MADRID — Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain’s 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts for her pictures that for many years have captured “the social actuality not solely of Mexico, but additionally of many locations,” prize organizers stated Friday.
Iturbide turned well-known internationally for her sparse, cinematic and principally black-and-white pictures of Indigenous societies in Mexico, with a selected concentrate on the position of girls in them.
In “Our Girl of the Iguanas,” one in all Iturbide’s best-known pictures printed in 1979, an Indigenous Zapotec lady in southern Mexico carries dwell iguanas on her head that kind the form of a crown.
The award’s jury stated that Iturbide’s pictures have “a documentary side” that present “a hypnotic world that appears to lie on the brink between actuality at its harshest and the grace of spontaneous magic.”
Iturbide’s work has been displayed on this planet’s main artwork establishments, together with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork and lots of extra. Her work has been printed in quite a few books.
The photographer, born in Mexico Metropolis in 1942, traveled all through Latin America throughout her profession, but additionally to India, Madagascar, Hungary, Germany, France america and elsewhere.
The 50,000-euro ($57,000) Princess of Asturias Award is one in all a number of annual prizes masking areas, together with arts, literature, science and sports activities.
The awards ceremony, presided over by Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, and accompanied by Princess Leonor, takes place every fall within the northern Spanish metropolis of Oviedo.
