Some of the letters we have received at ZoneZero

From: Satsi Acevedo
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Please, register me
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 1999, 12:05 AM

I think this is a really good site to visit. Here I do not have many chances to see good photographs; i am just starting to work on it, and I think that it is good to see other people's work.

Satsi Acevedo
Mexico, April 24th, 1999

From: jenett
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: congrats
Date: Sun, Apr 25, 1999, 8:50 PM

I am pleased to let you know that your site, ZoneZero, was chosen to receive the CoolSTOP Best of the Cool Award for 4/26/99.

Your pages stand out because of great graphic design, creativity, easy navigation and original, interesting content.
You are listed at http://www.coolstop.com/bestof
I am still pleased to list your site as one of the Best of the Cool.

Thanks for putting your site out there - It's Great!

From: Telépolis
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Su web es "Interesante" para Telépolis
Date: Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 11:26 AM

¡Enhorabuena!

Nos es grato comunicarle que su web ha sido seleccionado como Interesante en el Directorio Temático del portal-web Telépolis, por lo que aparece en un lugar privilegiado dentro del mismo.

De los miles de webs que están referenciados en nuestro directorio, sólo los mejor diseñados y los que aportan una información más relevante adquieren la categoría de Interesante.

Reciba un saludo afectuoso y una enhorabuena por la calidad e interés de su presencia en Internet.
"Telépolis, tu punto de partida en Internet"
http://www.telepolis.com

From: Susana Shanahan
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:42:05 -0300
To: ilpostino@zonezero.com
Subject: Irlandesa de Argentina

Soy descendiente de irlandeses, vivo en Buenos Aires, soy periodista he visitado vuestra pagina y es realmente FABULOSA, me encantaria tener mayor informacion sobre Ustedes y poder ver que posibilidades existen de que mantengamos contacto frecuente.

Les cuento que tengo,desde 1996 un programa radial PLum Pudding para los descendientes irish y para los celtas de argentina. Ademas trabaje en el diario mas viejo de los irlandeses en America el The Southern Cross y en Celtic News una revista y el periodico Argentine Irish Times.

Espero sus noticias y nuevamente felicitaciones por las notas, por la idea de juntarse. Espero poder unirme a UStedes y brindarles informacion de aqui.

Afectuosamente
Susana Shanahan

From: Nacho Guerrero <ngro@chih1.telmex.net.mx>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 01:58:52 -0500
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: registration in zonezero

Bueno, soy David Lauer, mi dirección electrónica es desertvoices@yahoo.com.

Soy literato hecho fotógrafo y me encanta la propuesta de tener un espacio abierto al diálogo sobre la fotografía y otros temas de tanta importancia para nuestro mundo. He visitado este sitio varias veces en el pasado y me da mucho gusto verlo crecer, mejorar.

I live in Chihuahua now, and am a bilingual border person who has travelled extensively. I don´t really know what more to say, don´t know to whom I am speaking (which makes it rather strange) so I guess I will leave it at that and thank Pedro, et. al. for a fascinating space.

Gracias,

david

>From: CitrusGirrl TasteExplosion
>To: register@zonezero.com
>Subject: your amazing site...
>Date: Wed, Apr 21, 1999, 8:16 AM

> hello!
> i am a photography student from the uk and i can honestly say that yours is the best photography web site i have ever seen, (and i've seen quite a few).
>i will recommend it to all my photography friends. keep up the good work...
>
> much love,
> citrusgirrl

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From: CitrusGirrl TasteExplosion
To: register@zonezero.com pedro meyer
Subject: Re: your amazing site...
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 1999, 4:44 AM

dear pedro,
i only hope that one day i will a good enough photographer to be a part of your site; this would bea great honour for me as your site genuinely is the best i've seen. maybe i will mail you some of my work when i have finished my degree!!
much love to you,
and thankyou for your email,
hannah (that's my real name...)---

pedro meyer wrote:
> Dear Citrusgirl
>
> We fully appreciate and value your kind words. They are very important words to us as such feedback is the only thing that provides us with the energy to continue doing what we are doing.
>
> Much love to you as well,
> Pedro Meyer

From: Claudia López
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: De Quito
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 1999, 10:52 PM

Estimado Pedro:
Hacía varias semanas que no había tenido tiempo de entrar al sitio; al refugio... a la guarida... y me encantaron todas las cosas nuevas.

Especialmente me conmovió Padres e Hijos. Fabuloso.Un abrazo y ánimo, que ZoneZero es realmente insuperable!!!

Claudia Ramírez López
Quito. Ecuador.

From: Katya Van
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Maybe, you can help me?!
Date: Thu, Apr 22, 1999, 12:59 PM

Dear Sir,
First of all, I'd like to mention that your website is really a great resource for every human interested in photography: digital ortraditional! A masterpiece of information!

I studied photography and right now I'm working for a newspaper agency here in Belgium. I'm interested in photography ever since I was little. Actually, I used to take pictures since I was only five years old. Anyway, I'd like to ask you a question and I really hope you can help me out. A friend of mine wants to make a reportage, far away from home and he asked me to find out how it actually works (to send images from one computer to another) I know a little about image data transfer and I told him, that it's possible to send images with the use of a laptop, connected with a digital camera and modem. But can you tell me a little more about that specificaly or do you know where I can find more resources about this issue on the net (downloadeble tutorials, or so..) It would be great if you would give me some more information!

