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| Pedro Meyer - 1 December 2025, Coyoacán, México |
If I became a reasonably good photographer and I look at that career from the vantage point of today December 31st I can ascertain that it is all due to the fact I had many fabulous mentors that began with my parents and grandmother, the Brothers of Holy Cross at St. Edward’s High School in Austin and many more.
Because I am 83 a product of a century when most people died in their 70s, I have outlived all my mentors except for a few. Two important ones are ex Vancouver Magazine editor Malcolm Parry and art director (also for that magazine) Chris Dahl.
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| Chris Dahl & Malcolm Parry |
Just when I thought all that was over and I could just quit and wait for my oblivion I went to Mexico City on December 1st to photograph 91 year-old photographer Pedro Meyer. What I faced with my camera was a very busy photographer who uses a digital Leica to take his photographs. Since two years ago he became almost blind he is only able to discern light and shadow and some movement.
A man so excited about photography at that age has given me the push to keep doing my plant scans, portraits and writing my now over 6700 blogs.
Against statistics I have a mentor much older than I am.
I like to associate. A few days ago my Portland visitor Curtis Daily and I went to the Polygon Gallery to see the Lee Miller show. I was particularly drawn to Miller’s great inspirations in Man Ray’s darkroom reversal prints that are called solarized. I have one that happened to me by accident. But this b+w negative portrait that I took of Meyer reversed in Photoshop will do just fine.
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Thank you, gracias señor, por la inspiración, for the inspiration, de continuar con lo hago, to continue with what I do. Twenty twenty six promises to be a productive one for me.