Graciela Iturbide

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be…

— Graciela Iturbide

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside…

— Graciela Iturbide

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

— Graciela Iturbide

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For…

— Graciela Iturbide

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a…

— Graciela Iturbide

I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can…

— Graciela Iturbide

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call…

— Graciela Iturbide

If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will…

— Graciela Iturbide

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

— Graciela Iturbide

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx…

— Graciela Iturbide

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death…

— Graciela Iturbide

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

— Graciela Iturbide