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
Katya Van Autgaerden - Genk - Belgium
_________________________________________________________

From: "Flor Acosta"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: hola
Date: Thu, Apr 22, 1999, 10:48 PM

hola, deseo poder establecer contacto con ustedes. por lo pronto envio mi direccion electronica. soy una amante de la foto, realizo trabajo autoral y como parte del oficio, doy clases y talleres el dos universidades de guad.mex me es trascendente poder obtener info. asi como establecer comunicacion con los interesados el la reflexion de la imagen fotografica. considero y estoy convencida de que la foto va mas alla de solo tener el dominio de la tecnica

mi nombre es flor acosta. esta es la direccion espero noticias de usted(s) pronto.

From: Amean Jan
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: photographer from pakistan
Date: Sun, Apr 18, 1999, 2:03 PM

I am a photographer based in Karachi now, unfortunately your magazine is not available in Pakistan. If you could put me on your mailing list and send me copies at the following address I will highly appreciate it, thank you.

Amean Jan
18% grey
P O Box 12375
Karachi-75500-Pakistan

PS please mail me names of your editor and photo editor and their mailing addresses so I could put them on my mailing list as well.

From: "Frank Taliano"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: great site
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999, 10:06 PM

This is my first time exploring zone zero. I am a photography student at UMASS/BOSTON and my teacher told the class about this website, I'm glad that she did. As a beginner I enjoy learning anything about photography that I can whether it's techinical info. or about photographers and their work and zone zero is a great find and easily accesible.
Keep up the good work and thanks!

Michelle Nadeau

From: "mendoza rosa maria"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Sencillisimo, pero...
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 1999, 1:58 PM

Es simplemente una historia tan sencilla, tan cotidiana, tan llena de respeto, de amor de un padre hacia un hijo. Yo no tengo padre, quizá por eso admiro dicho respeto. No sé por qué , pero el texto esta lleno de "vida", lo he leído aquí en mi trabajo, atendiendo a un cliente por teléfono, no así, ¡cómo me ha llamado la atención!, me hace pensar que las cosas más sencillas tienen un sabor especial y un sentido, que cada momento por ordinario que parezca es único y especial.

Tengo 22 años, sé que me falta mucho por conocer, pero agradezco que en medio del bullicio, pueda leer un texto así. La vida aveces suele ser tan agetreada, que hace que nos olvidemos de los detalles, ¿no?. Y de los detalles se conforman los momentos más especiales.

Gracias por leerme.
Rosa María.
México, D.F.

From: Bill Hogan
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Wandering and wondering
Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999, 4:26 PM

I was told of your web site by a friend and have been very impressed by what I've found in it. My name is Bill Hogan; I've been a professional photographer for over 20 years. Recently I've begun doing some personal digital work which I'd like to find somewhere to show it. After looking over your web site (and liking what I saw) I'd like to see about putting some of my pieces on it. Can you advise me if this is possible and, if so, what steps I'd need to take to do so. The images are digitally created and combine words with images.
If this is something you don't deal with could you inform we who I would contact.
On the off chance you are the right people to talk to I'm going to send an attachment containing a sample of my work. It's in a BMP format for PC.

Thanks. I enjoy the site. Keep up the good work.

From: Joe Norman
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Registration
Date: Fri, Apr 9, 1999, 12:59 PM

Please register
I can't comment on the sight yet, since this my first visit. However, if it is anything like Pedro Meyer's work, I'll be back many times.

For your information, I am a retired engineer, advanced amateur photographer, and a competent Photoshopper. I retired from my left brain activities in engineering and have started to revive my right brain with photography and digital art work. I've got a long way to go. The left side of the brain is a tough character. I'll be stopping by this site many times for information and inspiration.

Pedro, if you read this, I'm the Joe who got you to autograph your book last night. Enjoyed your lecture and discussion very much. I only wish we could get more photographers to break out of the frame and start thinking in new ways. I'll pass the work at my photo club, but they are, for the most part, set in their ways and don't want to break out.

Thanks again
Joe Norman

From: Ivy
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Re: show
Date: Thu, Apr 8, 1999, 12:53 PM

Dear Pedro,
Your editorial, "Eye" examines not only the significance of self-portraits, but suggests that if, as the cliche goes, "the eyes are mirrors of the soul," without the catch lights in your eye, your self-portrait would not be as viable.

Most revealing about those catch lights is that photographers can look at others' work and see how it is lit. How very conscious the industry is of this--so much as to offer reflectors shaped to give specific options for the catch lights. In covers for Vogue, Glamour, etc. models' eyes, we can see the light banks very clearly. In Matthew Rolston's shot for Epson's Photo EX Color Ink Jet Printer color printers, the catch lights--facilitated by sunglasses--are so distinct that they reflect a vertical image of Rolston himself, making the exposure, and the light he is standing before. What's even odder is that Rolston is a human scrim, thereby integrating himself with the shot both technically and figuratively.

