One of Mexico’s foremost living artists, Graciela Iturbide explores everyday life in Mexico through photography. She has repeatedly visited the Mexican town of Chalma, famous for its religious festivities, to document traditional rituals, often involving elements of death and the grotesque. Iturbide studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, part of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and later worked as his assistant. She received the Hasselblad Award in 2008 and has exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Fundación Mapfre, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London. Fundación Mapfre, Madrid; Tate Modern, London; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hold later prints of this image.