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Carrie Mae Weems Awarded 2023 Hasselblad Award
8 March 2023
The Hasselblad Foundation award committee has named Carrie Mae Weems the 2023 Hasselblad Award laureate for her decades of work capturing the struggle for equality and painful history that African Americans have experienced, all under the undeniably captivating power of her photography.
"We are inspired by Carrie Mae Weems's impactful contributions to the art of photography," remarked Bronius Rudnickas, Hasselblad marketing manager. "Today, we are honoured to award Weems with her very own Hasselblad medium format cameras and lenses and we are honoured to be part of her journey moving forward. With this announcement, we are also incredibly proud to begin our extended partnership with the Hasselblad Foundation and we look forward to the road ahead together."
Carrie Mae Weems joins an exclusive group of previous Hasselblad Award laureates, including Ansel Adams (1981), Cindy Sherman (1994) and Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001). At an award ceremony in Gothenburg, Sweden on Oct. 13, she will have her work displayed in exhibition, receive $187,113, a gold medal and a diploma. And with the start of their long-term collaboration, Weems will receive the latest medium format camera and lenses from Gothenburg-based camera company Hasselblad.
While the iconic camera maker Hasselblad and the Hasselblad Foundation share their founder's namesake, the two organizations have not previously initiated a formal collaboration. However, with the 2022 Hasselblad Award winner Dayanita Singh receiving the Hasselblad X2D 100C and 907x 50C, the Hasselblad camera company and the Hasselblad Foundation are pleased to announce this continued tradition for all future Hasselblad Award winners.