Pedro
Meyer is one of the pioneers and most recognized representatives
of contemporary photography. He was the founder and president
of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía
(Mexican Council of Photography) and organizer of
the first three Latin American Photography
Colloquiums. Besides his artistic photographic work,
Pedro Meyer has been a teacher in various prestigious institutions,
as well as the curator, editor, founder and director of the
renowned photography website ZoneZero, which
hosts the work of over a thousand photographers from all over
the world, and is visited by more than 500,000 people each
month. More than 5.5 million people visited ZoneZero
in one year making it one of most visited sites for content
on the web.
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| In 1991 he published
the very first CD ROM in the world that combined images and sound
titled “I Photograph to Remember. He is also
the author of the books “Tiempos de América”
(American Times), “Espejo de Espinas”
(Mirror of Thorns), “Los Cohetes
duraron todo el día” (The Fireworks Lasted
All Day). His book “Truths and Fictions: A journey
of documentary photography to digital” edited by
Aperture, was also made later into a CD ROM by Voyager in 1995.
His latest book titled “The Real and the True”
published by Peach Pitt Press came out in 2005.
Pedro Meyer has imparted more than a hundred lectures on the subject
of photography and new technologies in important festivals, museums
and academic institutions in Mexico, The United States, England,
Germany, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador and Sweden amongst others. He
has been a guest artist in the University of Colorado in Boulder,
Centro de Estudios Fotográficos in Vigo, Spain and The Arizona
Western Collage in Yuma, Arizona.
His work has been presented in more than 200 exhibitions in museums
and galleries all over the world and is part of very important permanent
collections that include: The San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Musee
National D'art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The International
Center of Photography also in New York, George Eastman House in
Rochester, New York, The California Museum of Photography, in Riverside,
The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, Casa de
Las Américas, Havana, Cuba, Centro Studie e Archivo della
Comunicazione dell’ Universitá of Parma, Italy, and
Comuna di Anghiari, Palazzo Pretorio, Italy amongst others.
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was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim grant in 1987, the Internazionale
di Cultura Citta di Anghiari in 1985, in 1993 he received the National
Endowment for the Arts in conjunction with Jonathan Green and the
California Museum of Photography in Riverside. He has also
received numerous awards in Mexican Photography Biennales and the
very first grant destined to a Web project, awarded by the Rockefeller
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