Pedro Meyer
Pedro Meyer (born October 6, 1935, in Madrid) is a Spanish-born Mexican photographer who lives in Mexico City. He was an early user of digital photography.
He started the Mexican Council of Photography and helped organize the first three Latin American Photography Colloquiums. Besides making art, he has taught at various schools, worked as a curator and editor, and founded ZoneZero, a large photography website that hosts more than a thousand photographers from around the world. ZoneZero attracts about 500,000 visitors each month, totaling around 5.5 million in a year.
Meyer has been a guest artist at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Centro de Estudios Fotográficos in Vigo, Spain, and Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona. His work has been studied by academics. He founded and chairs the Pedro Meyer Foundation.
In 2008, a retrospective called Heresies was shown in 100 museums worldwide during the week of October 6. He has received many honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1987), the Internazionale di Cultura Citta di Anghiari (1985), and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993 in collaboration with Jonathan Green and the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. He has won many Mexican photography prizes and the Rockefeller Foundation grant for a Web project. Time magazine named him one of the best Mexican photographers in 1995.
Publications and projects include I Photograph to Remember (1991), one of the first CD-ROMs to combine images and sound. He has written books such as Tiempos de América, Espejo de Espinas, and Los Cohetes duraron todo el día. Truths and Fictions: A journey of documentary photography to digital was made into a CD-ROM by Voyager in 1995. His latest book, The Real and the True, was published in 2005 by Peachpit Press. In 2007, a special Mentor issue of Nueva Luz celebrated his work, edited by Elizabeth Ferrer.
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