A big Happy Birthday! to one of the best photography sites on the Internet. This was one of my first discoveries when I first got on the Internet in 1995. It has only improved over the years. While it's success is the result of the all the photographers who have had their images shown here, special mention must be made of it's founder Pedro Meyer. A great photographer and a great promoter of photographers and photography.

zone|zero
from analog to digital
10th anniversary

[more]

Our Tenth Anniversary.
"From analog to digital photography : a decade"
by Pedor Meyer

During this past decade our theme at ZoneZero has been "from analog to digital". No work that we have brought to our pages during this period could better epitomize this idea, than the work of Ken Merfeld. His wonderful imagery made on glass plates, through the process of wet collodion which in the end would migrate to the digital domain, would therefore allow us to bring you his work over the internet. No other photographer that we have published would span such a spread in technologies while still remaining true to his own style.

We hope to bring a degree of clarity through Ken Merfeld's work, to an issue that all too often has been a source of total confusion, in that digital photography is not a specific style of photography but only a technology with which you can produce any style that you wish. In this particular case it has been from wet collodion to digital portraits.

To my dismay I have seen contests sponsored by some of the better known photographic brands which requested images for categories such as "digital photography", as if they were a specific style of photography, thus only creating the present confusion. Some have imagined then that digital photography has to do solely with images that use every filter in the tool chest to produce a sort of "lava lamp" effect, in order to become digital. Well, if you enjoy doing those kind of images, fine, but know that this is only one of the many styles that can be produced digitally. In fact, any style can be produced by digital means.
[more]

Pedro Meyer first came to my attention with a CD-ROM that was a photo-essay on the last days of his parents. Then the Internet came along and zone|zero. That essay is now on zone|zero in another incarnation that Pedro could not have imagined when he first took those images. I've linked to this before. I will probably link to it again.

I Photograph to Remember
by Pedro Meyer