Situated in the heart of the New Forest, the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum is home to around 500 rare and exotic motorcycles from all over the world. Sammy Miller MBE is a 11 times British Trials Motorcycle Champion and winner of over 1400 competition events across various disciplines. Throughout his career spanning 8 decades, Sammy still managed to find the time to restore rare and interesting motorcycles, which he kept as a private collection until 1980 when he opened his collection to the public… the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum was born!
I was asked to photograph by the museum’s creative agency Juice, they needed imagery for a new website and marketing materials to promote the business. The brief was to not only showcase each individual area of the museum, but to also creatively capture details and illustrate the ‘quirkiness’ of its interior and pieces. It has to be said the museum was a visual feast, memorabilia at every turn, I almost didn’t know where to start!
