I Photograph to Remember

"Five hundred people in business suits sat in the audience at Digital World. They knew all about computers for number crunching or word processing or game playing, but the idea of the computer as a medium of creative expression had never occurred to them. When I Photograph to Remember was shown for the first time, nobody left the room. Many cried. In the hands of artist Pedro Meyer, the computer was revealed for the first time as a stunningly personal and powerful tool. 'Let me introduce you to my parents. Their names are Liesel and Ernesto.' With this invitation we enter Meyer's intimate, deeply moving chronicle of their final years. The form is that of an electronic photo album, whose 'pages' turn as the author narrates (in English or Spanish) the story behind each image. Meyer doesn't pull any punches, and we marveled at how unflinchingly his camera documents diagnosis, reprieve, intimacy, death. But there is not an ounce of sensationalism, not a wasted syllable, not a gratuitous image in this family." -- from Voyager