Chicago-based photographer Sandro Miller was lying in bed at home, recuperating from treatment for stage IV head, neck, and throat cancer. Pain-numbing morphine might have been responsible for his slightly altered state. Probably better, he thought, not to be in the reality of the situation anyway. It was a very cold day in the winter of 2012. Miller’s eyes wandered around the guest room of his studio and living space, adorned with photographs from his extensive collection.