Born in 1923, Ignacio Lopez Bocanegra, Nacho Lopez was a photojournalist. He was from Tampico, Tamaulipas and went to Instituto de Artes y Ciencias Cinemato-graficas, learning photography primarily from Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
His photojournalism career focused on shots for magazines. Lopez was too constrained by photojournalism, however, and branched out to documentaries and news stories, and photo essays (series of photos with captions telling a story). He felt photography was not meant to adorn walls but to "make obvious the ancestral cruelty of man against man, the greatness of (man's) love for things, and everyday things". He took pictures of prisoners, the poor, the marginalized. He also set up scenarios and documented observers' reactions.
Even though he worked in the field for only a decade or so, Lopez is considered a major influence to photojournalism. He is recognized internationally and a major retrospective of his work was held in 2008.
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