Graciela Iturbide's surrealist take on Mexico

"In the images of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, mystical forces seem to be at work. A woman walks through a walled cemetery, her arms filled with branches; the air is so thick with flying birds that she seems to be navigating a biblical plague. Can we believe what we're seeing? Are these scenes for real? The contest between mystical visions and things more knowable is the throughline in an invigorating exhibition that has just arrived at The Photographer's Gallery in London. It is Iturbide's first retrospective in the UK for more than a decade." - Andrew Dickinson, Financial Times