Brilliant Images of Restricted Range Marine Life

Underwater Photography

exhibited October 13 to November 30, 2002

Myron Wang has been photographing sea life and teaching underwater photography for more than forty years. This consuming avocation has led him to produce images for Hallmark Cards, The Kansas City Star Magazine, and Skin Diver Magazine, “Philippine Coral Reefs” by Alan White, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors Undersea Journal, and “The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau,” among other prestigious publications and organizations. His photographic expeditions have lured him to such exotic locations as the Red Sea, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, the Truk Lagoon, and the Seychelles. Myron is a PADI lifetime underwater photography specialty instructor.

Myron’s interest in underwater photography began in the early 1960’s when a fellow diver asked him to carry an extra underwater camera on a dive in the Caribbean. Not content to just haul around the rig, he began “shooting” fish subjects and quickly decided that he would never dive again without a camera. His dedication to shooting the fascinating underworld has earned him top recognition at the International Underwater Photo Contest held in Genoa, Italy, as well as Nikon’s underwater photography award in several of its national contests. The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami is the recipient of Mr. Wang’s photographic collection.

Myron graduated in 1955 from the University of Illinois with a degree in marketing and economics. He is the CEO of Alaskan Fur Company, a family-owned, 75-year-old retail/wholesale business, and teaches scuba and underwater photography at the local dive shop. As a native Kansas Citian, he has devoted much of his free time to civic projects and volunteer work in the Kansas City area such as Village Shalom, Jewish Federation, Kansas City Symphony, Lyric Opera and the Nelson Gallery of Art.

Myron Wang and his “dive buddy” wife, Nicole, now divide their time between their homes in Florida and Kansas City when they aren’t diving somewhere in the world. Not only concerned about our natural fur resources, Myron is very much committed to the conservation of our ocean marine life and environment.