Jane Fulton Alt has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Alt is the recipient of numerous awards.  Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, New Orleans Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American History, Beinecke Library at Yale University, Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, De Paul University Art Museum, Southwest Museum of Photography and the collections of William Hunt and Rick and Deann Bayless. Alt is the recipient of the 2007 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award and the 2007-2009 Ragdale Foundation Fellowships. Her most recent work on Hurricane Katrina has been published in a book entitled Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward.

Alt’s photographs explore universal issues of humanity, reflecting an interest in the mysteries of life and the non-material world. Her photographs ask us to consider issues of love, loss, and spirituality, which transcend notions of race, religion and culture.

 

While accompanying restoration ecologists on prescribed prairie burns, I am drawn to the ephemeral quality of a single moment when life and death do not seem opposed to each other, but are parts of a single process to be accepted as a whole.

Controlled burns imitate naturally occurring fires by removing accumulated dead vegetation and releasing seeds from dormancy. By opening the woodlands to more sunlight, the fires prepare the soil for new spring growth, and the cycle of renewal continues.

 

Since 2003, Camille Seaman has concentrated on photographing the fragile environment of the Polar Regions. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic Magazine, Italian Geo, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal, Camera Arts, Issues, PDN, and American Photo, among others. Her photographs have received many awards including a National Geographic Award, 2006; and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award, 2007. In 2008 she was honored with a one-person exhibition, “The Last Iceberg,” at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC.  She frequently leads photographic and self-publishing workshops.  Seaman was born in 1969 to a Native American  (Shinnecock tribe) father and African American mother.  She graduated in 1992 from the State University of New York at Purchase, where she studied photography with Jan Groover, and has since taken master workshops with Steve McCurry, Sebastiao Salgado and Paul Fusco.