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me to do more. Then I started to enjoy it, and
I started to educate myself more,” she says.
Even though she was a one-woman show,
Holloman’s business evolved, and it became
apparent that she needed to formalize her
operation. “It was just me, and I got really
overloaded with all the work. I hired a studio
manager and then hired an image editor, and
then associates and a bookkeeper, and then
a full time image editor to keep up with the
work that the associates were doing,” she says.
Her business mushroomed to the point that
she eventually moved it out of her bedroom
and into her parents’ FROG (finished room
over the garage), and when it grew some
more, her enterprise spilled into the guest bedroom.
She started feeling the pinch of having
her employees reporting to her parents’ home
every day. “That’s when I decided I was going
to move, so we could have our own space,”
she says.
Each weekday, as her neighbors gather in
the shade of their porches, marking the passage
of time in rocking chairs, her employees
trickle up the sidewalk and through the front
door. The workday is sandwiched between
the hours of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. “I definitely try
to confine it because it’s out of my house,”
Holloman says.
The bungalow’s two front rooms, a living
room and a den, are home to her editing
suite, a command central for Millie Holloman
Photography. Each workday, the private areas
open to the public, swarming with staff members,
apprentices, interns and clients.
The hub of the home studio is the central
dining room and its centerpiece — a chandelier
under which Covington designed and
built an elevated round table surrounded
by woven wicker stools — where Holloman
conducts stand-up staff meetings or, after
hours, entertains dinner guests. Around the
periphery, her photographic portraits, framed
in pressed tin, lean against the picture rail
above a built-in, glazed cabinet that appears
as though it came with the house, another of
Covington’s custom creations.
The dining room opens into a renovated
kitchen equipped with a two-stage floating
island. The counters are covered in zebra
wood butcher block. A collection of vintage
tableware and cookbooks are stowed behind