THE HASSELBLAD AWARD 2017

The winner of the Hasselblad Award 2017 will be announced on the Hasselblad Foundation website at 11 am CET on March 8, Victor Hasselblad´s birthday. The award is given for major photographic achievements and consists of a gold medal, a diploma, and SEK1,000,000 (approx. EUR100,000).

The jury behind the Hasselblad Award 2017

The international jury that nominated this year’s winner to the Foundation´s Board of Directors consisted of:

Simon Njami, Esther Ruelfs, Duncan Forbes, Jennifer Blessing and Mark Sealy. Photo: Cecilia Sandblom © Hasselblad Foundation

Duncan Forbes, Chair
Curator and Writer based in London and Los Angeles, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London

Jennifer Blessing
Senior Curator, Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Simon Njami
Curator and Writer, Paris

Esther Ruelfs
Head of Photography and New Media Department, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Mark Sealy
Curator and Director, Autograph ABP, London

Award ceremony in Gothenburg

The award will be presented on October 9, in Gothenburg, Sweden. In conjunction with the ceremony, an exhibition will open with the award winner’s works, a symposium will be arranged and a new book will be published about the awardee.

About the Hasselblad Award

The Hasselblad Award is the world’s biggest, international award in photography. It was first given in 1980 to Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson. Among the recent winner’s are Stan Douglas, Paul Graham and Nan Goldin. Read more about the Hasselblad Award winners.