US EditionMexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide Wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Arts Award
- Renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was honored with the Princess of Asturias Arts Prize for 2025, an announcement made on May 23 at her residence in Mexico City.
- The award, bestowed annually by the Spain-based Princess of Asturias Foundation for 45 years, honors her five-decade career capturing Mexican culture and global human experiences.
- Jurors praised Iturbide's innovative perspective and evocative black-and-white images that combine documentary realism with poetic symbolism, highlighting projects like her 1979–1989 work in Juchitán.
- The prize includes 50,000 euros and a Joan Miró-designed trophy, with a ceremony scheduled in October at Oviedo's 133-year-old Campoamor Theatre, presented by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia.
- Iturbide was unanimously selected among 49 candidates from 19 countries, underscoring her global stature and celebrating Mexican and Latin American photography internationally.
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Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Arts Award
Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, renowned for her haunting black-and-white images that bridge documentary realism and poetic symbolism, has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The prestigious honor recognizes her five-decade career capturing Mexico’s cultural essence and global human experiences through a lens that jurors called “a profound, respectful and evocative gaze.” #ULTIMAHORA Felicitamos a la fotógrafa…
The Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded in Spain with the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts 2025, announced this Friday the jury.The experts highlighted in their decision “the innovative look and endowed with an extraordinary artistic depth” of Iturbide, whose images loaded with symbolism “not only show what they see, but also what they feel”, according to the act that accompanied the failure of the prize called by the Princ…
The innovative and profound look of the photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded this Friday with the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts 2025, for whom the powerful images of the Mexican woman invite "to look beyond the visible." The jury also praised in its decision the "own world" of Iturbide, which encompasses "from the primitive to the contemporary; from the crudeness of social reality to the spontaneous magic of the instant", accordi…
Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 83 years old) has been honored this Friday with the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts 2025 for her “hypnotic world, which seems to stand on the threshold between the crudest reality and the grace of spontaneous magic,” she reported the foundation of the awards. Iturbide owns an anthropological look—“photograph when I am surprised,” she said in an interview with EL PAÍS in 2018—in which s…
Graciela Itúrbide, Mexican photographer, wins the Princess of Asturias de las Artes award – The Observatorial
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Sometimes an image is enough to tell a whole country. And Graciela Iturbide has dedicated her life to capturing the soul of Mexico with her camera. The photographer was recognized this 2025 with the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts, one of the most important awards in the cultural world, and yes: it is a good Mexican pride. You may be interested: Guy Pearce speaks without filters! and surprises with The Brutalist Why did Graciela Iturbide…
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