Campbell was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and spent her childhood in New Orleans and Lake Charles, Louisiana. Campbell’s forty plus years of documentary photography includes projects concerned with issues of cultural representation and social justice: anti-war demonstrations during the Vietnam and Iraq wars; organizing drives of the United Farm Workers Union in 1976-77; a six year documentation of Mardi Gras in New Orleans; panorama landscape photographs of the wetlands of southwestern Louisiana; documentation of Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; street photography in Havana and campesinos in the Pinar Del Rio and Valle de Los Ingenios regions of rural Cuba and Duck Blinds: Louisiana, a fifteen year documentation of handmade hunting blinds located on the Calcasieu River of southwestern Louisiana.