Chronology
Learn more about Pedro Meyer’s career
1963-1967
Founder of the Photographic Art Group, México D.F.
The group organizes discussions on photography and solo exhibitions in Mexico.
1968
Photographs the streets of Mexico City, documenting the events that led up to October 2nd in Tlatelolco.
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,
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.
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.
1984
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Third Latin American Colloquium on Photography in Havana, Cuba.
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.
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.
1990
Concentrates on learning the use and implications of digital art and photography; opens a studio in Los Angeles, CA, United States.
1991
Spends 2 months photographing the Mixtec region of Oaxaca for National Geographic.
1993
Creates ZoneZero website.
1996
24 Hours in Cyberspace, photographs for the Mojave Desert project, CA, United States.
Visiting artist: Centro de Estudos Fotograficas, Vigo, Spain.
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.
1998
The Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards selects ZoneZero as one of the top 6 arts and entertainment websites in the U.S.
2001
ZoneZero receives 4 million hits per month.
2002
Participates in Day in a Life of Africa, book, DVD and exhibition.
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.
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.
2007
Founder and president of the Pedro Meyer Foundation.
2014
Builds Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, an important contribution to the world of photography, whose main objective is education.