Tammy Cromer-Campbell

Tammy Cromer-Campbell (born 1960) is an award winning American photographer, specializing in social documentary photos. She is also a speaker and has published books of photos. Cromer-Campbell’s photographs have been featured in Foto Mundo, CameraArts, and CNN.
Education
Cromer-Campbell has an Associates of Applied Arts degree in Commercial Photography from Kilgore College, Kilgore. She also studied under O. Rufus Lovett. She participated in workshops from photography masters including Ruth Bernhard, Keith Carter, Michael Kenna, Arnold Newman and John Sexton.
Books and movies
Cromer-Campbell’s book Fruit of the Orchard: Environmental Justice in East Texas, was published in 2006 by the University of North Texas Press. Reviews of the book appeared in The Dallas Morning News, PhotoTechniques Magazine, among others.
Cromer-Campbell made a documentary entitled Environmental Justice and Dying for Profit. They were included in SWAMP/Fotofest’s Short Films by Texas Filmmakers in 2008 and 2010.
Other works of hers have been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museet for Fotocunst, Belgium, and others.
Awards and Acclaim
Fruit of the Orchard: Environmental Justice in East Texas has been the recipient of three awards: 1) Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris (2007) and 2) First place in Entertainment & Culture, Green Dot Awards (2008). 3) In 1999, she received the first ever cash grant from Blue Earth Alliances.
In 2009 Cromer-Campbell became the National Women's History Project Honoree for the Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet. In the same year she was selected as one of eight international photographers that use a Holga camera as a featured artist on holgainspire.com.
Appointments
Cromer-Campbell was Vice President Statewide on the Texas Photographic Society’s Executive Board. In 2008, she was an Imagemaker presenter at the Society for Photographic Educators National Convention, Denver, Colorado.

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