Nereo Lopez Meza is one of Colombia’s most renowned photographers. He began his career in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1952, where he worked as a photographic correspondent for the national newspapers El Tiempo and El Espectador, and for the magazine Cromos. Nereo’s photographs are acknowledged as one of the most important visual accounts of the history of Colombia.

Nereo has spent sixty of his ninety one years, traveling around the world with personalities such as Gabriel García Márquez and Pope Paul IV, and capturing presidential visits to Colombia by John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But it is in his photographic essays, deep in the Amazon jungle, in the streets of Bogota, or up and down the Magdalena River (made famous by García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera), where his genius is truly revealed.