Seaman decided to stop traveling by ship to reach these far-flung places, because doing so was contributing to the problem of global warming.īut the Norwegian ferry company Hurtigruten, which means “fast route” or “quick way” in Norwegian, has renewed her faith that things might be changing, albeit slowly. In 2011, after spending almost 10 years exploring the two poles for what eventually became her book “Melting Away, A Ten Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions,” Ms. “It looked like it might be a ship, but it was a whale breaching! So, today has been quite a good day!” Earlier that day, she had seen something unidentifiable. “I just happened to be looking out at the horizon and I saw this…thing come out of the water,” she says. “Last night I saw hundreds of dolphins and I radioed - We have dolphins at ten o’clock…eleven….twelve - I was like - They’re everywhere!” Ms. “I have to be up on the bow of the ship watching for…creatures,” Ms.
The reason she can’t talk long today is that she’s on deck watch. On the day I spoke with her she had just reached Peru.įrom Peru to Ecuador, through the Panama Canal to Costa Rica, on to Miami, where she disembarks, eventually the ship will continue north and make its way back to its home in Svalbard, Norway, in the Arctic. Seaman because she is teaching photography seminars on board a Norwegian vessel that has been wending its way north on the powerfully cold Humbolt Current, which runs from The Antarctic through Chile, for the past two months. It was a little difficult to talk with Ms. Our bodies are made of the material of this place.” “In the end we are all on this planet together.
Seaman, whose mother is of African-American lineage and whose father is from the Shinnecock Nation. I found the only category I felt comfortable in was as Earthling,” said Ms. “Growing up as a child of a mixed-race marriage, I did not fit in any of the boxes people seemed to want to place me in. “What does it mean to be a good ancestor? What does it mean to be a citizen of Earth?,” Camille Seaman, a polar photographer, storm chaser, explorer, writer, mother, and senior TED Fellow often asks herself. Camille Seaman’s “Looking at the Icebergs Near Franklin Island, The Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2006” Camille Seaman: All My Ancestors
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