The Calm before The Storm:
Human Interactions with the Natural Landscape
Monday, January 30 – Sunday, May 13, 2012 // Knight Gallery

Luminaries Lecture Series: Artists Behind the Viewfinder
Camille Seaman, Distinguished Lecturer
Thursday, March 22 at 7pm
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Join Fine Art Polar Photographer Camille Seaman for an inspiring evening of stories about her adventures and insights as she has traveled between both poles for the last twelve years documenting an other worldly beauty. Many people often wonder what can one person do to help save this place we call our home, Camille answers this question from the perspective of a person born of both an indigenous culture and a modern world. Camille Seaman (Shinnecock Tribe b.1969) is an Award winning American photographer best known for her evocative Polar images. Capturing the essence of awe and beauty of indigenous cultures and environments, in a sophisticated documentary/fine art tradition is her trademark.  Seaman’s work has been exhibited and published in magazines internationally.


Kathleen Robbins, Bill Brown, Courtesy of Jennifer Schwartz Gallery

This exhibition continues the examination of man and his relationship with the environment, a photographic theme that began with the influential 1975 exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape. New Topographics rejected the 19th century romanticized view of the environment and focused on the intervention of industry—land transformed by human presence, directly and/or indirectly. Today, we are asking if this precarious relationship has gotten better, is currently at a standstill, or has gotten much worse? The Calm before The Storm includes Pipo Nguyen-duy, Camille Seaman, Eric Tomberlin, and Kathleen Robbins, photographers who are exploring the external landscape and who understand the paradoxes inherent in the juxtapositions of man and the natural environment. // FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC //