Pedro Meyer is a well-known photographer based in Mexico. He is one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in contemporary photography

Photography

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. 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, Meyer has been a teacher in various institutions, as well as the curator, editor, founder and director of the photography ZoneZero

ZoneZero

ZoneZero is a website dedicated to photography, founded in 1994 by Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer. It first appeared online when the internet became a public resource, making it the oldest still standing and growing website dedicated to photography. Robert Hirsch has referred to it as a...

 website, 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 the most visited sites for content on the web.

Meyer has imparted more than a hundred lectures on the subject of photography and new technologies in festivals, museums and academic institutions in Mexico

Mexico

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, the United States

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, United Kingdom

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, Germany

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, Spain

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, Ecuador

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 and Sweden

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 among others. He has been a guest artist in the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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, Centro de Estudios Fotográficos in Vigo, Spain and The Arizona Western College

Arizona Western College

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 in Yuma, Arizona.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 1987, the Internazionale di Cultura Citta di Anghiari in 1985, in 1993 he received the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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 in conjunction with Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green

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 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 Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

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He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Pedro Meyer Foundation. He is currently working in HERESIES a worldwide retrospective to open in 100 museums during the week of October 6, 2008.

In 1991 he published I Photograph to Remember, the first CD ROM in the world to combined images and sound. He is 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 was made into a CD ROM by Voyager in 1995. His latest book titled The Real and the True, published by Peachpit Press, came out in 2005. In 2007, his work and contribution to the field of photography was honored via a special Mentor issue of Nueva Luz photographic journal (published by En Foco), guest edited by curator Elizabeth Ferrer.

Articles

• Pedro Meyer's Documentary Fictions, by Jonathan Green. Aperture 136, Summer 1994.