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Author:Pedro Meyer
We are being confronted by a barrage of information these days that require we heighten our awareness of what it is that we are being fed, be these texts or pictures. One has to ask oneself, who is presenting the information? What are...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
The engine roars as the hand made airplane built out of recycled CocaCola parts flies over the sky while the sun starts to settle over the horizon. Who said that such a plane could not fly? If we want to, as all children prove to us on...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
Day 1
Background
The editorial on this occasion is going to be a departure from our normal editorials, in that this is going to be a one month long dialogue in the long established format of a travel diary (dialogue...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
Yesterday was mother’s day, and the children in the school where my son attends had the usual gathering to offer all their mothers the due homage they deserve.
As these gatherings usually go, they are quite staged by the...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
When I started in photography in the early fifties, we used to buy bulk film among a group of friends so that we could afford to buy the entire can with the equivalent of about 20 rolls of film, at a much cheaper price. The problem with...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
It appears that a boxing match is taking place; in one corner we have "traditional" photography, and in the other, a new contender: "digital" photography.
However, there is one major problem with this alleged "fight", these two...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
"It does not matter what the tools are, the important issue is what are the ideas."
You will probably have come across such a statement, here or there, made by people fending off any effort to discuss the tools of their trade....
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Author:Pedro Meyer
“It is the instant, the bird which is everywhere and nowhere”, according to Octavio Paz. “ We want to hold it alive, but it holds open it’s wings and vanishes, transformed into a handful of syllables”. With this poetic...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
From the image above we can’t really gather what these men are looking at, we can only speculate. As soon as we see a group of people looking into a specific direction we usually turn our heads and join them, in an attempt to...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
I. The Elections
The people of Mexico have spoken. The political party that has been in power for over seventy years straight -making it the oldest in the world- has to go. This was the outcome of the presidential elections...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
It was in 1940 that my mother took this picture of me standing there in front of my father, Ernesto, both with our hands in our pockets; the photograph had been in the family album for a long time when I recently rediscovered it. Today,...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
I went to a farewell party given for a friend of mine; it was in a home in the Hollywood Hills. I was standing around waiting for the food to be served when I noticed that a button had fallen off my shirt. I bent down to look for...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
When presenting some of my digital pictures, I am frequently confronted with the comment: "but surely this is not a documentary photograph, is it?"
Before we move on to respond, let us first establish hopefully with some...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
As a child I was always intrigued by those particles of dust that seemed to be tumbling their way up following the path of light beams. My bedroom became a scenario for such light shows as light rays filtered through the blinds. I would...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
To flash version
The Zapatista movement in Chiapas invented a place in the jungle that went by the name of "La Realidad" (Reality), located in the southern part of Mexico. It became a geographic rallying point from which to launch many...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
I was driving recently down one of the beautiful avenues of Washington D.C. with a friend, when all of a sudden my eye caught a billboard above that archetype of Americana, a Diner. The interesting thing was that the sign I was...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
If digital photography is supposed to be so great, why don't we see a lot more interesting work? Is a frequent question I hear. A good friend of mine recently sent me a note with the following commentary: " Some sage or other made the...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
By now I have heard so many arguments about the intrinsic advantage of the "real" gallery space over the internet variant, that I find it deserves looking into in more detail. One recurrent theme that comes up is the idea related to...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
It used to be that up to the 80's photographing on the street and walking around with a camera was a safe practice. If you respected people's privacy and were gentle in your approach towards the subjects, more often than not, people...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
"He had been walking for two days, in someone else’s clothes, trying to find a way of out of Kosovo when he came across a photograph lying, face up, by the side of the road."
"He looked, and looked again, at the pretty fair...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
Even though the picture above is only of the eye, it is intended to be a self portrait. There is nothing to suggest that a self portrait has to include all of the face, is there? The reason that I wanted to explore this image of the...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
Why am I so fascinated by this city? Probably because it is the only place where I can make a photograph in which the outcome is an unaltered image which looks like a text book rendition of a layered digital fabrication created on a...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
Are scars beautiful? That depends on the beholder doesn't it. Scars invoke the memory of difficult moments. One could make the argument that society tries to avoid scars. In the first world a lot of women try to keep the scars of time...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
A few years ago, I received an e-mail from a Swedish student preparing his final report towards his degree in law school. He sent me a questionnaire on what he called then the "balancing of interests in a typical sampling-situation". He...
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Author:Pedro Meyer
The prestigious Prix ARS Electronica, from Linz, Austria, just sent out a wonderful book presenting the winners of their 1997 awards with a running commentary by the Jury that gave out these awards.
We at ZoneZero had submitted...
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