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Pedro Meyer

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[Wikipedia] Pedro Meyer is a Spanish-born Mexican photographer living in Mexico City. He was an early adopter of digital photography. He was the founder and president of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía and organizer of the first three Latin American Photography Colloquiums.

Quotes by Pedro Meyer

Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,…

Abuse

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The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going…

Doe

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The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the…

Analog

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I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

Authority

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I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

Choices

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Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

Isolated

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[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at…

Attitude

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At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.

Certain

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