A key figure in the transition between analog and digital photography, López developed a visual poetics grounded in an aesthetic of precarity and in the construction of allegories that place tension between the real and the staged. Influenced by traditions such as Mexican muralism, documentary photography, and protest cinema, he reworks these languages from a contemporary perspective. Internationally recognized, his work is held in major collections, and his practice has expanded into media such as painting, installation, and film, shaping a body of work that brings together the personal with a critical view of contemporary Latin American identity.