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

Bill, a former Time Magazine photographer, has developed, shot and produced TV segments for NBC, ABC Nightline, CNN, Discovery, the National Geographic Channel and PBS He has shot and produced three one-hour documentaries: Season of the Grizzly and Sole Survivors: The Yellowstone Bison for Discovery Communications/Animal Planet; and Wolves in Paradise with ITVS and Montana PBS. The documentary, which explores the fate of ranchers and wolves outside Yellowstone Park, received a 2008 Cine Golden Eagle award and will air on national PBS in December 2008.

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, 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.

Bill is currently a contributing producer for NOW on PBS, the weekly national current affairs show. He is the producer and photographer for On Thin Ice, a one hour special for NOW with host David Brancaccio and mountain climber Conrad Anker that covers the impact of climate change from Montana’s Glacier National Park to India’s Gangotri glacier, the source of the Ganges.

His current still photography projects include documenting environmental and social issues in the US and abroad.