Jerry Uelsmann once said "Photography will always have elements of alchemy" (my favorite Uelsmann quote), and your Eye essay intensifies this observation. With your digital photo, as Rolston's, the fact that technology is turning things up a bit--or byte--does not exclude, but invites all the more--the human eye. Cearly, there is no substitute, no matter how mysteriously it works on the brain: our computer, as you say.

The lottery idea for group show announcement images is a great one!

Ivy

From: Sean Reid
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Your Site
Date: Fri, Apr 2, 1999, 10:34 PM

Dear Mr. Meyer,
I just discovered Zone Zero this evening and found it to be very interesting. Your comments on self-portraiture made me think of the nudes that the photographer John Coplans has been making of himself over the last decade. He is a friend of a friend. In order to see what he is doing he sets a video camera near his 4 x 5 so that it, essentially, frames the same view as the film camera. By watching the video output on a TV screen, he can see what he's doing.

When I first saw the Coolpix 900 I thought to myself, "Here's John's whole system wrapped into one compact unit". I've become very interested in digital photography and have ordered one of the first Nikon Coolpix 950 cameras since it will allow me some manual control over lens openings, shutter speed and focus. (The images I saw from the Fuji DS-330 were dissapointing.)

After many years of printing for myself and other photographers (mostly large format) I'm intrigued by the freedom of digital photography. For the last several years I have been working (with a traditional rangefinder) on a series of portraits made in the subways of New York City and Budapest, Hungary. The idea, of course, came from Walker Evans' similar project almost 50 years ago and has been nourished by my contact with Helen Levitt, who has given valuable feedback on many of the work prints.

I've assembled some of these subway portraits on a web site but it is incomplete and the sequencing has not yet been finalized. As I do not currently own a film scanner, the pictures were scanned from prints on a simple flatbed scanner so they are somewhat primitive. Then again, they were shot at 3200 ASA (by necessity) and thus are sketch-like even as silver prints.
They can be found at http://www.accessdatabase.com/photo
I look forward to following the progress of Zone Zero.
Yours,
Sean Reid

P.S. A typo on your "feedback" page: received was accidentally spelled as
recieved
Sean Reid
Northeastern Motorcycle Tours
New England, the Adirondacks and the Canadian Maritimes
http://www.motorcycletours.com
802-869-3999

From: "Ernst and Dylan"
To: register@zonezero.com
Date: Sun, Mar 28, 1999, 12:13 AM

Hi, wish I new who was reading this>_grin,
My name is Ernst-Ulrich Schafer and I've been surfing the web like crazy since the holidays when we upgrade the old 486 for our 15 yr old son. This is most likely the best web page of photography and photographers that I have yet to see. I've only taken a short look so far, but will study more in the days to come.

I myself have been photographing with B&W for 25 years now. I enjoy collecting B&W images, B&W photo books and B&W postcards. I tend to be very anti- cliche and yet want to find a very classic style for my images.

Best Regards, Ernst

From: ivan bunine
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: register
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:44:55 +0300

Hi there,
My name is Sergei Larionov, I am a 36 y. old Russian, amateur photog.
There is a lot to see on your site. Where is it powered from, Mexico?
I didn't imagine photography is that strong in Mexico. Sergei Einsenstein went there
(maybe two times) and there's a lot of footage left from those trips. I loved watching it.

Well, my address is
ALL THE BEST.

From: richard silfverberg
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: portfolio
Date: Fri, Mar 26, 1999, 4:27 AM

i was very impressed with your site when i visited it earlier today.
i just set up a page of my own just a few days ago and would like to ask you if my work would be of interest to you when it comes to being displayed at zonezero.

i try to specialize in street photography, normally i take the photos in colour slides and then alter them into black and white and add some tone to them.
i would be honored if you would let me know what you think,
the site is located at.
www.geocities.com/soho/exhibit/9607

regards,
richard silfverberg

From: "Manuel Muñoz García"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Registro a ZoneZero
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 1999, 5:59 PM

Sencillamente estoy impresionado.

Me gusta muchísimo todo.

Me pongo inmediatamente a trabajar para intentar hacer algo que sea digno de ser enviado para evaluación. Aunque, probablemente, me llevará años llegar a tener algo así.

Enhorabuena.
_______________________________________________________
MANUEL MUÑOZ GARCÍA
http://www.teleline.es/personal/mamuga

From: Robert Williams
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Images
Date: Sat, Mar 20, 1999, 2:18 AM

I am taking a course in PHOTOSHOP 5.0. My teacher recommended this site
to view some excellent images.

From: Olga Romano
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Featured
Date: Wed, Mar 17, 1999, 2:02 AM--

ZoneZero is our Featured Site of the Month.
http://www.artxpo.com/artxpoaward.html
______________
Olga Romano
Worldwide Art Xpo
P.O. Box 8245
Emeryville, CA 94662
Toll Free: 1-800-4-ART-XPO
URL: http://www.artxpo.com

From: (Robert Ashby)
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Zonezero
Date: Wed, Mar 17, 1999, 4:32 PM

What a delightful site! Thanks to Colin Jacobson for recommending me to it. Keep me posted!

