Shane Thomas McMillan
Photographer / Based in Berlin, Germany
Shane Thomas McMillan is a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator from western Montana. From 2005 to 2010 he studied journalism, German and international development at the University of Montana....
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Shane Thomas McMillan is a Berlin-based documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator from western Montana. From 2005 to 2010 he studied journalism, German and international development at the University of Montana. In 2007, he studied abroad at the University of Ghana, travelling and documenting the region extensively.
After graduation Shane moved to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010. During that year he learned filmmaking by working on projects with Autofocus e.V. while also doing an internship as a photographer at the Associated Press.
After graduation Shane moved to Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship in 2010. During that year he learned filmmaking by working on projects with Autofocus e.V. while also doing an internship as a photographer at the Associated Press.
Shane now works as a freelance photojournalist and as creative lead on projects based around the topics of human rights, refugees, and cultural identity. From 2014 to 2015 Shane taught documentary photography and filmmaking at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, Indian Country Today, Slate, and PRI's The World.