Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesias is a Nuyorican photographer, educator, archivist and curator born and raised on the Lower East Side. Her early sensibilities were formed by 1980’s graffiti, hip hop, punk and her mother’s Salsa and Supremes records. 

Zero’s work documents her beloved Loisaida while also preserving remnants of the Nuyorican culture that once thrived so boldly in her youth. In 2021, her personal photo project, “What’s It Mean to be Nuyorican” was added to the LaGuardia Wagner Archives. During that time she joined the Loisaida Center to head their new archive project, which was created to record the history of Lower East Side photographers, poets, musicians, neighborhood leaders and activists. She currently works as an Assistant Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.

Frustrated with not seeing women artists like herself represented in art shows and galleries, Zero began curating group shows in 2022. Her own art and photography have been exhibited in New York City, New Orleans and London. She teaches workshops on alternative photography and historical documentation, and has been a teaching and darkroom assistant at the International Center of Photography (ICP), The Point, The Free Film Project, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, Josephine Herrick Project and East Side Community High School. Zero is an active member of the ABC No Rio Darkroom Collective.