Camille Seaman
Photographer
TED Senior Fellow Camille Seaman photographs big ice and big clouds.
Why you should listen
Camille Seaman takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple formats. Since 2003, her work has concentrated on the fragile environment of the polar regions. Her current project concerns the beauty of natural environments in Siberia.
Seaman's photographs have been published in Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal and more, 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. In 2008, she was honored with a one-person exhibition, The Last Iceberg, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
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6 public art projects that make climate change up close and personal
October 19, 2020
The planet is in peril, and the time to act is now. Meet 8 TED Fellows who are spreading the message through their art.
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Do you speak storm-chasing?
July 3, 2014
Photographer Camille Seaman began chasing storms in 2008. Little did she know that she was joining a select club, with its own habits and language. Here, she shares some of the lingo you might need to get by in this world -- and some of her latest images.
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Melting Away: Portraits of polar ice with personality
May 2, 2014
For many of us, the climate crisis is a giant social, economic and environmental specter; for photographer Camille Seaman, it's personal. Take a look at her beautiful pictures of icebergs and glaciers, whose melting magnificence she's been documenting for the past decade.
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