Lyn Swett Miller is a micro-climate photographer living in Quechee, Vermont. She has spent the past fifteen years trying to figure out what it takes for a suburban family of four to live sustainably. A founding member of the Sustainable Hanover, NH Committee, Miller found a voice for her activism through photography. Over time, compost became her muse and metaphor. Whether at the landfill or in her back yard, she creates intimate visual meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal.

A lifelong photographer, Miller started taking her photography seriously after her children encouraged her to post her compost photographs online. “You could sell these,” her kids told her in 2015. Since then, she has cultivated a daily photography practice, participated in numerous portfolio reviews, including Filter Photo (2022), New England Portfolio Review (2022), LACP Exposure Review (2023, 2024), and Photo NOLA (2024), and taken multiple portfolio development workshops through Maine Media and The Griffin Museum of Photography.

For the past two years, Miller has been an active participant in the Kinship Photography Collective. After leading the Re-imagining Loss & Grief practice group in 2024, she created an online ‘journal’ of the group’s work. She is now a member of the leadership team with whom she helped launch their theme for 2025-26: Elementals.

Miller’s Substack newsletter, 13 Tons of Love, offers an ongoing visual 'conversation' in which she explores the wonders of transformation and renewal at the convergence of compost, climate & creativity. As with all her work, it is deeply personal and is as much about the process as the product.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Miller has a BA in Art History from Harvard College (1988), a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Virginia (1995), and a Masters in Teaching from The Upper Valley Educator’s Institute (2012). While she thought teaching Social Studies was her calling, Miller was overwhelmed by being emotionally present for both her students and her family. She chose family. And it was her family that encouraged her to dive deeper into photography. 

Miller works from her studio at AVA Gallery & Arts Center in Lebanon, NH.