Camille Seaman

Artist, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Photographer, World traveler

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, The New York TimesSunday magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Mens Journal, 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. She is a TED Senior Fellow (2013) as well as a Stanford Knight Fellow 2013-14.

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.

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.

Creativity, explorer, Extreme Photography, Exploration, creativity, Polar Environments, Master of Light

knitting, surfing, making anything with my hands. I am a compulsive creative.