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Good Friday
Pedro Meyer
1984
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Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer was educated in the United States, but returned to Mexico in 1956. He is a self-taught photographer whose works have appeared in more than 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and are part of permanent collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Meyer founded two Mexican photography organizations, the Grupo Arte Fotográfico and the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, and established the photography Web site ZoneZero, which hosts the work of more than 1,000 photographers. He lectures widely about photography and new technologies.
I have a son, a little son,
a youngster mighty fine!
and when I look at him I feel
that all the world is mine.
But seldom do I see him when
he’s wide awake and bright.
I always find him sound…
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