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Where The Driveway Ends, Photographer Dad Sees Hopes And Fears

Greg Miller's new series captures the vulnerability and peace of children as they quietly wait for their bus.

As children wait for their morning bus to school, photographer Greg Miller is there, too, capturing their solitude.

His subjects are young: Some of them are heading to classrooms where the days of the week and instructions on telling time decorate the walls. Waiting quietly for their bus, they trust they are safe.

Miller says he used to see his daughter's school day as "another lifetime," beginning at the end of his driveway and ending on her return home. Now, he says, as he watches her bus disappear down the road, he hopes her life doesn't end between those hours.

His recent series, , explores that terrible hope through capturing the quiet of children as they wait for their bus.

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