Regards,
Robert Ashby
Herefordshire Photography Festival

From: Walter
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: El Ojo.
Date: Sun, Mar 14, 1999, 3:13 AM

Despues de una jornada larga de fotografia comercial decidi prender la computadora y observar nuevamente la pantalla.
Hace un tiempo que no llegaba al lugar adecuado para estimular mi mente con algunas imagenes que me pudieran motivar a encontrar de la vereda que se ha caminado antes.

Me encontre con un ojo y decidi mirar que habia detras de la editorial de Zone Zero. Pedro los comentarios que encontre me tocaron profundamente ya que desde hace varios meses he tratado de buscar imagenes para plasmarlas en mi camara creativa. He analizado mis alrededor inmediato y el distante. Trabajamos viendo siempre al exterior pero hasta hoy comprendi que no habia visto el ojo interno de Walter que ha estado cerrado por no detenerse y observar su retrato interno.

Vaya que es muy cierto de que es importante verce en el espejo del alma para ver quien realmente es uno y cuestionarse ! en que punto del camio Me encuentro!

! se me han agotado las posibilidades de observacion, o estoy en una contamplacion pasiva y conformista por la vertiginocidad de la vida de la ciudad Espacial. Tus comentarios y sobre el ojo me han agradado bastante y mas que agradarme me pusieron nuevamente en el pedestal de observacion de uno mismo para examinarce y encontrar que seguimos siendo un constante descubrimiento de nuestro mundo pero que me he dejado atapar por las circunstancias externas y no detenerme a ver lo que realmente necesito mirar.
El interior de mi sencibilidad para sacarla a flote y expander mas este talento que Dios me ha otorgado.

Saludos desde la Ciudad Espacial Pedro
Te mando un abrazo.
Walter.

From: Claudia López
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Registro
Date: Sun, Mar 14, 1999, 3:10 PM

Estimados señores:
Deseo ser incluida en su lista de correo, pues admiro a ZoneZero, sitio que me ha hecho pasar agradables e interesantes tardes de domingo.

Tengo además, la ilusión de encontrar con ustedes el medio de consolidar mi incipiente y rudimentaria filosofía fotográfica, la que a la vez es uno de mis objetivos primordiales en este momento de mi vida.

Cordial saludo.
Claudia Ramírez López

From: "donald p tucker"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: eye lenses
Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999, 8:51 PM

In your editorial, you describe the pupil of the eye as a lens, "fat or thin".

Just a friendly correction from this retired ophthalmologist who greatly admires your work and web sites: The pupil of the eye is the aperture in the center of the (colored) iris, which acts just like the iris diaphragm in the camera, to control the amount of light reaching the retina. The eye has two lenses: The more powerful, fixed-power lens is the cornea, the curved clear window at the front of the eye. Behind the iris (and pupil) is the weaker, but variable crystalline lens, which changes thickness to change focus until you're over fifty. After that we need bifocals.

Your insights of the essential relationship between the eye, human vision, and photography are appreciated.

Just one technical question: do you have any recommendations as to the quality of the various 35 mm films scanners currently available?
Sincerely,
--
Don Tucker

(716) 586-6845

From: Maru y Ricardo
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Saludos y pedido
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999, 8:39 AM

Hola Pedro siempre visito zone zero ya que me parece muy interesante lo que allí se exhibe. Me gustó mucho este trabajo del ojo y en la galería me resultaron muy estimulantes las imágenes de "la adolescente".

Habiendo leido los requisitos para exhibir trabajos allí, puedo decir que cumplen al pie de la letra eso de seleccionar trabajos que estimulen a quienes los observen. en este momento me siento como si hubiese cargado combustible de muy alto octanaje.

Aprovecho esta oportunidad`para preguntarte si conoces algún libro o lugar en la web donde pueda encontrar información sobre la evolución de los distintos géneros fotográficos a través de los años: es decir el retrato a lo largo del siglo, el desnudo, etc, etc.

Desde ya, gracias por tu respuesta y seguiremos en contacto.
María Aurelia Giboin Mazzola

From: (Jason MS)
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: registering
Date: Wed, Mar 10, 1999, 3:54 PM

I want to register if it is free.I want to be a photographer when I get out of high school in two years.Thanx

PhotoFreakFM10 esq.

From: Jorge Silva
To: register@zonezero.com Jorge Silva
Subject: Re: requisitos.
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999, 8:20 PM

Hola!

A quien lo lea:
Primero quiero felicitar a toda la gente que hace posible zonezero, es un trabajo admirable y cada vez resulta mas una consulta obligada, y una alternativa exelente.

Soy fotografo, y tengo una historia que he venido
trabajando el ultimo año, es la vida de una pulqueria en el estado de mexico el trabajo se titula "La Bebida de la Tierra", y quiero saber que tengo que hacer para poner a su consideracion mi trabajo a fin de poder exhibirlo en zonzero en espera de su respuesta, les envio un cordial saludo.

Jorge Silva

From: "Ernesto Lopez"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Your latest edition
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 1999, 5:38 PM

Congratulations on the Fathers and Son exhibit and the letters that were part of it. I have written Ed a note congratulating him and so I thought I would write you to thank you for making it happen. Once again, I find zonezero the place to visit.
The Con was also an exhibit worth visiting.

