Friday, November 22, 2019

Artist of the day, November 22 (Semana Mexicana, Mexican week): Pedro Meyer, a Spanish-Mexican photographer (#845)

¡Bienvenido a la semana mexicana! permítanos presentarle al Sr. Pedro Meyer, uno de los pioneros y representantes más reconocidos de la fotografía contemporánea

Pedro Meyer (1935) is a well-known photographer based in Mexico. He is one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in 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, Meyer has been a teacher in various 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 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, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador and Sweden among others. He has been a guest artist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Centro de Estudios Fotográficos in Vigo, Spain and The Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship 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. In 2008 a retrospective exhibition named HERESIES opened in 100 museums worldwide during the week of October 6, 2008.

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Mr. Pedro Meyer

1980, The Announcement

The Lady of the Mole and Her Friends, Ecuador

Boda en Coyoacan (Wedding in Coyoacan)

 Biblical Times, NYC



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