Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination The Photography Workshop Series

Graciela Iturbide (born in Mexico City, 1942) is one of the most celebrated and prolific figures in photography, best known for her powerful photographs of Mexico. Her work is collected in museums around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. She has published several monographs, including Images of the Spirit (Aperture, 1996), Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Other Photographs (2006), and Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico (2019). She has won the prestigious Hasselblad Award, as well as the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alfonso Morales Carrillo is a writer, curator, and editor, known for his work organizing and researching photographic archives. He has written numerous articles and essays on photography in Mexico and coordinated national and international exhibitions on a wide range of topics related to Mexican popular culture, from circus to cinema. He graduated from Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales and Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, and is a founding member of the Centro de Información Gráfica at Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City.

Mauricio Maillé has developed audiovisual projects in photography and cinema for museums, public spaces, editorial publications, and digital platforms for twenty-five years. He has worked as an organizer, curator, editor, and exhibition designer; he has also served as director of visual arts at Fundación Televisa, where he designed more than fifty exhibitions and collaborated in the creation of new museums and cultural spaces.