Thanks again --
Ernesto Lopez

From: "Jorge Martínez Zepeda"
To: register@zonezero.com
Date: Wed, Mar 3, 1999, 1:00 PM

Ayer leí el libro de Victor Flores Olea sobre Internet, en odne menciona a Pedro Meyer y su trabajo como fotografo, en donde incluyen su dirección, es por eso que los localice, me parece muy interesante el artículo de Pedro con puntos de vista inovadores. En lo personal soy historiador y tengo interés en la fotografía del siglo XIX, sobre todo en recrear o de alguna manera reconstruir imágenes con tecnologia moderna.
Saludos y felicidades por su sitio

From: alfredo benito
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: registro gratuito
Date: Wed, Mar 3, 1999, 10:07 PM

Me dirijo a ustedes porque vi una publicidad en una revista mexicana, luna nueva, me intereza ante todo saber si esta registracion tiene costo, si es asi conocer los servicios que ustedes brindan, cabe destacar que he incursionado en la digitalización de imagenes desde 1984 con los recursos disponible en aquel entonces, hoy cuento con camaras digitales, scanners de alta resolucion tanto para papel como para negativos y/o filminas; como medio de impresin utilizo films recordes y/o impresoras de inyeccion de tinta epson (stylus photo, etc) y una fargo sublimal. Desde ya gracias por su atención.

Alfredo E Benito
PD: soy miembro activo de:
Asociacion de fotografos profesionales de Cordoba (Argentina) desde 1983
Asociacion de fotografos profesionales de la Republica Argentina, desde
1997
Photomarketing Association, desde 1998
Digital Image Association, desde 1998
entre otras.

From: WebMaster Internet de Mexico
To: register@zonezero.com ,
Subject: ¡PAGINA DEL DIA!
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 1999, 7:02 PM

Internet de México le informa que diariamente se elige una página electrónica para ser colocada en la sección "Página del Día" de nuestro Site.

Después de un proceso de selección donde se evaluo el diseño, el contenido y la actualidad de la página http://zonezero.com tenemos el agrado de comunicarle que fue seleccionada para ocupar éste lugar de honor, el 6 de marzo de 1999.

From: Misha Gordin
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: i just thought about you this morning
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999, 7:28 PM

how difficult it should be to maintain the quality of work you present...
where to find this new talents...
five hours later i get an email from somebody i never met...
check her out...

ADELE HAMBLIN PHOTOGRAPHER - SOUTH AFRICA
www.hamblinphotojourney.com

misha gordin

From: "roxanne frias"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: a chicana in Paris
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 1999, 9:20 AM

I've been reading your ideas with much interest . I am a chicana from los Angeles living and working in Paris, France for the past 12 years. I have been preparing over the last 5 years a documentary that is almost about what I have read on your pages. So pou understand why it has taken me so long to produce. My project, sin duda, is too vast, too comples, I must zero (huh, zone zero!) in on one story to tell a larger story. In any case the French are quite interested in my chicano stories. I have been producing tv & radio reports called "Ritmos Chicanos" here in France. What I have read in Zone Zero has re-inspired me to continue on..

Gracias, Merci, thanks
Roxanna

From: "Magdalena Yáñez Nepote"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Comentario
Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999, 3:49 PM

Me tome la libertad de escribirle a esta direccion que aparcecio en el articulo de Padres e Hijos de Zonezero, espero no le moleste.

Me llamo Magdalena, vivo en el D.F., tengo 23 años, estudio diseào y fotograf‚a. La intencion de este mail no es mas que expresar un poco de la gran explosion de sentimien tos y pensamientos que tuve al leer las cartas de sus amigos.

Hace unos dias ve‚a un programa en la television acerca de enfermedades que tienen repercusiones en la memoria, me impresionaro mucho los casos de los que hablaron y bueno desde entonces he pen sado en el gran poder de la mente y en que lo unico que realmente tenemos y nos pertenece es la memoria, nuestros recuerdos.Cuando se esta interesando en un tema especifico se es suceptible a todo lo que tenga relacion, pero no me deja de sorprender que en este caso de "coincidencia" se tratara de sentimientos. Ayer comentaba sobre la relacion de padres e hijos y hoy al leer las cartas tuve una sensacion tan extraña no podria, en verdad, explicarla solo llore.

Leer esas alimentaron mi alma.
Gracias

Ana Magdalena Yáñez Nepote
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Ana Magdalena Yáñez N.

From: Darrel Couturier
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Registration
Date: Tue, Feb 23, 1999, 9:33 PM

I would like to be kept up to date with what is happening with ZoneZero.
As I mentioned in my email to Pedro, it is one of the most elegant sites I have yet seen on the internet!

Darrel Couturier

From: Diane Lent
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: register
Date: Sat, Feb 20, 1999, 6:33 AM

I am interested in recieving news about Zone Zero. It is my favorite site. I just posted a new photography site if you ever take submissions or create links. <http://www.peoplelinkresidents.com/dianegreenelent>

Thank you,
Diane Greene Lent

From: "Mike Sweeney"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: web site design
Date: Fri, Feb 19, 1999, 2:21 PM

Dear Pedro,
ZoneZero is awesome! I've never seen that much good photography in one place, so it is a good resource for all the people here at Western Kentucky University studying photojournalism.
I have a question: would you mind if I borrowed the style of displaying photographs for my own web page I'm working on?
I could link ZoneZero directly on the first page since it is my inspiration.

