Meyer received an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2001. His early undergraduate work was documenting downtown Chicago streets, visually isolating street-level views. He was also interested in the rural Midwest, concentrating on old rural post offices and silos. He used a 4×5 field camera to create these images.
In graduate school, he turned inward. Still using the 4×5, he photographed objects in the house that he grew up in that were tied to vivid memories from his youth. He documented the object in a straightforward manner and then wrote about the memory associated with that object. He placed the printed text next to the framed photograph.
He taught traditional and digital photography at the university level for ten years. In 2003, he returned to the USAF to become a Flight Engineer on the C-130. While in the military, he was deployed twelve times in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. During these deployments, he mounted a camera behind his flight engineer seat and tapped into the comm system on the C-130, capturing everything from the mundane to the intense. He shot several hundred hours of video while flying combat missions and on the ground during downtime. Meyer combines photography, text, and video to create video installations. In the summer of 2022, Meyer attended a CreatiVets Residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for combat-disabled veterans. This event reinvigorated his artistic career.
Meyer retired from the military as a part-timer in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserves. His part-time job turned into eight years of active duty, twelve combat deployments, and two years of state-side medivac and human remains missions. As a result of his military flying career and unknown genetic makeup, he has some issues.
Since retiring, he’s combed through his journals and videos and started creating video installations. He contrasts the different aspects of his experiences, thoughts, and feelings resulting from his military service and shares them with his viewers.