Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide Wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Arts Award

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…

Diana Manzo/Photos: Diana Manzo Oaxaca, Oax.- Photographers, artists and writers from Oaxaca celebrated the award given to Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide - Princess of Asturias of the Arts Award 2025-. For the Oaxacan photographer, Juan Carlos Reyes, who was his pupil on two occasions, “his teacher” deserves all recognition. “All awards are few [...] The post Cultural and artistic community of Oaxaca celebrates international award awarde…

The 83-year-old artist confessed to having received the news in the early morning with a call from Spain The entry Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide receives the Princess of Asturias Prize was first published in La Voz de Michoacán.