About

Camille Gwen Rogine is a graduate of UCSF School of Medicine and a current Integrated Vascular Resident at Stanford University.

She keeps this website as a way to chronicle a past life in photography and poetry—a life she occasionally revisits in those brief moments between 24s and quick breakfasts and drives home. She loves photography and poetry for many of the same reasons she loves surgery–they push her to look closely and discover constantly, with both attention and intention.

Camille studied literature, film studies, and biology at Swarthmore College, where she graduated with High Honors. At Swarthmore she practiced double exposure photography—which allowed her to merge moments and ideas—and macro photography, which connected her studio work to her biology studies. After college, photography still infused her pursuits: in a neurology lab she investigated pathways of learning and memory through microscopy, as a teacher she designed and taught a course that was half biology lab and half photography studio, and at Kaiser she founded an Art Program in the Pediatric Infusion Center.

Her work has been featured in JAMA Humanities, The Woodstock Arts Association and Museum, The Berkeley Civic Center, and SOMArts, amongst others. She deeply believes that art makes her a better surgeon, and surgery makes her a better artist.