Thanks, Mike Sweeney

From: Polly Phillips
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: What a pleasure
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 1999, 9:57 PM

your elegant web page is! I cannot tell you how often I tune in, and that is the correct word sicne I am a digital artist learning spanish at a very advanced age and having a fine time thank-you.

Every month you have given us words to pondeer and glorious images to appreciate.

Thank-you very much.
Polly Phillips

From: "M.J. Benson"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: In the Eyes of the Beholder
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 1999, 11:38 AM

P.M.:
I was so inspired by your new article that I decided to try something new - I'm a purist in terms of my need for gelatin, plastics, chemistry, glass and the like for image making, but I decided to turn my scanner into a camera, creating a new primary source.... The Photoshop-rinsed result is attached.

Thanks for your great ideas and generosity. M.J.

From: "Roman Verostko"
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Self portraits
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 1999, 11:13 AM

Hello Pedro -
I found your "self portrait" comments and your own eye view of yourself quite interesting. You certainly make a good point. It occurred to me some time past that one could present other kinds of self documentation as well - the dentist's images of your teeth or some other medical images that are unique to the individual person. While a rather macabre thought, one might even consider the methods of portraying the identity of a deteriorated body. Such reconstructed information constitutes yet another form of "portrait"...

You might find my "self portrait " of your computer as a "Universal Turing Machine" interesting....

http://www.verostko.com/u.html
Meanwhile ...keep on with your challenging work..Roman
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Roman Verostko
5535 Clinton Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55419 USA
tel: 612 822-3800 fax: 612 822-3800
url: http://www.verostko.com

From: icons
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: An appreciation and an invitation from israel
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 1999, 5:01 PM

Dear Mr. Meyer,
during the last years, I followed after your personal work and after the work you do as a pioneer and an "evangelist" of the relationships between photography and the digital realm: I want to express my sincere appreciation for what you do and to thank you -as an artist and as a teacher- for all the energies you spend in advancing those fields.

I would like to invite you to a visit and point your attention to the on-line exhibition I just "hanged" at: http://www.melig.co.il/hadassah/jonathan/main.html

The exhibition will be accessible until the end of October 1999.

If you will find the work to be interesting, any critics from you and/or a link from one of your sites will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
with sympathy,
Jonathan Sierra

From: "AmÈrica"
To: register@zonezero.com Pedro Meyer
Subject: About "The Eye"
Date: Sun, Feb 7, 1999, 11:47 PM

Dear Pedro,
Your article "The eye" touched an important aspect of my life as a photographer, the use of glasses. First of all, I have been wearing glasses all my life. This fact can sound foolish, but it interfere deeply in the manner I see and feel the world around.

Being quite a shy person made me feel at comfort with them. The cameras sometimes are another kind of glasses too. They stay between the eye of the photographer and the world outside.The digital camera you had showed in your article has this particular use that can modify this old attitude about the selfportrait, and , can really have a step forward with this mirror like screen.
I confess I made some effort to prevent things to be out of focus using glasses, and using "smart" cameras...Nowadays, specially in my personal projects, I'm searching for the soft focus doing tricks with the enlarger...playing with odd lenses...these things aren't news, I know, but I'm intending to uneducate my eye. I'm searching for my vision without the use of glasses. The importance of the imperfection in the art and in the science could be a good starting point to work with, don't you think?

You didn't mention the glasses in your article, and actually, they made another approach to your selfportrait...Well I'm sending two photos, I wish you appreciate ...After reading your points, I observed that a lot of my work have a great focus on the eyes.
I have to say that Zonezero it's my favourite place on line.

Best Wishes,
America Cupello

Date: Sun, Feb 7, 1999, 1:46 PM
From: Dick Swanson,
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: fathers and son

hi...i direct your attention to:
http://www.swansonphotography.com/photos/dairies/diarypage.html

it has been up for two years and averages 10 hits a day...the father and son written catharsis does seem to strike a nerve....a good nerve to be sure...regards, dick swanson

From: Juan Jose Herrera
To: register@zonezero.com
Subject: Estimado maestro,
Date: Thu, Feb 4, 1999, 10:57 AM

Pedro,
Muchas felicidades, no me canso de repetirlo, Zone Zero cada vez esta mejor.
Es una experiencia extasiante navegar por las paginas que realiza tu equipo.
Te envio una foto que tome en diciembre, y que uso de background en mi nueva pc.
Un BMP...
Saludos a todos y el mejor de los exitos para 1999!!!

Un abrazo,
Juanjo Herrera

From: Jocelyne . Benzakin, 76651,2116
To: register@zonezero.com "mailist", INTERNET:
DATE: 2/7/99 7:18 PM
RE: Copy of: News from ZoneZero- February 1999

Hi Pedro,
Just got your e mail.....I must say that your emails show a lot of caring and your passion for photography. I love being on your list. Zonezero is my photo vitamins!!!

I am glad that your have Jerry Ulsman...I love his work....Will check your new sites this week. I am planning to finally put my gallery on the web.

Any feedbacks on anyone selling on the web??? Any advise you can give me would be appreciated...

