By Daily Press staff
Award-winning National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita will present a free slide-lecture called “Journeys of Marco Polo” on May 30 at 7 p.m. in Room 214 of the Santa Monica College Art Complex.
Yamashita has been a regular contributor to the National Geographic since 1979 and has worked in such locations as Somalia, Sudan, England, Ireland, New Guinea and New Jersey.
He has received a number of professional awards, including the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Competition, New York Art Director's Club and the Asian-American Journalists Association. His work has been displayed at such venues as the National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The lecture is SMC’s annual Rocky Young Lecture, named after long-time former SMC professor and administrator who is currently president of Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills.
The lecture is sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus, and the SMC history department.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 15, 2003. Read the original PDF.