Carrie Mae Weems is the 2023 Hasselblad Award winner.

This richly illustrated catalogue celebrates the 2023 Hasselblad Award winner, by highlighting a number of prominent works, including ‘Family Pictures and Stories’ (1978–84), ‘Kitchen Table Series’ (1990), and ‘From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried’ (1995–96).

With an intersectional approach to history and politics, Weems digs deep into photography’s multiple roles in the representation of race, gender, and class.

Published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Carrie Mae Weems: Hasselblad Award Winner 2023’, 14 Oct 2023 – 21 Jan 2024, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg.

Carrie Mae Weems was born in 1953 in Portland, USA and lives and works in Syracuse, New York. She works with photography, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation and video.  Recent and future exhibitions include MoMA Collection Gallery, New York, 2020/21; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2022; Barbican, London, 2023; Kunstmuseum Basel 2023/24.