Regards. J.

Date: 12/21/98 2:24 PM
Received: 12/21/98 3:40 PM
From: Gordon West,
To: register@zonezero.com meyer pedro ( register),

Please register me:
Gordon West

I am a 4th year new media student at Ryerson Polytechnic University in
Toronto (which I understand you visited a number of years ago--Don
Synder says hello!). Anyhow, I find your site one of the best on the
web, in its combination of photography and new media, very cutting edge,
while also very respectful of classical techniques and issues. I have
shared my opinion with a couple of hundred of my classmates, so you may
see more registration!

what a truly incredible site you have created. we march here in san jose, califas, with our irish comrades,and others too, every may 5th & september 18th in memory of commandante Roberto Sands and the San Patricios who defended La Raza before the word or nationality Xicano was born. We seek to repay the sons and daughters of Ireland for their defense of our people. your site, and its intellectual current flows as raging a river I have ever seen. Pearse y
Zapata y Villa y Connolly y Kahlo LO MISMO!

soy ricardo trujillo
ps mi hija emma is 6- like frieda, she too is russian, polish, mexicana y chicana y judea, I pray she will take her degree in Irlanda. she doesn't yet realize how many sisters and brothers she has there.

This message is for Pedro Meyer. Congratulations. You have put together a great concept and website at ZoneZero. I visit frequently and find it stimulating, creative, daring, imaginative; all the things I want from places I visit and things I do. Congratulations are also due for Ed Beardsley's article. I've known Ed for many years and you selected exactly the right person for the commentary. I rarely write these kinds of notes, but feel I needed to make an exception as ZoneZero is exceptional.

Thanks. -- Ernesto Lopez.

Felicidades es un gran espacio para la fotografÌa, todos los proyectos son en verdad muy buenos. Es muy estimulante para los fotoperiodÌstas porque aprendemos como formular un proyecto . Mi nombre es Jaime Boites y trabajo para el periodico Reforma y todos los Sabados entro a consultar cada uno de los proyectos. Bueno realmente un saludo y que interesante tener estos espacio. Hasta la vista estare muy antento de lo nuevo.

I have not yet seen "I photograph to remember" but have long admired your work, beginning many years ago when I was living in a Mexican village (Yelapa, Jalisco) and struggling to make photos under adverse conditions in my 12-volt darkroom there. I'll have to order it soon.

Congratulations on this beautiful website, which I discovered thanks to Yahoo's Picks of the Week.
Best regards,

Celeste Greco--Berkeley, CA
510-704-8292

Dear Sir ,,,
I'm intresting so much of your great magazine , please sir if you dont mind to send to me sample of it , I'll be thanks .
Thank you any way
Yours

khaled Al-Melifi
PO.box 7295 Salmya
State of Kuwait

Hi!
My name Andy Bezoukladnikov - photographer from Moscow.
ZonZero, in my opinion, best photographic magazine on VEB.
How I have learned(found out) about your magazine?
Business in that I am going to do(make) photographic site in Russian. For this purpose I have bought the domain www.photographer.ru, which will open on September 30 1998.

Before to decide on such step, I investigated huge quantity(amount) of photographic sites INTERNET and has paid attention that Russian photographic sites do not like me. I would like to construct such site, which would satisfy my needs(requirements). And I shall do it.

So. ZonZero has all of themes, that does not suffice to me, but it(he) not in Russian, and many Russian photographers, including I, have no knowledge of foreign languages.

By the way, for this purpose to write this letter I use the program - interpreter.

About itself. To me 39 years. Was born well Ural. Now I live in Moscow. Is married. Two children. In a photo I am engaged since 14 years. In youth dreamed to become the biologist and collected kaktuses. Has bought the first camera photographing the moment of flowering kaktuses. It has affected all my destiny - instead of the biologist I became the photographer.
All best,

Andy Bezoukladnikov

Que grato encuentro he tenido hoy...
Abro mi correo y encuentro uno de Proyecto Rayuela que me llega periódicamente, ahí aparece un link a tu sitio...
Lo demás es que ye estoy escribiendote! Por favor incluyeme en tu mailing list.
Soy diseñador gráfico especializado en tecnología. Hago clases en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Hago foto desde hace 15 años. Tenemos un sitio con unos amigos desde hace dos años + o -.

La verdad que estamos buscando, descubriendo e inventando igual que muchos en el mundo el Web.
Nos interesa el web como nuevo medio donde el diseño está por inventarse...siempre decimos que es como cuando Gutemberg estaba frente a la prensa sin saber qué vendría luego... Ahi estamos en Internet sólo con un ejemplar de la Biblia en la mano...sólo eso!
Buenas Salenas amigos.

I found the gamma calibration setting very helpful. Much appreciated.
Superb service to the Photographic community worldwide.

John S
Sydney, Australia

I've enjoyed your publication and look forward to introducing my students to it as I begin a new experience teaching digital and traditional photography here at Montana State University.
Formerly I was subscribed as james linker
I can now be reached at
Thanks!
Jim
______________________________________________________
Use every man after his desert and who shall `scape whipping?
Shakespeare, *Hamlet*
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james alan linker
assistant professor of photography
montana state university, dept. of media & theater arts
406 994-2941

hello.
i'm a photographer from tallinn, estonia who had opened digital world not far than half a year ago.
Now it's deep. Being still not familiar with PC i use internet mostly to see visual life 'outdoor' or just TO SEE. And to learn. Previous bookmark was showcase.

