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CAMILLE SEAMAN
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THE LAST ICEBERG
Copyright © Camille Seaman / All rights reserved
Camille Seaman was born in 1969 to a Native American (Shinnecock
tribe) father and African American mother. She graduated in 1992 from the State
University of New York at Purchase, where she studied photography with Jan
Groover and has since taken master workshops with Steve McCurry, Sebastiao
Salgado, and Paul Fusco. Her photographs have been published in National
Geographic Magazine, Italian Geo, German Geo, Time, The
New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Zeit
Wissen, Camera Arts, Issues, and American Photo among
many others. Her photographs have received many awards including a National
Geographic Award, 2006, and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award, 2007. In
2008 she held a one-person exhibition, “The Last Iceberg” at the National
Academy of Sciences, Washington DC.
Camille Seaman lives in Emeryville, California, and
takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple
formats. She works in a documentary/fine art tradition and since 2003 has
concentrated on the fragile environment of the Polar Regions. The publisher of
her book The Last Iceberg (photolucida, Portland, OR, 2008) writes: “It is
hardly possible to look at Camille Seaman’s icebergs as inert or insentient.
Therein lies the gift these images bestow. Though they are made of ice, these
massifs of the sea are as diverse and distinct as any terrestrial form. The
tabular mesas broken off from the Weddell Ice Shelf are white glazed deserts.
The crystal pinnacles cast off from Greenland seem to be mountaintops set
adrift. Icebergs known as drydocks can have arches and bridges carved by rain
and wind. Unstable pinnacles can invert themselves as they melt above sea line,
creating localized tidal waves that can easily swamp a nearby boat”.
Website : www.camilleseaman.com
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