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About Me

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 Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal, Camera Arts, Issues, PDN, and American Photo and she has self-published many books on themes like “My China” and “Melting Away: Polar Images” through Fastback Creative Books, a company that she co-founded. 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 lives in Berkeley, 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. Her current project (2008) concerns the beauty of natural environments in Siberia.

Location:
United States, Berkeley, CA
Current role:
Photogapher
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Creativity, Extreme Photography, Exploration, creativity, Polar Environments
I am:
Artist, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Photographer, World traveler
Languages:
English
My website links:
Camille Seaman, www.camilleseaman.com
TED conferences attended:
TED2013, TED2011
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I'm passionate about

Showing people with my photographs that we are all connected, that human are not separate from nature and that we must find ways to appreciate our only home in this Solar System.

An idea worth spreading

Showing people with my photographs that we are all connected, that human are not separate from nature and that we must find ways to appreciate our only home in this Solar System. We each have a unique skill and opportunity to use that skill.

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limitless possibility

People don't know that I'm good at

knitting, surfing, making anything with my hands

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    A reply on Talk: Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice

    Jun 29 2011: As a TED fellow we are only given 4 minutes to speak about what we do, who we are and what is important to us. I felt that spending that time to speak about something like climate change would have been redundant as so many other amazing people have spoken about that topic. instead I tried to share perhaps my unique experience and perspective within the Polar Regions.
    I too would have liked more time...But I did the best that I could with the time and experience that I had.
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    A reply on Talk: Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice

    Jun 29 2011: Qeqetarsuaq
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    A reply on Talk: Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice

    Jun 28 2011: Alexander I appreciate your point of view, but I must ask you have ever spent time with an iceberg? Life exists in everything on this planet, and my point is to remind us HUMANS that we are integrally linked to all the other life forms and systems on this earth. we cannot exist all by ourself, we rely on air, water and many other intangibles. An iceberg is part of our process... and to say they are not alive is to say that we are not either.
    If what you reference in your remark is that and iceberg is not sentient that is a whole other story.
    :-)

  • A reply on Talk: Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice

    Jun 22 2011: my pleasure

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