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