I Photograph to Remember
I Photograph to Remember: The Art of Storytelling
Thursday, 30th Oct 2008 | 7:00 pm
All photography is “instantly posthumous” Susan Sontag once said. This aphorism seems to beat in each honest scene from life expressed in I Photograph to Remember, which is one of the most significant projects Pedro Meyer has undertaken in his entire career.
Jonathan Green explains the history of this work and brings to memory Pedro’s intimate story. He tells how at the end of the 1990s, he saw Pedro’s material for the first time and was struck by his enthusiasm to transfer it to CD-ROM, “a format that was just starting to have an impact in the new world of multimedia.” Meyer was also beginning to do digital photography – when most photographers in Mexico were still unfamiliar with it or were rejecting it – and therefore, as Green notes, I Photograph to Remember “is a conceptual bridge between his analog work and the digital work that followed,” where “the expressive and panoramic image of his father flying” invites the metaphor of this transition. The depth of emotion is expressed there, but the curator explores further. He signals how the intense Meyerian story opens by using his images as “innocent family photos” to reach a natural climax, although it seems severe to us; the use of black and white creating “tension between the white hospital gowns and darkness ever on the lurk”; the proximity of his voice and images brought in harmony with music by Manuel Rocha; expressing such compassion and tenderness for each fleeting instant; and like a corollary in the last question uttered by Liesel Richheimer to her son Pedro: “Why couldn’t we be this close all our lives?”
I Photograph to Remember will be presented by Zaheer A. Kidvai, followed by an open discussion on story-telling, photography, and new media. This event is part of the “Pedro Meyer’s Heresies” exhibition being held at T2F until 1st Dec 2008.
Date: Thursday 30th October, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Minimum Donation: Rs. 100
Venue: The Second Floor (T2F)
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Seats are limited and will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. No reservations.
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