PUBLISHED BOOKS

THE BIG CLOUD

The Big Cloud
by Camille Seaman
ISBN 9781616896638

10 × 8 IN (25.4 × 20.3 CM)
HARDCOVER
176 PAGES
125 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLICATION DATE: 5/1/2018
RIGHTS: WORLD 
ISBN: 9781616896638

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Our culture is addicted to weather: hourly forecasts, apps, radio, TV channels, alerts, warnings, and watches. And understandably---our food, clothing, livelihoods, and, increasingly, safety are tied directly to the weather and climate change. In The Big Cloud, photographer Camille Seaman stands in front of tornados, at the edges of lightning storms, and in pelting hail under pitch-black skies to capture supercells and mammatus clouds in their often sublime and terrifying splendor. In these awe-inspiring photographs, Seaman's work is a potent reminder that there is no art more dramatic, in scale or emotion, than that created by nature. The Big Cloud includes an introduction by award-winning New Yorker science writer and author Alan Burdick (Out of Eden, Why Time Flies).

Melting Away

A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions

Camille Seaman

ISBN 9781616892609

Publication date 11/15/2014

10.625 x 8.5 inches (27.0 x 21.6 cm), Hardcover

160 pages, 200 color illustrations

Rights: World;

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For ten years Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. As an expedition photographer aboard small ships in the Arctic and Antarctic, she has chronicled the accelerating effects of global warming on the jagged face of nearly fifty thousand icebergs. Seaman's unique perspective of the landscape is entwined with her Native American upbringing: she sees no two icebergs as alike; each responds to its environment uniquely, almost as if they were living beings. Through Seaman's lens, each towering chunk of ice, breathtakingly beautiful in layers of smoky gray and turquoise blue, takes on a distinct personality, giving her work the feel of majestic portraiture. Melting Away collects seventy-five of Seaman's most captivating photographs, life affirming images that reveal not only what we have already lost, but more importantly what we still have that is worth fighting to save.

• Includes short thematic essays and reflections with insight into Camille Seaman s own connection to the region

• Seaman is a TED Senior Fellow whose 2011 TED Talk has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times'

• Seaman s photographs have been published in numerous magazines, including National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek. Her photographs were showcased in a one-person show at Washington D.C.'s National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Camille Seaman lives in rural Ireland, and lectures globally about her work and experiences

THE LAST ICEBERG

No Longer Available:

(you may find a copy at one of my galleries)

The Last Iceberg.
Photographs by Camille Seaman. Text by Paul Hawken.
photolucida, Portland, OR, 2008. 64 pp., 29 color illustrations, 8½x10".

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It is hardly possible to look at Camille Seaman’s icebergs as inert or insentient. Therein lies the gift these images bestow. Though they are made of ice, these massifs of the sea are as diverse and distinct as any terrestrial form. The tabular mesas broken off from the Weddell Ice Shelf are white glazed deserts. The crystal pinnacles cast off from Greenland seem to be mountaintops set adrift. Icebergs known as dry docks can have arches and bridges carved by rain and wind. Unstable pinnacles can invert themselves as they melt above sea line, creating localized tidal waves that can easily swamp a nearby boat.