Pedro Meyer Quotes

• Siempre me pareció patético que, como fotógrafo, dependiera tanto de la suerte... Así que en cuanto me ofrecieron herramientas [digitales] para adaptar la forma de la imagen a mis elecciones, y no a las de la suerte, me enganché.

  Pedro Meyer

  Choices, Luck, Would Be

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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.

  Pedro Meyer

  Grief, Way, Moments

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

  Pedro Meyer

  Authority, Obligation

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• Antes se utilizaba el mito de que la fotografía no miente para encubrir trucos. Si te [hago] un retrato, te acomodo, te ilumino, te maquillo o uso un filtro, ¿no estoy manipulando la realidad? La única diferencia es que ahora puedo hacerlo desde el ordenador en el postclic en lugar del preclic. Si decido fotografiar algo en lugar de otra cosa, también manipulo la realidad. Por supuesto que una fotografía puede mentir o cometer abusos, pero siempre ha podido.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Lying, Reality

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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 era of analog photography.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Tools, Eras

  Pedro Meyer, Louis Kaplan (2006). “The Real and the True: The Digital Photography of Pedro Meyer”, New Riders Pub

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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.

  Pedro Meyer

  Real, Moments, Rich

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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 on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.

  Pedro Meyer

  Reality, Doe, Photograph

  "MotherJones ND93: Truth & fiction" by Ruben Martinez, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1993.

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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 you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Attitude, Eye

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