This is taken from previously published content on my work: My work is in part a survey of the American Southwest, as I traveled through it and photographed the Copper mining communities, Silver and Yellowcake mining communities throughout Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas and the Mercury mines of Terlingua in South Texas. This project was supported in part by the Tucson Council on the Arts and takes the viewer on a visual journey of the Southwest and document’s some of the most beautiful desert landscape’s, and compelling social documentary work of the Southwest’s inhabitant’s and serves as a creative documentary, fine art photography, conceptual photography. Part travelogue, part journey into a unique region of America also deeply impacted by global warming, wild fires, severe heat and draught effecting it’s inhabitant’s and further adding to the complexities of survival in this region of America where Camille lived for most of her adult life. In fact she lived for a decade in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico where she insists that just opening the door to her beautiful property was like stepping inside of a stunning outdoor living virtual studio as evidenced by her breathtaking images (“The Secret Life Of The Desert Ecosystem) where Camille actually made the images in response to the epic regional ongoing draught, where to emphasize the secret ecosystem’s urgent necessity for water so that the complex waterways beneath the earth can function as it is is the key to understanding this fragile, complex yet due to the severity of global warming, there is a looming threat to these fragile life systems who call the underbelly of the earth home.

Previously published volumes of my work were published by Art On World in February of 2022. “Camille’s stunning desert scapes with seemingly large adjacent reflecting pools of water, (the water is actually magically added, so all of the the dramatic desert and sky scapes are in actuality bare). By adding the reflections of water one is reminded of life beneath the earth’s core, the secret life of the desert eco system, and the dramatic yet static beauty of the rugged, still landscapes that without the mirroring effects of the earth reflecting it’s projected imagined beauty back to the viewer that invokes nature’s way of narcissus from greek mythology, which is why the work is so powerful. The desert floor may seem to indicate that there is no more life there, instead it is full of life systems and multiple underwater tunnels containing myriad living creatures who depend on rain water that saturates the earth and seeps into the ground to sustain abundant lifecycles. Yet with years and years of draught these fragile life systems are threatened to looming extinction. The myriad under earth living beings from otters to reptiles and beyond are so rich and their lives are so complex and dependent on water to sustain them. With over a thousand different species living beneath the earth’s core these inhabitant’s, much like human’s are dependent on water to survive and some of my work in this region emphasizes the socioeconomic and environmental challenges endemic to this segment of the America’s. As the planet continues to heat up and temperatures are on the rise everywhere there is an urgency for action like never before.

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