ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steven Arriaga Lopez is a Brooklyn native and graduate of the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CUNY), earning degrees in linguistics and Spanish. He lived in Puebla City, Mexico as a U.S. Fulbright English Teaching Assistant for the 2017-2018 school year and is now living in Mexico City under a second Fulbright 2018-19 scholarship. Through the Fulbright Program, Steven taught at the Instituto Jaime Torres Bodet, while working on side projects at the Benemérito Instituto Normal del Estado (BINE) and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP.) He currently works at CINVESTAV in CDMX as an English linguistics professor.
As an artistic endeavor, Steven is currently undertaking a photography project involving culture and identity in Mexico. Having a Mexican-American background, he is interested in informing the public about how social class and gender serve as influences when defining what it means to be from Mexico and/or the United States, the latter country being addressed by other U.S. Fulbright recipients.
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*All photos were taken with a Nikon D7200 DSLR camera and one of the following lenses:
- Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G Lens
- Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G Lens
- Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G Lens
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