I’m Mark Lopez, a photographer and creative based in Bacolod City, Philippines. My work treats photography as an entry point to memory and identity—an exploration of connection, presence, and authenticity.

I am currently a fourth-year Marketing Management student at the University of St. La Salle, but my heart has always belonged to visual storytelling. Over the years, I’ve documented national events, led creative workshops, and pursued projects that celebrate human connection and identity.

As the founding president of IWAG Imagemakers Collective, the official photography organization of USLS, and a junior member of Performance Laboratory Bacolod since 2020, I’ve collaborated with institutions such as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. In 2025, I was honored as the Most Outstanding Student in the Field of Visual Arts at USLS Corps d’Elite.

My current project, “Do Our Reflections Ever Shadow?”, explores the fragile yet profound weight of memory, intimacy, and loss—how shadows, like reflections, both reveal and obscure the truths of human connection.

For me, photography is more than an image; it is an imprint, a fragment, a reflection of what it means to belong.