Camille Seaman’s first sighting
of the massive icebergs adrift off the coast of Antarctica left her in awe of their immense scale and beauty—so much so that she began photographing them as if making portraits in an attempt to capture their unique personalities. Since that time, Seaman has embarked on a unique and personal journey, one that has enabled her to create a visual record of the fragile environments of the Earth's polar regions.
Seaman’s evocative photographs from her three series, The Last Iceberg, The Last Iceberg II and Dark Ice, chronicle just a handful of the thousands of icebergs produced annually by the continual change and movement of the ice caps.
In 2007, Seaman continued her quest to explore subjects in nature that illustrate the interconnectivity of life by stalking supercells, the large, long-lasting thunderstorms responsible for producing spectacular tornadoes, hailstorms, and other dangerous winds.
At times spanning fifty miles and towering as high as 65,000 feet, the clouds Seaman photographed were often large enough to block daylight. But she sees them as more complex than simply a source of destruction, and comments "in that force is also creation."
