Lope Navo (lopenavo)

A licensed sailor-turned-photographer whose clients includes—Men’s Health, Dior, LVMH, L’Officiel Hommes, Playgirl, Esquire, Saudi Aramco to Nikon—Lope Navo is the founder, editor-in-chief and creative director of MAN-X and ZOO QUARTERLY, as well as the director of Navo Books. Navo sits at the helm as creative director for POP-X Agency, responsible for many of fashion advertising's most striking new campaigns—including NAVO MEN, fragrance and underwear.

Lope Navo already completed 6 photo books, starting with STARK (2009), 120 pages… 11 years later was followed by his self-published RAW (2021), 200 pages, EXOTIKO! (2022), 350 pages, TWO MASSIVE DOGS (2023), 200 pages, THE BEEFCAKE (2023), 254 pages and BRASILÂNDIA (2023), 150 pages. Navo plans to be the first artist who've published hundreds of various art and photography coffee table books and make it to The Guinness World Records. Lope Navo’s €500,000 worth of commissioned work and contracts with LVMH was exhibited among the world’s greatest artist from Peter Lindbergh, Nan Goldin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Inez and Vinoodh, Mikael Jansson to Ruven Afanador, plus film director David Lynch. Dior brought its blockbuster retrospective to Japan. “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” run at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, from Dec. 21 2022 to May 28 2023 after a highly successful debut in Paris and pit stops in London, Shanghai, Chengdu, Brazil, Moscow, Milan, and New York City.

Editor Lope Navo is no stranger to interviewing top dog photographers. In fact at the age of 26, he interviewed Mert Alas, Max Vadukul, Mariano Vivanco and Greg Gorman to the legendary Bruce Weber for his controversial blog, all face to face or by phone interview. This is back when blogs where still a new thing, decades before Zoom chats.