Mayolo López Gutiérrez is a visual journalist and artist from Mexico City.
He started his journey in photography at the age of 17 covering a 7.1 earthquake in his hometown in 2017, publishing his images in the Cuartoscuro Magazine. In 2020, he started his Sociology degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he organized and curated “La Mirada es Política” an independent photo exhibition in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
He started working in photojournalism with ObturadorMX Agency covering politics, social issues and migration in Mexico City. In 2021, he attended VII Academy’s Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, where he developd “Soccer in the Dark” a project about Mexico City’s Aztecas, the city’s blind soccer team. During the same year, his coverage “Days in the Capital” on the migrant caravan was featured in Getty Reportage. He was accepted to the Platform of Contemporary Image Makers (PICS) of the Centro de la Imagen (CI) as part of the 5th generation of emerging talents, as well as being selected for the annual portfolio review held in the CI and attended the Documentary Photography workshop taught by Oaxacan photographer Juan Carlos Reyes in the same institution.
In 2022, his project “The Town that Refuses to Die” about the gentrification of the town Xoco in Mexico City received the “Young Creator’s” Grant from Mexico’s National Fund of Culture and the Arts and was published on the VistProjects plattform. His work has been featured in Reforma, El Universal, Cuartoscuro, and has been shown in the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. His prints are held in several private collections.
He is currently studying the Visual Journalism and Documentary Practices program at the International Center of Photography in New York City where he received a Director’s Scholarship.
mayolopezphoto@gmail.com
US number: 917 728 2111
Currently in Harlem, New York City.