“You cannot fake time.” This wisdom was told to me in the early days of my photo career. I understood what it meant: that if you want to make a true document of a place or subject, you must put in that time. I have been fortunate enough to have been working in Antarctica since 2004, almost every year until the coronavirus pandemic happened. When I left Antarctica in February of 2020, I had no idea that I might not ever make it back due to a global pandemic.
I fell in love almost 20 years ago when I saw my first iceberg on the Weddell Sea. Nothing boggles the mind as easily as beholding a massive tabular iceberg that renders your ship insignificant. If you are lucky, the light will kiss those epic drifting colossuses — it’s a sort of magic.
It was the longest night of the year here on the Weddell Sea. On the solstice, the sunset and sunrise happen side by side on the horizon — only two hours apart. The colors of the sunset merged into the colors of the sunrise. On this particular occasion we had windless, glassy conditions. It felt surreal — the neon colors, the symmetry, and the pieces of ice — like a dream on a distant planet.
Artist Bios
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Camille Seaman
Photographer Camille Seaman believes in capturing images that articulate how humans are not separate from nature. Born to a Native American father and African American mother, Seaman’s sense of connection with nature stems from the influence of her Shinnecock Indian grandfather on Long Island, New York. She graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase where she studied photography with Jan Groover and John Cohen. She has spent the last two decades documenting the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth’s polar regions — from South Georgia, the Falkland Islands, and below the Antarctic Circle, to Greenland, Canada, and beyond. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic. Her work has also appeared in Outside, TIME, the New York Times Magazine, American Photo, and German GEO, among other outlets. Seaman has been a TED Senior Fellow since 2013, and was also named a Stanford Knight Fellow and a Cinereach Filmmaker in Residence Fellow. She leads photographic workshops all over the globe, and enjoys inspiring others to develop a unique visual voice.
Organizations
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Arts Brookfield
Arts Brookfield supports innovation in music, dance, theater, film, and visual art presented for free in the public spaces of Brookfield Properties, creating vibrant and valued environments for the people who work and live there every day.
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
A Matter of Time: Returning to Antarctica in the time of Covid
Featuring: Camille Seaman
Curated by: Sam Barzilay
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