Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. Her career as a photographer includes documenting the lives of the Seri Indians, a group of fisherman living a nomadic lifestyle in the Sonora desert in the north west of Mexico, along the border with Arizona, and photographing the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Between 1980 and 2000, Iturbide was invited to work in Cuba, East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris and the US, producing a number of important bodies of work. Read more about her on her website. She’ll be featured in ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7 which premieres October 24th on your local PBS station. [The entire series is well worth watching!]
