# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nereo-lopez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:33.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nereo-lopez"
name: "Nereo López"
slug: "nereo-lopez"
description: "Nereo López Meza was a Colombian documentary photographer. He is regarded as a pioneer of the genre in his native Colombia. He was a member of the \"grupo de Barranquilla\", a loose association of writers, artists and intellectuals that included Álvaro Cepeda Zamudio, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejandro Obregón, Rafael Escalona and Julio Mario Santo Domingo among others. He took more than 100,000 photos in a career spanning many decades. His work brought attention to the communities living in the valley and mountainous ranges of Colombia."
tagline: "Colombian photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nereo_L%C3%B3pez_M.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1920-09-01"
deathDate: "2015-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "نيريو لوپيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereo_L%C3%B3pez"
    title: "Nereo López"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereo_L%C3%B3pez"
    title: "Nereo López"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereo_L%C3%B3pez"
    title: "Nereo López"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereo_L%C3%B3pez"
    title: "Nereo López"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17309916"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump