Liz Miller Kovacs is a Los Angeles-born photographer and artist based in Berlin. At age 17, she began taking photos with a vintage 35mm camera, but photography only became her primary focus in the past five years.

Her Hungarian grandfather and uncle were immigrant coal miners who passed away when she was a child; her curiosity about their lives sparked her interest in mining communities.

Since 2020, Liz has been studying, exploring and capturing landscapes altered by industry. Her practice combines analogue and digital photography, encompassing research, documentation, and creative self-portraiture.

In 2024, she started working with the NGO SOS Orinoco on a documentary film about mining in South America. Currently, she is working with Aboriginal and mining communities in Western Australia.

Liz's work has been a finalist or shortlisted twelve times over the past three years, including for the Aesthetica Art Prize, the Kolga Award and Belfast Photo Festival, where she received a "Highly Commended" distinction. She took third place at the Sarajevo Photography Festival and won Foto Slovo's Gold Medal for Environmental and Climate Photos. Her photos have been exhibited at Earth Photo, OKO Festival Bohinj, and Kranj Foto Fest, and her projects are supported by grants from Culture Moves Europe, the Goldfields Arts Centre and the Berlin Senate for Culture and Community. Her work has appeared in LENSCRATCH, Musée, Aesthetica, Der Greif, Design Boom, Euronews, Town & Country and more.