Joseph Michael Lopez - J M L, (b. 1973) was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father and a mother who escaped the Cuban revolution in 1967. He graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in 2011. Lopez began his career as an analog cinematographer on Bruce Weber film, Chop Suey (2001). His work has appeared on the covers of M, The Magazine for Leica M Photography, Leica Fotografie International, The Sunday Review of The New York Times, New York Magazine and The New Yorker, amongst others. Lopez’s work was included in the exhibition ‘Cuban Photography after 1980: Selections from the Museum’s Collection’ at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. In 2016, a commissioned series of his photographs of New York neighbourhoods, ‘New York at Its Core: Future City Lab’, was installed at The Museum of the City of New York. Photographs from JML NYC, were included in Bystander: A History of Street Photography, by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz.