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Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather, the Reckoning at Standing Rock\u2014a journey into the deep rich world of photographer Camille Seaman.

Born to a Native American father and African-American mother, Camille Seaman has been bearing witness and sounding the alarm through her powerful, other worldly photographs for more than 20 years.\xa0Her\xa0photographs and vivid stories document her journeys to the Arctic and Antarctic over the past two decades, her work as a storm chaser in the midwest, her documentation of the Standing Rock water protectors, and her ongoing project \u201cWe Are Still Here,\u201d\xa0photographing Indigenous people around the country, in all walks of life, along with messages to their future ancestors.

Camille was raised by her Shinnecock grandparents in Long Island and inspired by her grandfather\u2019s teachings about our interrelatedness with nature. She attended the \u201cFame\u201d High School of Music and Performing Arts in New York City, living from couch to couch, working as a bicycle message and a one-hour photo lab operator.\xa0\xa0Her award winning photographs have been published in\xa0National Geographic, Time, Newsweek and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. She is a\xa0TED Senior Fellow\xa0and a Stanford Knight Fellow, and she was honored with a one person exhibition, "The Last Iceberg" at the\xa0National Academy of Sciences\xa0in Washington D.C.

The Kitchen Sisters interviewed Camille Seaman as part of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\u2019s 2021 Season. Her imagery was featured at the Festival as part of a piece entitled MELT, a lament on climate change with music composed by Sean Shepherd.