Nereo: Images from Half a Century

Colombia's most famous photographer, Nereo López Meza, has spent sixty of his eighty six years working for his country's best newspapers and magazines, 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 Mr. García Márquez's Love in the Times of Cholera), where his genius is truly revealed. This is Nereo's first book published outside Colombia, a perfect introduction for new audiences to the works of this master photographer.