Pedro Meyer’s Heresies: A Retrospective - Launches Oct 21
Pedro Meyer’s Heresies is a retrospective comprising four decades of groundbreaking work by one of the world’s most innovative photographers.
T2F is proud to be part of the Heresies exhibit - opening simultaneously in 60 museums worldwide in October 2008.
Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer is as renowned for his powerful and provocative photographs as he is for his pioneering work with digital imaging. Meyer’s photographs consistently test the limits of truth, fiction and reality. With the advent of digital photography in the early 1990s, Meyer evolved from a documentary photographer who created so-called “straight photographs” into a digital-documentarian who often combines photographic elements from disparate times and places to arrive at a different or higher truth.
Meyer’s oft-expressed contention that all photographs - digitally manipulated or not - are equally “true” and “untrue” has been labeled “heretical” in the orthodox documentary photography community. Hence the title “Heresies”.
Meyer’s personal innovations in the field of digital photography include creating the first CD-ROM to combine sound and images, creating the first digital prints ever made and in 1994, creating his renowned online photography forum, zonezero.com - the most-visited digital photography content site on the web.
In addition to these artistic and technical contributions, Meyer’s trailblazing work on behalf of Latin American photographers, beginning with his establishment of the Mexican Council of Photography in the late 1970s, effectively organized and elevated photography as an art form across an entire continent.
Heresies Events at T2F
- Heresies Part I: 21st October 2008
- I Photograph to Remember - The Art of Storytelling: 30th October 2008
- Heresies Part II: 4th November 2008
- Cell Phones: A Different Way of Seeing - A workshop conducted by Amean J: 8th November 2008
- Digital Montage: The Potential to Expand Visual Language - A workshop conducted by Farah Mahbub: Date To Be Announced
- Heresies Part III: 18th November 2008
- Screening of Truths and Fictions followed by a panel discussion with Karachi’s leading photographers: 18th November 2008
We are grateful to Sony Center @ Clifton Outlet for partnering with us for the Heresies Exhibition.
Could you please post a calendar of the different Heresies events? I would like to attend all but if they are on different days then it might be a problem.
Or will all of these workshops and discussions be squeezed into one day?
Please let me know asap so that I can plan accordingly. Thank you.
Nabeel
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@ Nabeel: The dates will be posted as soon as they are finalized. The events will be on different days, over a 6 week period. The exhibition itself will launch on Oct 21.
Look forward to attending. thanks,
Great!! I hope you will also put the reminders of the events on fb.
Some pics of Ajoka Event:
http://flickr.com/photos/darkcoldcoffee/tags/ajoka/
cheers!
@Beanz, you must be EXHAUSTED, but what an AWESOME exhibition you and ZAK have managed to put up. It was a real treat. am looking forward to visiting again and again to see the photographs and video clips - and am eagerly awaiting the next lot you’ll put up. An astounding feat getting Pedro Meyer to show here at T2F. Congratulations.