Alex Lopez

Raised in New York City, Alex has chronicled workers, performers, all classes and ethnicities of everyday people surrounded by urban landscape, decay, vibrancy and commerce, street culture, street smells, festivities and celebrations.

With reverence, he isolates people from their settings and in doing so, illuminates and records a piece of cultural history within the commonplace. The images convey ease and familiarity; sometimes irony, but always timelessness.?

"I photograph because I want to get inside of the experiences that allow me to understand different people and everything they bring with them to New York City. I want to pay respect to their symbols, foods, stories, sounds, traditions and emotions that we all have in common."

Sol Leiter, Gary Winogrand, Andre Kertesz, Rene Magritte,

street photography, new york city, coney island, queens, brooklyn, new york streets