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[Graciela Iturbide: Photographing Mexico]

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[Frida Kahlo Museum]

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[ITURBIDE, SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

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Ok, this is the bed where Frida slept.

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And many times she would work here

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which is why you have the mirror.

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She then painted and looked in the mirror.

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Also, the books that she liked to read.

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Here we have her heroes

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Mao, Marx, Stalin,

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several of them are here.

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Frida was part of the Communist Party.

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This is a self-portrait of me

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in Trotsky’s house.

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It is like my shadow with all the gunshots

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when they were about to kill Trotsky the first time.

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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky,

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Jose Clemente Orozco.

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They’re a very relevant part

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of the history of Mexico.

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We have a fantastic culture here

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because Mexico opened its doors

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to offer asylum to everybody.

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[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

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I was very close to the Communist Party years ago.

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I hid people in my house. [LAUGHS][br]Soldiers and such.

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I’m a Leftist, I have been

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close to some parties on the left

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but now I think it is time for regular, civil[br]society

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to try to fix things because

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our governments unfortunately are very corrupt.

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Here in Mexico there’s no work.

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It’s always been like this, and this is very sad.

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There’s no social equality

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and it just isn’t anywhere.

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I prefer to photograph the man in a more[br]dignified manner

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independently of the injustices.

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Politics are already implied

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when I’m working in Mexico.

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I don’t have to say “Look, what injustice!”

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because it would be sensationalized.

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I don’t like exotic Mexico. I detest it.

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I like to live alongside the community--

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live within their festivities,

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go to the abduction,

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go to the childbirth.

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I am photographing. I try to assimilate myself[br]with them.

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[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

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[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

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[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

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I don’t want to show the people

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in an objective manner, because I can’t.

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In this case,

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they simply wanted to show me

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their powerful hands--their sacred hands.

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They’re the ones that pose with such dignity.

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We have such wonderful traditions--

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such wonderful people.

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But, it’s very sad that there is

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so much social injustice

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and such a difference between social classes.

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We have to do something because

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it’s very difficult for the people of Mexico.