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WPO Honors Graciela Iturbide
11 March 2021
The World Photography Organization has announced Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide as the Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Iturbide has documented Mexican life since the late 1970s.
Graciela Iturbide. Self Portrait In The Country (1996).
"I am delighted and honored to receive this award," Iturbe said. "This kind of acknowledgement is a great incentive to continue working. Everything that I photographed throughout my life has filled my spirit and pushed me to repeat the process again and again.
"Photography, for me, creates a feeling of understanding toward what I see, what I live for and what I feel and is a good pretext to know the world and its culture."
Twenty-five images from Iturbide's career will be presented in a virtual exhibition available to view via the World Photography Organization's Web site on April 15. The selection, made by the artist, highlights significant milestones and themes from her five-decade career.
For more information see the news release below.
Graciela Iturbide: Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award 2021
The World Photography Organization is delighted to announce the acclaimed Mexican photographic artist Graciela Iturbide as the Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Widely recognized as Latin America's greatest living photographer, Iturbide's work offers a photographic account of Mexico since the late 1970s and is celebrated for its defining contribution to the country's visual identity.
Twenty-five images from Iturbide's oeuvre will be presented in a virtual exhibition available to view via the World Photography Organization's Web site from the 15 April. The selection, made by the artist, highlights significant milestones and themes from her five-decade career including some of her most iconic images such as Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas) and Mujer Ángel (Angel Woman).
In images of everyday life and its culture alongside those of ritual and religion, Iturbide's work explores her country's many complexities and contradictions, questioning its inequalities and highlighting the tensions between the urban and rural, modern and indigenous. Her photographs go beyond straight documentary narratives and aim to provide a poetic vision of their subjects informed by the photographer's personal experiences and journey.
Commenting on her work and acceptance of the award, Graciela Iturbide says: I am delighted and honored to receive this award. This kind of acknowledgement is a great incentive to continue working. Everything that I photographed throughout my life has filled my spirit and pushed me to repeat the process again and again. Photography, for me, creates a feeling of understanding toward what I see, what I live for and what I feel and is a good pretext to know the world and its culture.
The Outstanding Contribution to Photography honours a person or group of people that have made a significant impact on the photographic medium. As its 14th recipient Graciela Iturbide joins a distinguished list of iconic names including William Eggleston (2013), Mary Ellen Mark (2014), Martin Parr (2017), Candida Ho[!]fer (2018), Nadav Kander (2019) and Gerhard Steidl (2020), to name a few.
The overall winners in the Student, Youth, Open and Professional competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 will be announced on the 15 April via the World Photography Organization's digital and video platforms. For more information about winners and shortlists visit http://www.worldphoto.org