Camille Seaman
Biography
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, Men's Journal, Seed, Camera Arts, Issues, PDN, and American Photo among many others, She frequently leads photographic and self-publishing workshops. Her photographs have received many awards including: a National Geographic Award, 2006; and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award, 2007. In 2008 she was honored with a one-person exhibition, “The Last Iceberg” at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. Camille Seaman 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.
https://www.camilleseaman.com/
Articles
Captivating Photographs of Storm Clouds by Camille Seaman Show Nature’s Power This is colossal 2018
How Camille Seaman Became a Storm Chaser Outside Magazine June 2018
A Storm Chaser’s Unforgiving View of the Sky New Yorker 2018
The Lucid Beauty and Vanishing Reality of Polar Ice Sierra Club Magazine June 2018
THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine 2017
CHASING THE STORM the bod edit 2018
Follow These 20 Photographers to Understand the World’s Most Important Issues Artsy 2016
The Future Is Female and These 40 Women Are Proof Outside Magazine 2017
Diary of a Storm Chaser Wall Street Journal 2018
Lightnings, hurricanes, tornados and supercells by storm chaser Camille Seaman Daily Telegraph 2015
The only photos you need to see from the past month Dazed 2018
Icebergs Frozen in Time by a Portraitist NY Times 2012
How to Walk in a Beautiful Way in an Age of Climate Change Sierra Club Magazine June 2018
Melting Away: Stunning Photos of Disappearing Icebergs Time Magazine 2014
Polar ice loss 'painful to see' for photographer Camille Seaman CBC 2015
Majestic Images of Icebergs That Won't Survive Climate Change New Republic 2014
BEAUTIFUL POLAR PHOTOS TELL A HAUNTING STORY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Wired 2014
Award-Winning Photographer on Chasing America’s Most Wicked Storms RealClearLife 2018
What it’s like to live your life as a storm chaser Dazed 2018
Camille Seaman: All My Ancestors East End Beacon 2018
Photographing the Unbridled Power of a Supercell Storm Atlas Obscura 2018
An otherworldy Arctic landscape, in a beautiful and troubling exhibit Boston Globe 2018
Brown Arts Initiative Organizes Symposium on Arts and Environment Featuring Leading-Edge Artists, Scientists, & Scholars ArtFix Daily 2018
The Larsen C Ice Shelf Collapse Is Just the Beginning—Antarctica Is Melting National Geographic 2017
Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives NY Times 2018
CLIMATE CHANGE PUTS ICEBERG PHOTOS EN VOGUE Wired 2010
Storm-Chasing Photographer Captures Earth's Power and Beauty Mashable 2013
The Limit Does Not Exist: Camille Seaman On Following The Women Forbes Magazine 2016
Polar regions helped photographer meet 'her planet' University of Delaware 2008
Melting Away: A Decade of Arctic and Antarctic Photography by Camille Seaman Petapixel 2014
The Arctic's devastating transformation MSNBC 2014
The Earth Academy Stanford University John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship 2014
John S. Knight Talk: Camille Seaman video 2014
Lovely Sky Monsters . The Atlantic 2012
A Photographer Documents Climate Change in the Arctic . Discover magazine 2014
Stunning storm clouds CBS News
Photography of extremes Lansing City Pulse Michigan University Lansing Art Gallery
These Photos Capture a Decade of Change at Earth’s Poles. Smithsonian Magazine 2014
A look back at the stand at Standing Rock (article and video) Reveal News 2017
The Big Cloud by Camille Seaman Luca Bacchetti 2012
We Are Still Here Photo Essay Global Oneness Project
Q&A: Iceberg imager Nature 2012
'Vanishing Ice' Makes Beautiful Bid For Action on Climate Change KQUED San Francisco 2016
'The Big Cloud,' one photographer's obsession with the drama in our skies LA Times 2018
Camille Seaman: photographing the disappearing Arctic The Ecologist 2011
Icebergs by Camille Seaman BBC4 2013
Camille Seaman: We All Belong to the Earth Conversations.org 2013
CAMILLE SEAMAN: THE BIG CLOUD Lenscratch 2013
camille seaman captures the beauty of supercell storms Designboom 2012
CAMILLE SEAMAN Connection and Purpose Lecture Video The Iris Nights Lecture, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles 2010
Expedition photographer Camille Seaman's stunning images of Antarctica shine a spotlight on global warming The Independent 2014
The Most Compelling Photos of Earth National Geographic 2018
A photographers eye on the artic reveals the natural Beauty of ice. Coolhunting 2011
INTERVIEW WITH CAMILLE SEAMAN ND Magazine 2012
Portrait of a Landscape Earth Island Journal 2014
camille seaman to speak on standing rock Clark University 2017
Ms. Seaman's sense of ice Der Speigel 2015
Photographing Big, Fluffy, Ominous Clouds with Camille Seaman The Photoblographer 2013
Camille Seaman’s Epic Nature Photography Trendland 2013
Photography and Nature: Camille Seaman at TED 2013 National Geographic 2013
Finding beauty in violent storms CNN 2012
We Are Still Here, Camille Seaman’s Portrait Photography from Oceti Sakowin C Magazine 2017
Specialist Carry :: Storm Chaser Camille Seaman Carryology 2017
The Antarctic's Floating Ice Shelves Are Melting At an Alarming Rate Time Magazine 2015
We must listen to the Dakota Access pipeline protesters, not punish them Mark Ruffalo The Guardian 2016
The Fragile Beauty of Earth's Polar Regions Discover Magazine 2014
Mother Nature: The Omnipotent Huffington Post 2013
Our Terrible, Beautiful, Powerful Selves Huffington Post 2017
The Constant of Change: Finding Meaning in Storms Huffington Post 2013
Tornado in female US photographer's eyes Global Times China 2012
Art Chronicles Glaciers As They Disappear Smithsonian 2013
Learning from Camille Seaman's stunning photographs Reckonings 2017 John Roosevelt Boettiger
Documenting The Big Melt Medium 2018
Do you speak storm-chasing? TED.com 2014
Fact-Free Science NY Times 2011
"Which photographer would you most like to (a) work with and (b) talent spot
a: I love Nadav Kander’s work, and found a strong connection with him when I got to meet him in person at Prix Pictet this year. Would love to do a project with him someday.
