105 days, 11 countries and my camera with Paul Meyer
Join HTMC member Paul Meyer on his latest adventure with Semester at Sea; 105 days, 11 countries, 600 college student, staff and faculty, a small cruise ship and Paul and his camera. Semester at Sea’s mission statement is “to educate students with global understanding necessary to address the challenges of our interdependent world.” The program takes a bunch of students and Life Long Learners and gives them the opportunity to take regular college course on the ship then apply what they learn in different environments around the world. Unlike a normal cruise that only spends one day in each port SAS stays 4-6 days in each country allowing students to get a much richer look below the surface. Croatia, Jordan, Kenya, and India were on this itinerary to name just a few. Paul’s photography on the trip was concentrated on land/cityscapes and portraits of the people that lived in our destination countries.
Paul Meyer was ten he began documenting his family in Hawaii with his first camera. Photography became his career when he started working at a Navy sponsored research and development laboratory while still in college at the University of Hawaii. He received a second bachelor’s degree, this time from Brooks Institute of Photography and headed to New York in the early ‘80s. There he assisted some of the finest commercial photographers in the world before returning to the West coast. Five years assisting and shooting in Los Angeles led Paul back to Santa Barbara where he accepted a full-time teaching position at Brooks Institute in 1990. That same year Paul married Santa Barbara artist, Lisbeth Scheid. His two favorite photographic subjects, Evan and Landis, were born in ’92 and ’97. His work has been published in a number of magazines including American Photo and has been exhibited in Santa Barbara at Brooks Institute and the Contemporary Arts Forum. Paul has circumnavigated the globe twice with Semester at Sea, serving both as shipboard photographer and photographic instructor. He has returned to India, one of his favorite destinations, a number of times, once as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at the Light and Life Academy in Ooty. Along with a former student, Paul helped establish a landscape workshop company where he served as the Director of Academics. With the closing of Brooks Institute in 2016, Paul has taken positions as adjunct faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles and at Santa Barbara City College. Visit Paul Meyer’s website to view more of his work!
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5:30 pm Potluck
7:00 pm Presentation
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