What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
Graciela IturbideWhen I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.
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 IturbideI never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.
Graciela Iturbide