b: Camille Seaman. Her iceberg images bring forth grief in a way that speaks volumes to me." Chris Jordan Q&A Telegraph 2011
Awards
2013 TED Senior Fellow 2013
2011 TED Fellow 2011
2010 M/V Fram Photographer in Residence in the Svalbard May-July
2010 M/V Fram Photographer in Residence in the Antarctic Peninsula February 2010
2009 M/V Fram Photographer in Residence in the West Greenland August-October
2009 M/V Polarlys Artist in Residence for Hurtigruten, Norway February 2009
2008 M/V Fram Photographer in Residence in the Antarctic Peninsula Nov. 28- Dec.22
2008 M/V Prince Albert II Artist in Residence for Silversea Cruises, Arctic 2008 Season
2007 International Photography Awards
2007 M/V Orlova Artist in Residence for Quark Expeditions, Antarctica 2007/2008 Season
2007 SFCP Review Alumni
2007 Critical Mass Top Monograph Award
2006 National Geographic Award
2006 Eddie Adams Barnstorm Alumni
2006 International Photography Awards
2006 SFCP Review Alumni
2006 Nikon.Net Editor’s Choice Award
2005 International Photography Awards
2004 Photolife Magazine
HP/New Yorker Magazine
Solo Shows
2012 The Last Iceberg: Photographs of Camille Seaman, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Chroma Gallery, Charlottesville, VA June 1-30, 2012
2011 The Last Iceberg: Photographs of Camille Seaman, Corden Potts Gallery San Francisco, CA 3 March-2 April
2010 The Last Iceberg: Luxembourg Exhibition, Abbaye de Neumunster 28 rue Munster, Luxembourg, Grund 25-28 November
2010 The Last Iceberg: Paris Exhibition, 12, rue d’Alger on Nov. 17-25
2009 The Big Cloud & The Last Iceberg, Hans Alf Gallery, Flæsketorvet 26-28, 1711 København V. Through Dec 2009
2009 Photographs of Camille Seaman from the series, The Last Iceberg. Hoopers Gallery, London, UK May 14, 2009 - July 3, 2009
2009 The Last Iceberg: Photographs of Camille Seaman from the series, The Last Iceberg. OpenShutter Gallery, Durango, CO 15 April, 2009 - May 30, 2009
2008 University of Delaware Museum Presents: The Last Iceberg, September 9 thru December 7th 2008
2008 Where There Should be Ice: Photographs of Camille Seaman from the series, The Last Iceberg. Candace Dwan Gallery,New York, New York, May 14 - June 21, 2008
2008 The Last Iceberg, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana April 1- May 5, 2008
2008 The Last Iceberg, at the National Academy of Sciences, The Rotunda Gallery, Washington DC March 2 - June 1, 2008
2007 The Last Iceberg, at the National Academy of Sciences, Keck Building, Washington DC December 1, 2007 - March 1, 2008
Group Shows
2012 The Calm Before The Storm: Human Interactions with the Natural Landscape January 30 – May 13, 2012 // Knight Gallery of Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2012 Portfolio II: Gallery Artists, Corden Potts Gallery , San Francisco, CA , February 2012
2011 To The Ends of The Earth, Adamson Gallery, Washington DC, November 2011
2009
2008 Polar Attractions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 28, 2008 - June 07, 2009
2008 Blue Earth Alliance Group Show, City Hall Lobby Gallery & Anne Focke Gallery, Seattle, Washing ton, April 22-June 9, 2008
2008 Snowbound & The Last Iceberg, Photographic Center of the Northwest, Seattle, Washing ton, January 20-February 27, 2008
2007 Blue Earth Alliance Photo Exhibit: Photographs That Make a Difference, TCC Photo Gallery - Longview, Texas, October 13 – December 31, 2007