Photographic The Life of Graciela Iturbide

A Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and a Moonbeam Children’s Book Gold Award Winner, Photographic is a picture book biography of Graciela Iturbide from author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña.

Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of 13 children. When tragedy struck Iturbide as a young mother, she turned to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarked on a photographic journey that has taken her throughout her native Mexico, from the Sonoran Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, to the United States, India, and beyond.

Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Iturbide’s journey will excite readers of all ages as well as budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity.

“This extraordinary biography captures the poetry of Graciela Iturbide’s photography. The brilliant pairing of Isabel Quintero’s words and Zeke Peña’s art creates a graphic biography that evokes the process and meaning of what it is to create. Highly recommended!” —Cathy Camper, author of Lowriders in Space

“Striking black and white illustrations . . . A powerful homage to the five-decade evolution of an artist still working—and still evolving—today.” —Horn Book

Isabel Quintero’s first novel, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, was one of School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014 and won the American Library Association’s William C. Morris YA Debut Award. Her second book, Ugly Cat & Pablo, was published in April 2017. She lives in Southern California. Zeke Peña is an artist and illustrator whose work about the US/Mexico border community explores universal themes by remixing contemporary and historical narratives. He has exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center, Houston Center for Photography, El Paso Museum of Art, and Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez, as well as in galleries across the United States and Mexico.