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The Valentine Days (2017)
Foto: Ingrid Pollard
Photographer Ingrid Pollard is the 44th recipient of the Hasselblad Prize and a leading photographer and artist in British contemporary art.
The Hasselblad Foundation now announces that the jury has appointed this year’s recipient of the Hasselblad Prize 2024, whose prize consists of a Hasselblad camera and SEK 2 million in prize money. The award goes to the photographer Ingrid Pollard, born in 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana and raised in London. Today she lives and works in Northumberland, North East England.
Pollard’s works revolve around an exploration of racism and colonialism, often based on her own experiences and her research. She is particularly interested in how these issues are manifested in urban spaces as well as in the landscape. A central part of her artistry is the great interest in photography; its technical properties, its materiality and potential, as well as its historical use in the exercise of control and power.
This is what she says about the award:
It is a great honor to be awarded the Hasselblad Prize. It comes at a time in my life when I am older and more experienced, which gives me an opportunity to support younger photographers and researchers, which I intend to do. I want the prize to benefit others as well.
Pastoral Interlude (1988)
Foto: Ingrid Pollard
The foundation’s justification for the selection of Ingrid Pollard as the 2024 Hasselblad prize winner reads:
“Over the last four decades, Ingrid Pollard has used photography to question deep-rooted social and cultural structures of racism, identity, community and gender. Her work makes visible both subtle and overt injustices through her focus on the British landscape, iconography and identity, while simultaneously as she challenges photography and its history. Form-wise, she uses portraiture, archival material, objects and text to create complex installations. Born in Guyana and raised in the UK, Pollard has consistently worked with colonial history and how it continues to affect society, both in her artistry and as a teacher of photography. Ingrid Pollard has a great influence on a younger generation of artists and theorists.”
Self Evident (1992)
Foto: Ingrid Pollard
The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg on October 11, 2024, the same day that an exhibition with Ingrid Pollard opens at the Hasselblad Center and a new publication about the artist is published. In connection with the prize winner’s visit to Gothenburg, a seminar is arranged in collaboration with the County Administrative Board, as well as a concert with the Gothenburg Symphony, Sweden’s national orchestra.
The Hasselblad Award: previous award winners
2023 Carrie Mae Weems
2022 Dayanita Singh
2021 No prize awarded
2020 Alfredo Year
2019 Daido Moriyama
2018 Oscar Muñoz
2017 Rineke Dijkstra
2016 Stan Douglas
2015 Wolfgang Tillmans
2014 Ishiuchi Miyako
2013 Joan Fontcuberta
2012 Paul Graham
2011 Walid Council
2010 Sophie Calle
2009 Robert Adams
2008 Graciela Iturbide
2007 Nan Goldin
2006 David Goldblatt
2005 Lee Friedlander
2004 Bernd & Hilla Becher
2003 Malick Sidibé
2002 Jeff Wall
2001 Hiroshi Sugimoto
2000 Boris Mikhailov
1999 Cindy Sherman
1998 William Eggleston
1997 Christer Strömholm
1996 Robert Frank
1995 Robert Häusser
1994 Susan Meiselas
1993 Sune Jonsson
1992 Josef Koudelka
1991 Richard Avedon
1990 William Klein
1989 Sebastião Salgado
1988 Edouard Boubat
1987 Hiroshi Hamaya
1986 Ernst Haas
1985 Irving Penn
1984 Manuel Alvarez Bravo
1983 (No award presented)
1982 Henri Cartier-Bresson
1981 Ansel Adams
1980 Lennart Nilsson