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WILLIAM CAMPBELL

........William Campbell is an independent producer, videographer, photojournalist and president of Homefire Productions, Inc., based in  Livingston, Montana.

Campbell , a long time contact photographer for Time Magazine has also developed, shot and produced TV segments for NOW on PBS, NBC, ABC Nightline, CNN, and the National Geographic Channel.   He has shot and produced two one-hour documentaries,  "Season of the Grizzly"(2003) and "Sole Survivors:  The Yellowstone Bison "(2004), for Discovery Channel/Animal Planet, in conjunction with Braverman Productions.

"Wolves in Paradise"(2007), a one hour Public Televison documentary tells the story of ranchers and wolves in southwest Montana 10 years after the historic Yellowstone wolf reintroduction. The film was co-produced with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Montana PBS with major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Bill began his journalistic career in Africa as a photographer and filmmaker with the United Nations in the mid-1970’s. By the late seventies he was a staff photographer and reporter with United Press International, based in Brussels and in Nairobi covering Africa and the Middle East. In 1982 he joined Time Magazine as a contract staff photographer.  Attached to the Time bureaus in Nairobi and Johannesburg, he documented wars and social issues across Africa and the Middle East. 

Since returning to the United States in 1989, Campbell has focused on the dilemmas of poverty, racism and environmental issues in America.  His work for Time spanned nearly three decades, while his photographs have appeared in many other publications including National Geographic, Outside, Esquire, Audubon and Rolling Stone and the New York Times Magazine.

In 1997 Campbell moved to Livingston, Montana, near the northern border of Yellowstone National Park.  He returned to his roots in filmmaking in 1998 when he broadened Homefire Productions to include television news and documentaries. 

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