July 11, 2012
Icebergs Frozen in Time by a Portraitist

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Camille Seaman, an insightful portraitist, turned her lens on icebergs, which she sees as living, feeling creatures or persons. “There’s so many unique personalities. There’s a sadness to them.”

The project started long before she saw her first iceberg. When she was a young child, in Suffolk County on Long Island, N.Y., her grandfather, Lester Redfield Seaman, tutored her in how her people, the Shinnecock tribe, saw the natural world around them.

He would take Ms. Seaman and her younger brother, Shane, into the woods and “teach us how to not just see a tree, but to recognize the tree as an individual.”

“To really see its face, its shape in the bark, how its branches go, so that you knew that tree, almost like you know your face, and so that you would never be lost because you would recognize them as sort of your relatives,” she said.