The big picture: Joseph Michael Lopez’s Manhattan moment

The New York-based photographer glimpses people caught in the glare of big-city street life, a place conflicted between epiphany and dystopiaJoseph Michael Lopez lived in New York until the age of four, when he left for Miami with his mother, who had emigrated from Cuba. He returned to the city as an adult, with a camera, at first assisting Bruce Weber, the great fin de siècle myth-maker of the advertising hoardings in Times Square. Off duty, Lopez was concerned with a different kind of f