Camille Seaman (born 1969) is an American photographer who applies portraiture strategies to capture the changing natural environment. Her work mainly concerns the polar regions, where she captures the effects of

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, thus merging the realms of science and art. She is of Native American and African-American descent through her father and mother respectively.

Background

Camille Seaman was born to a Shinnecock father and African-American mother in 1969. She studied photography with

Jan Groover Jan Groover (April 24, 1943 – January 1, 2012) was an American photographer. She received numerous one-person shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which holds some of her work in its permanent collection. Early life Groo ...

at the

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, graduating in 1992.

Work

Seaman reached wider attention with the production of her 2003 series of photographs of the

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island of

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. Since then, her work has continued to engage with the effects of

through the depiction of icebergs, storms and other natural phenomena. Regarding a major exhibition mounted at the

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, Ralph J. Cicerone noted that the Academy had two goals in mind, "to encourage wider appreciation of her artistry and to stimulate focused thought about the important roles that ice formations play in climatic change." For her work merging science with art, Seaman was named a TED Senior Fellow and profiled in

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and on ''

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'' "Lens" photojournalism blog. In 2014, Seaman received a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at

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Awards and recognition

In 2006, Seaman was granted a

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Award, and in 2007 she was awarded a Critical Mass Top Monograph Award by the nonprofit organizatio
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Her work has been published in ''

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'',

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, ''

'' and

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. In 2019, two of her photographs were added to the Native American Art Collection of the

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Solo exhibitions

* 2008: The Last Iceberg,

External links

Icebergs frozen in Time by a Portraitist
by James Estrin
Chasing Danger, Capturing Beauty
by James Estrin
Camille Seaman's Profile and Talks
for TED {{DEFAULTSORT:Seaman, Camille 1969 births Living people

Background

Work

Awards and recognition

Solo exhibitions

Further reading

External links