Pedro Meyer was a founding member of the Mexican Council of Photography along with Lázaro Blanco, Julieta Jiménez Cacho, Raquel Tibol, and Anibal Angulo. What began in 1976 as a group of colleagues who met on Thursday nights in Mexico City, was transformed into a civil association that always had the mission of being a space for the development of photographic work in Mexico and Latin America. The CMF was a key player in the struggle to generate the conditions of possibility for photography to be transformed into a space and practice capable of expressing and influencing the social and artistic life of a society, taking care of both the formal part of the image and its human aspect.

Pedro Meyer presided over the CMF from its founding in 1978 until 1983. During his tenure, the First Latin American Photography Colloquium was organized in 1978. From May 11 to July 9 of the same year, the First Exhibition of Contemporary Latin American Photography was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, bringing together more than 600 works by 116 authors. On September 5, 1978, the exhibition “Contemporary Portrait in Mexico I”. Painting and photography by Guillermo Ceniceros, Enrique Estrada and Pedro Meyer at the Carrillo Gil Museum. Almost simultaneously and sponsored by the National Institute of Anthropology and History, exhibitions on the Historical Image of Photography in Mexico were also inaugurated at Chapultepec Castle and the National Museum of Anthropology. For the first time in three of the most important museums in the city, there was a broad vision of the past and present of photography. […]

These events marked a milestone in the field of photography in Mexico and Latin America, as it was the first time that photographers from the region met to express their work and think about issues surrounding photography, promoting the creation of photographic institutes and councils in the different regions of the continent. In 1981, the Second Exhibition of Contemporary Latin American Photography took place, as well as the Second Latin American Photography Colloquium.