Chronology

Learn more about Pedro Meyer’s career

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1963-1967

Founder of the Photographic Art Group, México D.F.
The group organizes discussions on photography and solo exhibitions in Mexico.

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1968

Photographs the streets of Mexico City, documenting the events that led up to October 2nd in Tlatelolco.

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1977-1978

Founder member and president of the Mexican Council of Photography-Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, A.C. Mexico City.
President of the Organizing Committee of the First Latin American Photography Colloquium,

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1978-1979

He travels extensively in Nicaragua, photographing and interviewing people, including then-dictator Anastasio Somoza. He is the first to be able to photograph the Sandinistas in their training camps.

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1980-1981

President of the Organizing Committee of the Second Latin American Photography Colloquium.

He is re-elected president of the Mexican Council of Photography and opens Casa de la Fotografía, which would become the center of photographic activities in Mexico City.

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1984

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Third Latin American Colloquium on Photography in Havana, Cuba.

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1985

Creates and organizes the Río de Luz series, a collection of Latin American photography books published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico.

Visiting Artist: The Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Arizona Western College. Yuma, AZ, United States.

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1989

He coordinates Mexico Through Foreign Eyes exhibition, inviting Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar as curators.

He travels 1,500 miles across the United States, working on the Guggenheim project.

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1990

Concentrates on learning the use and implications of digital art and photography; opens a studio in Los Angeles, CA, United States.

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1991

Spends 2 months photographing the Mixtec region of Oaxaca for National Geographic.

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1993

Creates ZoneZero website.

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1996

24 Hours in Cyberspace, photographs for the Mojave Desert project, CA, United States.

Visiting artist: Centro de Estudos Fotograficas, Vigo, Spain.

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1997

Visiting Artist Program. University of Colorado at Boulder. CO, Estados Unidos.

ZoneZero wins the following awards:
“CNET Best of the Web”

NET Magazine – names ZoneZero one of the top 100 sites of all time, and one of the top 5 in the art category.
Luckman Interactive names ZoneZero a “Luckman Five-Star winner.”
NET Guide- gives ZoneZero five stars, naming it a Platinum-rated site.

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1998

The Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards selects ZoneZero as one of the top 6 arts and entertainment websites in the U.S.

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2001

ZoneZero receives 4 million hits per month.

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2002

Participates in Day in a Life of Africa, book, DVD and exhibition.

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2003

Tenth Anniversary of ZoneZero. Colloquium 10 years from analog to digital: ZoneZero. (September) Teatro de las Artes, Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico.

Laberinto de la Luz Exhibition. ZoneZero. Image and Education Colloquium. (September) Galería Central, Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico.

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2004-2008

Creates Archivo Pedro Meyer, a database that contains his entire life’s work (more than 450,000 images and documents)

He coordinates Heresies, a project that includes the digitization of his photographic archive, the creation of galleries to be seen on pedromeyer.com site and exhibitions in various museums around the world.

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2007

Founder and president of the Pedro Meyer Foundation.

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2014

Builds Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, an important contribution to the world of photography, whose main objective is education.