Graciela Iturbide: “Photographing Indigenous Peoples Is Not Magical Realism, It Is Life”

Graciela Iturbide was the oldest of 13 brothers in a deeply Catholic, apostolic and Roman family. She was born in the Federal District of the 1940s. She grew up in a house where it was not unusual to see bishops and members of Opus Dei. From her childhood in the Sacred Heart she remembers above all the silence forced by nuns, the monastic routine, virgins and saints, life in black and white. Her best moments in that school happened among the wal…