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Graciela Iturbide: 'An abstraction of the mind'

The Mexican photographer only shoots 'what surprises and provokes an emotion that I want to capture'

Whether capturing Frida Kahlo's house, wild dogs in India or the Seri people in Mexico's Sonara desert, Graciela Iturbide presents the world in black in white - or as she describes it, as "an abstraction of the mind."

Travelling with her camera every day and often living with her subjects for months, Iturbide says that her process is similar to that of a travel photographer, except that she only shoots "what surprises and provokes an emotion that I want to capture."

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