1 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,980 [Graciela Iturbide: Photographing Mexico] 2 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,160 [Frida Kahlo Museum] 3 00:00:18,940 --> 00:00:20,500 [ITURBIDE, SPEAKING IN SPANISH] 4 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:25,000 Ok, this is the bed where Frida slept. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,760 And many times she would work here 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,340 which is why you have the mirror. 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,900 She then painted and looked in the mirror. 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,440 Also, the books that she liked to read. 9 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:41,460 Here we have her heroes 10 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:44,740 Mao, Marx, Stalin, 11 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:46,480 several of them are here. 12 00:00:47,620 --> 00:00:50,220 Frida was part of the Communist Party. 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,460 This is a self-portrait of me 14 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:57,700 in Trotsky’s house. 15 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:02,180 It is like my shadow with all the gunshots 16 00:01:02,180 --> 00:01:05,120 when they were about to kill Trotsky the first time. 17 00:01:07,660 --> 00:01:11,320 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, 18 00:01:12,860 --> 00:01:13,990 Jose Clemente Orozco. 19 00:01:13,990 --> 00:01:15,930 They’re a very relevant part 20 00:01:15,930 --> 00:01:17,570 of the history of Mexico. 21 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,560 We have a fantastic culture here 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,720 because Mexico opened its doors 23 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,760 to offer asylum to everybody. 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:34,890 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 25 00:01:37,020 --> 00:01:40,100 I was very close to the Communist Party years ago. 26 00:01:40,740 --> 00:01:44,120 I hid people in my house. [LAUGHS] Soldiers and such. 27 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:46,700 I’m a Leftist, I have been 28 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:50,260 close to some parties on the left 29 00:01:50,260 --> 00:01:53,540 but now I think it is time for regular, civil society 30 00:01:53,540 --> 00:01:57,140 to try to fix things because 31 00:01:57,140 --> 00:02:00,860 our governments unfortunately are very corrupt. 32 00:02:01,820 --> 00:02:03,440 Here in Mexico there’s no work. 33 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,840 It’s always been like this, and this is very sad. 34 00:02:07,940 --> 00:02:10,740 There’s no social equality 35 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:14,020 and it just isn’t anywhere. 36 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:19,600 I prefer to photograph the man in a more dignified manner 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,780 independently of the injustices. 38 00:02:25,820 --> 00:02:28,640 Politics are already implied 39 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:30,460 when I’m working in Mexico. 40 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:33,500 I don’t have to say “Look, what injustice!” 41 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:35,720 because it would be sensationalized. 42 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:40,900 I don’t like exotic Mexico. I detest it. 43 00:02:43,860 --> 00:02:46,200 I like to live alongside the community-- 44 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:48,800 live within their festivities, 45 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:51,720 go to the abduction, 46 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:54,080 go to the childbirth. 47 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,540 I am photographing. I try to assimilate myself with them. 48 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:02,220 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 49 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:04,160 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 50 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:05,880 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 51 00:03:09,340 --> 00:03:12,260 I don’t want to show the people 52 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:15,340 in an objective manner, because I can’t. 53 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,300 In this case, 54 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:23,200 they simply wanted to show me 55 00:03:23,660 --> 00:03:26,260 their powerful hands--their sacred hands. 56 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:31,540 They’re the ones that pose with such dignity. 57 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:38,780 We have such wonderful traditions-- 58 00:03:38,780 --> 00:03:41,160 such wonderful people. 59 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,240 But, it’s very sad that there is 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,020 so much social injustice 61 00:03:45,020 --> 00:03:47,920 and such a difference between social classes. 62 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,320 We have to do something because 63 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,000 it’s very difficult for the people of Mexico.