Pedro Meyer
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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 photography ZoneZero 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 55 million people visited ZoneZero in one year making it one of the most visited sites for content on the web.
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 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, United Kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador and Sweden among others. He has been a guest artist in the University of Colorado at Boulder, Centro de Estudios Fotográficos in Vigo, Spain and The Arizona Western College 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 several permanent collections including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee National D'art Moderne at the 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, California; 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.
He 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 Foundation.
He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Pedro Meyer Foundation. He is currently working in HERESIES a world-wide retrospective to open in 100 museums during the week of October 6, 2008.
