Joan Myers (born in Des Moines, Iowa, 1944) is a fine art photographer best known for her images of Antarctica and the American West.
She has also photographed the Japanese Relocation Camp from the 1940s, the Spanish pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, India wildlife, women as they age, and the extremes of ice and fire such as glaciers and volcanoes.
Myers earned a master's degree in musicology from Stanford University in 1967 with a concentration on Renaissance and baroque music performance.
[3] In 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded Joan Myers an Antarctic Artists and Writer's Grant to photograph at McMurdo Station, surrounding field stations, historic huts, and the South Pole during the 2002-2003 austral summer.
[4] Her photography archive is housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.