The 2008 Hasselblad Foundation International Award has been awarded to Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Born in Mexico City in 1942, Iturbide is a founding member of the Mexican Council of Photography, and her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many major museum collections including those of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. In awarding her the 2008 Hasselblad award, the Foundation said: Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her photography is of the highest visual strength and beauty. Graciela Iturbide has developed a photographic style based on her strong interest in culture, ritual and everyday life in her native Mexico and other countries. Iturbide has extended the concept of documentary photography, to explore the relationships between man and nature, the individual and the cultural, the real and the psychological. She continues to inspire a younger generation of photographers in Latin America and beyond."

Graciela Iturbide: The Hasselblad Award 2008

Arts & Photography

Westerbeck, Colin

Individual Artists

Steidl/Hasselblad Foundation

<p>On Singh’s inventive explorations of archives―with an essay by Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk<br />
This book celebrates Dayanita Singh (born 1961) as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award, considered the most prestigious international photography prize. Sea of Files highlights Singh’s consistent and unique engagement with the archive, both literally and metaphorically. The book includes Singh’s associative visual essay Sea of Files in its entirety, as well as―for the first time in a publication―Museum of Innocence (The Madras Chapter) and other series engaging with the meanings and materiality of archives. A personal essay by Orhan Pamuk explores Singh’s photographs of state archives, for him images of aura and melancholy that evoke the “texture of memory,” “an idea of poetic decrepitude and a sense of profundity.” The book furthermore shows how Singh has paved new ways for engaging with photography, be it through humanist portraiture or her innovative display structures and book objects that recast conventions of the museum and publishing.</p>

Dayanita Singh: Sea of Files: Hasselblad Award 2022

Photography & Video

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Graciela Iturbide: The Hasselblad Award 2008

Dayanita Singh: Sea of Files: Hasselblad Award 2022