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Documenting Human Consequences at Earth’s Poles with Photographer @camilleseaman

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California-based photographer Camille Seaman (@camilleseaman) says standing on sea ice is exhilarating — and squeaky. “It’s like Styrofoam,” she says. Camille spent a decade journeying to the polar regions, capturing towering walls of ice emerging from the stillness of hostile environments and solitary “bergy bits,” broken pieces of icebergs adrift at sea. “When I photograph an iceberg, I’m not photographing an inanimate object,” Camille says. “I’m photographing the water that is ours and our relationship to it.” It’s been nearly five years since Camille has been to either polar region — she also photographs storms in the US — but she plans to return to Antarctica next year. “I’m nervous about what I’m going to find,” she says, noting that while she didn’t set out to document evidence of climate change, her travels have opened her eyes to humans’ global impact — a lesson her grandfather taught her when she was just a girl, after she was caught pulling leaves off a branch. “Very gently he said, ‘You think you can do what you want to that tree,’” she recalls. “‘If you think that you can live separate from that tree, see how long you can hold your breath.’ You cannot just do what you want to something and expect no consequences. Whether I’m photographing icebergs or storms, I’m always aware of that relationship.”

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