Welcome To Native Light Photography. This Website Was Created In 2013 And Chronicles All of My Digital Photography As I transitioned From Analogue Photography To Digital And AI Photography. All The Images On This Website Were Created Using Cellphones, From Burners to iPhones. To Explore The Work Please Visit The Gallery And View The Projects, All Were Created Between 2007-2024. Thank You For Visiting This Popular Global Website That Often Gets 200 International Visitors A Week. Enjoy, If You Have Any Questions Or For Sales Inquiries Feel Free To Contact Me 732-640-6313 Camille@nativelightphotography.com

**Camille Ross: Identity, Memory, and Technological Experimentation**

*Critical text by Carmela Brunetti, Editor and Founder of ArtonWorld.com*

Camille Ross’s art stands out for the courage with which she tackles delicate and profound themes related to her identity and her cultural origins as a Native American women. Her creative journey is an introspective voyage that becomes a collective testimony—a poetic act of resistance capable of reclaiming the memory of ancestral roots through contemporary visual languages.

In her recent exhibition in Rome, the artist chose to work with artificial intelligence, creating a series of evocative works later printed on canvas. In these pieces, Camille Ross exorcises her personal experience and confronts the complex relationship with American identity, constructing images that merge symbolism, spirituality, and aesthetic research. Tradition and technology blend in a powerful balance, offering the viewer a deep reflection on the human condition and the layered nature of cultural identity.

Through digital experimentation, Ross creates a visual narrative that never loses its authenticity: each work is a fragment of personal history that becomes universal, a visual echo of a culture struggling not to be forgotten. Her compositions speak of diaspora, loss, and rebirth, using a refined language where AI is never used for its own sake but rather as a tool for introspection and transformation.

Her photographic books are equally fascinating and surprising, notable for their narrative strength and ability to evoke inner worlds, unspoken emotions, and forgotten symbols. Each volume is a visual journey that tells of resilient femininity, deep spirituality, and a continuous pursuit of beauty and truth. A visit to the artist’s official website is highly recommended to explore the full richness of her work and be captivated by the evocative power of her visual language.

Camille Ross powerfully and authentically represents a new generation of artists who, by embracing innovative tools such as artificial intelligence, are able to tell ancient stories in new forms—with a critical, poetic, and necessary gaze. Her work is a bridge between memory and the future, making an important contribution to the contemporary discourse on identity, inclusion, and the realization of marginalized cultures.

I work in analogue and digital photography and in AI, often blending some or all of three mediums together in addition to my own literature including creative writing, critical and theoretical photography essays and short stories depending on each project. Most of my work is fine art photography while some is documentary photography, some is conceptual and many are New Media such as Lady Criminals, Avatar, and Selfies. I have won awards for both my fine art analogue photography, (The New Mexico Council On Photography) and my digital documentary photography, (The Tucson Council On The Arts). While I’m well known for my creative use of cellphone apps, some images are created on Adobe Photoshop. You may notice my consistent use of raptors in the work especially in The Falconer’s and Native Light. These are a symbolic tribute to my ancestors and they serve as homages to their journey’s and their lifespans. From Mongolia to the Siberian Straits, to an Alaskan Coastal Tribe then to the Plains where I located one relative from the Lakota Sioux Reservation who fought in The Battle Of Wounded Knee. Then onto Oklahoma “Indian Country” as it was referred to for years to the Cherokee Nation where my great grandmother and all of her siblings were Cherokee Slaves, as her parents were as well. She had two daughters Ojanna and Oleta. Ojanna, my grandmother a Cherokee woman died before I could meet her as she was born in the early 1900’s. The use of eagles and ravens are commonly featured in both Native American life and art.

Member of DWEN, The National Association of Professional Women, Professional Photographers of America, College Art Association, Former Lifelong Member of the now (sadly) Closed Society for Photographic Education

THE FALCONER’S © 2024 Camille Ross

COLOMBIA © 2010 Camille Ross