After founding and managing Bancalf, an investment bank and brokerage house, in Caracas, Venezuela for twenty years López de Haro eventually sold his company and retired to Paris, France and Madrid, Spain.
In November 2005 his first book of photographs and poems Los Crepúsculos de la Imaginación was published by Lodima Press.
Notable buyers of the book have included the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Karl Lagerfeld's art bookshop Librairie 7L in Paris.
[citation needed] Los Crepúsculos de la Imaginación was included in the list of 100 best photography books by PHOTOESPAÑA 2008.
[4][5] His second book, Apuntes de la India, a collection of photographs and essays was published in February 2014 by delCentro Editores in Madrid, Spain.