The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to continue its recognition of women that have made a lasting impact on photography by announcing legendary photographer Graciela Iturbide as the 2025 ICP Spotlights honoree. Iturbide, whose profound and poetic work has shaped the way we see the world, will be in conversation with Karla Martínez de Salas, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Mexico and Latin America. The benefit will coincide with Iturbide’s much-anticipated retrospective, Serious Play, on view at ICP this fall.
This intimate dialogue will shed new light on Iturbide’s practice, her feminist lens, her exploration of cultural identity, and the surprising ways her work has intersected with fashion and style. Timed with her retrospective, the program offers a rare opportunity to hear Iturbide reflect on her life’s work and the stories behind her iconic images.
The 2025 Spotlights Benefit is led by its co-chairs Almudena Legorreta and Stefano Tonchi, with the support of its host committee Deborah Brown, Kathy Chia, Judy Glickman Lauder, Terry Greenberg, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Marjorie Rosen, ROSEGALLERY, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York & San Antonio, Pat Schoenfeld, Spencer Throckmorton Gallery, Elizabeth B. Walton, and Alice Sachs Zimet.
Since 2012, ICP’s annual Spotlights Benefit has celebrated women in the visual arts, particularly those working in photography and film. Through engaging and intimate conversations addressing critical contemporary issues, this benefit highlights diverse voices and generates essential funding for ICP's education and exhibition programs.
All proceeds from the Spotlights Benefit support ICP’s Women Artists in Focus Fund, dedicated to amplifying the voices and vision of women and non-binary artists in photography. The Fund supports landmark exhibitions, commissions new work, and ensures the inclusion of women and non-binary artists in ICP’s public programs. By contributing, supporters join a passionate community committed to keeping women’s voices central to the stories photography tells.
Past Spotlights honorees include Kathy Ryan, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Nadia Hallgren, Deana Lawson, Lindsay Peoples-Wagner, Mickalene Thomas, Lynsey Addario, Laurie Simmons, Lauren Greenfield, Carrie Mae Weems, and Shirin Neshat.
A landmark exhibition, Serious Play is organized in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Carlos Gollonet, Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE.
Graciela Iturbide, Angelita, Sonora, 1979. Collection Fundación MAPFRE. © Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of the local communities in her native Mexico. In 1979, she published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico), as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she studied fi lm at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográfi cos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1969, where she was infl uenced by the acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She has received several awards, including the Hasselblad and the William Klein Award. This year, she received the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025.
www.gracielaiturbide.org
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