Brief Biography of Joan Myers

Curriculum Vitae and Exhibition History

Print Resolution photographs of Joan Myers

"Wondrous Cold': Burke exhibit shows there's much more to Antarctica than penguins
"The Myers collection, 50 photographs organized by the Smithsonian Institution, provides several levels of context for our presence in Antarctica."– Seattle Times

Find icy beauty at Museum of the Gulf Coast
By CHERYL WINKELMAN, The Enterprise 01/20/2008
It's not easy taking pictures when you're at the South Pole.

LensWork Extended #71 has created a 62 page pdf portfolio of Wondrous Cold images with an audio interview which is available by going to the LensWork website and ordering a copy.  The work also appears in their print version, LensWork 71, Jul-Aug 2007.

Powerful Encounters, Thursday, November 23, 2006 (NYC)
Radio Interview with Leonard Lopate (Real audio required-free download of player at http://www.realaudio.com)
"... a photographer tells us about her trip to one of the most hostile climates on Earth: Antarctica."
Select Listen to the whole show and then select: Photographing Antarctica

The Geographical Society of Philadelphia will host Ms. Myers as she gives a multimedia presentation October 19, 2006 (pdf press release)

Alaska Airline, May 2006, article featuring Wondrous Cold Exhibition

To see the article (pdf)

Wondrous Cold, the companion book to the SITES exhibition, May-September 2006, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, features more than 180 of Myers' captivating color and black-and-white photographs.
Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey received an Honorable Mention from the American Association of Museums' 2006 Publications Competition.

Into the very soul of cold, a review of "Antarctica, A Group Exhibition" at the Bulger Gallery

2003 Eliot Porter Prize Award from the New Mexico Council on Photography

Stanford Magazine, March/April 2005 article

Camera Arts article on Joan Myers-PDF format

1999 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
William P. Clements Prize