This twelve image edit ranges from 2002 through 2012 from an ongoing body of street work called Dear New Yorker. Photography for me is a hunt for truth and meaning, but it can also function as a complete escape that freezes my own impulses onto black and white film. I’m fueled by a visceral hunger for expression and also a desire to make deep anthropological inquiries through long documentary practice.
Born to a Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father in New York City, and raised in Florida, photographer Joseph Michael Lopez began working as a documentary cinematographer, notably on the critically acclaimed Bruce Weber film, Chop Suey. Lopez’s recent solo work gravitates toward filmic still images, book forms, haptic installation and has been exhibited in New York and Berlin. He studied with photographer Danny Lyon and at Columbia University, he holds an M.F.A. Lopez’s work has appeared on the cover of the Sunday Review of The New York Times and he is a contributor to Agence VU’
Lopez works and lives in New York City.
