Ingrid Pollard is the 2024 Hasselblad Award laureate. The ceremony was held on 11 October ‘24 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Pollard’s four-decade exploration of race, identity, and colonial history is on exhibit at the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg. John Fleetwood, director of Photo:, served as the jury chair.

The jury consists of globally recognized photography experts and researchers appointed by the foundation’s board. They nominate 3–5 candidates, from whom the foundation’s board selects a laureate.

The 2024 Hasselblad Jury members were:

John Fleetwood (Jury Chair) – Director of Photo:, South Africa, Head BA Photography KABK, The Hague, Netherlands
Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska – Museum of Warsaw, Poland
Shoair Mavlian – The Photographers’ Gallery, UK
Joan Fontcuberta – Hasselblad Laureate 2013, Spain
Yves Chatap – Independent curator, France
Francesco Zanot – Independent curator, Italy

More about Ingrid Pollard, the Hasselblad Award laureate 2024:

In her four decades of practice Ingrid Pollard uses photography to question deeply engrained social and cultural constructs behind race, identity, community, and gender. Her work reveals subtle and starkly evident injustices through her engagement with the British landscape, iconography, and identity, as well as challenging the medium of photography and its history. Formally her work combines portraiture, found archival material, objects and text to produce complex installations. Born in Guyana and raised in Britain, she has consistently engaged with colonial history and how it continues to impact society, both in her artistic practice and as an educator in photography. Ingrid Pollard has a profound impact on younger generations of artists and thinkers.

From the series Valentine Days, 1891-2017
*Digital hand-tinted images*
Pollard revisits portrayals of post-emancipation Jamaica in these hand-tinted prints. The work reflects on colonial narratives that depict the island as an idyllic paradise. The artist's reinterpretation of these photographs challenges and expands the dialogue around colonial representations. Juxtaposing the picturesque with the historical, she critically examines landscape, commerce, and identity.

Posted 30 Oct

Hasselblad Award 2024