WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.980 [Graciela Iturbide: Photographing Mexico] 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.160 [Frida Kahlo Museum] 00:00:18.940 --> 00:00:20.500 [ITURBIDE, SPEAKING IN SPANISH] 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:25.000 Ok, this is the bed where Frida slept. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.760 And many times she would work here 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:29.340 which is why you have the mirror. 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:33.900 She then painted and looked in the mirror. 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.440 Also, the books that she liked to read. 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:41.460 Here we have her heroes 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:44.740 Mao, Marx, Stalin, 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:46.480 several of them are here. 00:00:47.620 --> 00:00:50.220 Frida was part of the Communist Party. 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:56.460 This is a self-portrait of me 00:00:56.460 --> 00:00:57.700 in Trotsky’s house. 00:00:58.580 --> 00:01:02.180 It is like my shadow with all the gunshots 00:01:02.180 --> 00:01:05.120 when they were about to kill Trotsky the first time. 00:01:07.660 --> 00:01:11.320 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, 00:01:12.860 --> 00:01:13.990 Jose Clemente Orozco. 00:01:13.990 --> 00:01:15.930 They’re a very relevant part 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:17.570 of the history of Mexico. 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:20.560 We have a fantastic culture here 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.720 because Mexico opened its doors 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:24.760 to offer asylum to everybody. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:34.890 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:40.100 I was very close to the Communist Party years ago. 00:01:40.740 --> 00:01:44.120 I hid people in my house. [LAUGHS] Soldiers and such. 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:46.700 I’m a Leftist, I have been 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:50.260 close to some parties on the left 00:01:50.260 --> 00:01:53.540 but now I think it is time for regular, civil society 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:57.140 to try to fix things because 00:01:57.140 --> 00:02:00.860 our governments unfortunately are very corrupt. 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:03.440 Here in Mexico there’s no work. 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:06.840 It’s always been like this, and this is very sad. 00:02:07.940 --> 00:02:10.740 There’s no social equality 00:02:10.740 --> 00:02:14.020 and it just isn’t anywhere. 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:19.600 I prefer to photograph the man in a more dignified manner 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:22.780 independently of the injustices. 00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:28.640 Politics are already implied 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:30.460 when I’m working in Mexico. 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:33.500 I don’t have to say “Look, what injustice!” 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:35.720 because it would be sensationalized. 00:02:38.220 --> 00:02:40.900 I don’t like exotic Mexico. I detest it. 00:02:43.860 --> 00:02:46.200 I like to live alongside the community-- 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:48.800 live within their festivities, 00:02:50.260 --> 00:02:51.720 go to the abduction, 00:02:52.780 --> 00:02:54.080 go to the childbirth. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:00.540 I am photographing. I try to assimilate myself with them. 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:02.220 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 00:03:03.460 --> 00:03:04.160 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 00:03:05.260 --> 00:03:05.880 [SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:12.260 I don’t want to show the people 00:03:12.260 --> 00:03:15.340 in an objective manner, because I can’t. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:19.300 In this case, 00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:23.200 they simply wanted to show me 00:03:23.660 --> 00:03:26.260 their powerful hands--their sacred hands. 00:03:27.380 --> 00:03:31.540 They’re the ones that pose with such dignity. 00:03:35.500 --> 00:03:38.780 We have such wonderful traditions-- 00:03:38.780 --> 00:03:41.160 such wonderful people. 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:43.240 But, it’s very sad that there is 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.020 so much social injustice 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:47.920 and such a difference between social classes. 00:03:50.100 --> 00:03:52.320 We have to do something because 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:55.000 it’s very difficult for the people of Mexico.