Meet this Photographer: The Photography of Joseph Michael Lopez

I’ve seen, like, a million books that try to capture the spirit of New York City, but I was really taken by Joseph Michael Lopez’s new book, “JML NYC 02-23,” a fast and frenzied ride through the streets of America’s craziest city. Joseph’s black-and-white pictures are high-contrast, high-drama, grain-rain affairs that find tension, sexiness, and strangeness at every turn of the corner and every turn of the page. The New York that Joseph (@josephmlopez) snares in his lens teems, teeters, confuses, and sometimes confronts you head-on. Did I feel the ghost of William Klein? Here and there, and in a good way. The book is published by @gost_books.

For the Camera Curious: “All the photographs in this book,” Joseph told me, “were taken with an analog Leica MP 0.58x and a Summilux-M 35 f/1.4 ASPH lens.”