Tag: Nereo López

Obit: “I’m still called Nereo” | The City Paper Bogotá

Obit: “I’m still called Nereo” | The City Paper Bogotá

An epic life is revealed: Colombia’s legendary photojournalist Nereo López (1920-2015).

via The City Paper Bogotá: https://thecitypaperbogota.com/features/im-still-called-nereo251301/

Born in a small town along the Colombian coast in 1920, Nereo López is widely considered one of the pioneering greats of Colombian photojournalism and a man who shaped the visual history of an undocumented nation.

January 10, 2020
Nereo López, One of Colombia’s Most Accomplished Photographers

Colombia’s Traveling Storyteller

An itinerant photojournalist, Nereo López is arguably one of the most accomplished Colombian photographers of his generation. At 92, he’s living in New York, and still active.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/colombias-traveling-storyteller/

Yet at 92, Nereo López is arguably one of the most accomplished Colombian photographers of his — or any — generation, always on the move as he chronicled the famous and the obscure, the powerful and the dispossessed.

January 2, 2013