23 Jan 2025 | GEO@CSPS lecture | Camille Seaman

Afro-Indigenous expedition photographer Camille Seaman will share her relationship with rapidly changing landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctic through her portrait photography. She takes us through her process and two decades documenting the impacts of global warming and understanding our interconnected relationships with nature.

For more than two decades Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions through the lens of portraiture rather than landscape. As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic, Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of global warming. Seaman's perspective of the landscape is entwined with her Afro-Indigenous (Shinnecock-Montaukett) identity, which taught her from an early age to recognize all living beings—trees, spiders, fish, and even ice—as individual members of one, enormous family. Viewing human beings as fundamentally interconnected to nature, Seaman approaches photographing icebergs “as if I am making portraits of my ancestors,” each one with a distinct history, personality, and set of social relationships. Her dynamic images embed her subjects in an enduring, nourishing, but increasingly strained relationship with their environment—of which humans are an integral part.

Thursday 23 January 2025 | 15:30 - 17:00 | Gaia 2 | Gaia building Wageningen Campus | join online: Link to online meeting