© 2007 All Rights Reserved. A Photographic Survey of the West by Award Winning Photographer Camille Ross.
Born in San Francisco, California 1964 Camille was raised between Rural Mississippi and Berkeley, California, which in part informed her vision. Her childhood was one of observer, of a stark chasm and duality among Anglo White Culture in contrast to African American and Native American cultural segregation.

This Body of Work in the West was supported in part by the Tucson Council on the Arts and takes the viewer on a tour of Migrant Miners, Immigrants and those who inhabit the landscape of the Copper Corridor and Yellow Cake mining districts throughout the Southwest, including Arizona and New Mexico where Camille lived for many years. The photographs explore the effects of extreme heat endemic to both person and place among the sparse expansions of wild desert. Camille photographs this sparse existence and frames each image in haunting isolation. Many of these photographs were softly painted in sepia brush strokes to accentuate the heat which for most of each year is often so unbearable it becomes surreal.
Camille is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art, she is an activist, exhibiting artist and photographic educator. She is the recipient of several grants including the New Mexico Council on Photography, the Tucson Council on the Arts and the International Women’s Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

She has photographed the three adjoining deserts from the Mojave to the Sonoran and then finally the Chihuahua Desert