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

She graduated from LaGuardia Community College with an Associates Degree in Commercial Photography. Iglesias' work is focused on her beloved Loisaida with the aim of documenting her neighborhood, while finding a way to stay connected to her roots and preserving remnants of the quickly disappearing Nuyorican culture that once thrived so boldly in her youth. Her personal project, “What’s It Mean to be Nuyorican” was added to the LaGuardia Wagner Archives in 2021. During that time she joined the Loisaida Center to head their newly-launched archive program, which was created to preserve the history of LES photographers, poets, musicians and neighborhood leaders and activists. Frustrated with not seeing women artists like herself represented in art shows and galleries, she began curating group art shows in 2022. Her own art and photography has been shown in New York, New Orleans and London. Maylyn has co-taught photography workshops and been a teaching and darkroom assistant at ICP, the Free Film Project, Lower East Side Girls Club and the Josephine Herrick Project.