Now i'm glad to discover ZoneZero (kind of shoking, actually) where can't find anything seriously wrong. Great images with good page design and constructure. Even chat section looks clever done.

Clever, that's the word to describe the Zone.
Thank You very much.

vadim wilniewczyc

Dear Zonezero,
My name is Francisco Drohojowski. I am a Mexican citizen living in the US for the last 14-15 years and I love your Web site. I am a collector of Mexican art and recently have stared collecting photographs.
I am very involved with the photography department @ MOMA in NY.
my adress is: 26 Barker Rd.
New Milford CT 06776

thank you.

I will be sending you more feedback as I bercome more familiar with your site.
regards

Great content too, both by yourselves and you contributors.
Im speechless cant think of anything else.
Oh care to do a feature on me, Im an amatuer specialsing in Landscapes , Seascapes, that sort of thing, with a few close up bird pics thrown in for good measure
Regards

Clive
Photos from Cornwall site at:
http://www.surflink.co.uk/users/clive11/default.htm
or US mirror
http://members.xoom.com/cornwall/default.htm

Hola me llamo Jesus Ochoa y trabajo como director de arte en venevision.com la pagina web de un canal de television aqui en Venezuela. Tambien me desempeño como fotografo profecional y descubri su pagina gracias a una exposicion de Marcos Lopez (Pop Latino) en donde salia su dirección. Me gusto mucho la pagina tiene mucha informacion y mucha fotografia interesante que ver. me gustaria inclusive ver que posibilidades hay de recibir la revista impresa aqui en venezuela.
Tambien me gustaria saber si les puedo mandar parte de mi trabajo fotografico para ser publicado o expuesto
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Jesus Ochoa
Director de Arte
v e n e v i s i o n . c o m

quiero enviarles mis más sinceras felicitaciones por la calidad de vuestro site. lamento haberlos encontrado ahora y no mucho antes. por mi trabajo en publicidad,hace tiempo que estoy en contacto con la fotografía, pero hasta ahora no había participado en forma activa.
gracias por el empujón!
congratulations!

antonio castro,montevideo,uruguay.

Los felicito por este gran espacio que zonezero y en especial al señor Pedro Meyer,que tuve la oportunidad y el privilegio de oirlo en una ponencia en el V coloquio latinoamericano de fotografía
Sigan así,y muchas feleicidades.

L.D.G. Raymundo Olvera Medrano
Coord. Despacho de Diseño de la Universidad del Noreste Tampico,Tamaulipas.

La fotografía es una afición muy importante para mi, el encontrar revistas y/o páginas tan bien logradas como zone zero ayuda a mi comprensión y aprendizaje de la fotografía, a través de tan importantes artículos y fotógrafos que la conforman. Estoy muy interesado en recibir información en directo sobre ustedes, por lo que de antemano agradezco mi incorporación a su directorio.

Dr. Alberto Medina Chanona,

HOLA AMIGOS:
Os escribo desde Málaga, en el sur de España. Vuestra dirección me la ha dado un amigo mexicano que me hablado muy bien de esta página, yo aún no la he navegado, después de esta carta es lo que haré, paso a enviaros mi dirección de correo.-

Un saludo desde estas tierras bonitas en las que nos estamos asando de calor; besos, abrazos y otros desastres.-
Manolo : )

Es la primera vez que me encuentro con su página gracias a yahoo, simplemente es excelente, tiene una inmejorable presentación y la información y archivos de fotos que poseen están muy completos, sobre todo me encantó que por fin haya encontrado un lugar donde poder ver fotos de Joel- Peter Witkin... en fin, de nuevo, felicidades por su página.

Germán.

Dear Pedro, et al:
Thank you for a great surprise... a real site about photography and issues that just happens to be intelligent and has GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS. So far i have read all the articles in the magazine and the current "mona lisa" editorial. Bravo. I am currntly making my way through the gallery.

The "gift from a blind poet" is a delightful anecdote. Thanks for printing it. Most sincerely.
>From a photographer of many years who this past spring has finally bought a computer. And it's true... it is just like when I was a beginner and marveled at the image as it developed.

Linn M. Ehrlich / Chicago

Hello,
I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying browsing thru zonezero. I was just reading some of the editorials and the are well done and thought provoking. That coupled with the excellent photography makes ZoneZero a smashing success. As a amateur photographer, I can learn quite a bit from you zine. Love it!

Charlie
http://www.reprieve.com

Pedro,
Hi. I love zonezero!!! This is Yvette Doss, editor and co-publisher of frontera magazine, a print music and pop culture magazine (www.fronteramag.com).

I just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how much I enjoy viewing/reading/absorbing your publication. If there's any way we can collaborate and help further each other's goals, let me know. I'm in the middle of running a classified ad/online-banner-ad swap campaign. I'm reaching out to publications that might be reaching similar audiences.

Let me know if you'd be interested in something like that, or some other kind of collaboration.
best,
Yvette