Pierre Odier
Adventurer, Photographer, Author, Publisher
Biography of Pierre Odier
AUTHOR & ADVENTURER
Pierre Odier was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1959 he moved to the United States. He joined the United States Army in the same year and became a communications specialist. He served his last military years in the Northwest and was discharged in Tacoma, Washington.
In Tacoma he owned and operated a restaurant-nightclub, an art gallery and worked as an interpreter and translator for the Weyerhaeuser Company. He received his B.A. and teaching credentials from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, M.F.A. California State of Los Angeles.
Upon completion of his teaching credentials he moved to Glendale, California, to accept a teaching position at the Herbert Hoover High School in the Glendale Unified School District. His duties included Fine Arts Chairperson and the teaching of Photography, Fine Arts, Humanity and yearbook classes.
Odier served on the public relations committee for the local teacher organization and as a five-year member on the teacher contract negotiating team, with one year as chairperson.
Pierre and Friend Odier was the president of the National Photography Instructors Association (N.P.I.A.), editor of a national photography publication, member of the National College Board Fine Arts Committee and travels extensively as a lecturer and conference speaker. He is the two time past president of The Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles, current president of the Adventurer Foundation and a member of the Explorers Club Of New York.
Pierre Odier is actively pursuing travel to remote places of the world in order to document indigenous peoples. He resides in Eagle Rock, California and is owner of a publishing company L’Image Odier.
COMMENTS
Where would you like to explore?
ARRIVING SOON
Pierre Odier has visited the following countries. He is sorting through photos and transcribing travel notes, in order to share his adventures with you about these fascinating places. Please return soon, and in the meantime visit the countries above.
Assam
Bhutan
Borneo
Burma
Cambodia
Costa Rica
Gujarat
India
Mali
N. India, Kashmir, Pakistan
ARRIVING SOON
Pierre Odier has visited the following countries. He is sorting through photos and transcribing travel notes, in order to share his adventures with you about these fascinating places. Please return soon, and in the meantime visit the countries above.
What a rich and glorious life you have had! Thanks for sharing your adventures in photos and stories. I have a few of your books and they are very enlightening, feeling as if I had traveled to those exotic lands myself. Your photography is exceptional.