Overview

• Graciela Iturbide has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, recognizing her influential career in photography.
• Known for her analog black-and-white style, Iturbide has spent decades capturing the essence of indigenous communities in Mexico, including the Seri of Sonora and the Zapotec of Juchitán.
• Her work often explores themes of ritual, life, death, and nature, with notable projects such as documenting Frida Kahlo’s sealed bathroom and her series on birds.
• Iturbide’s career began under the mentorship of Manuel Álvarez Bravo in the late 1960s, shaping her poetic and documentary approach to photography.
• A major retrospective of her work, titled 'Cuando habla la luz,' will open on June 19, 2025, at Casa de México in Madrid as part of PHotoEspaña.