In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.
Graciela IturbideThe unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
Graciela IturbideMy intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.
Graciela IturbideI do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.
Graciela Iturbide