Graciela Iturbide Wins Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award

GÖTEBORG, Sweden—The Hasselblad Foundation has announced that the 2008 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography will be awarded to Mexico City's Graciela Iturbide.

The Foundation wrote that Iturbide, one of the most influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades, "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."

Iturbide will receive 500,000 Swedish Krona ($80,000) and a gold medal at a ceremony on October 25, 2008 at the Hasselblad Center in Göteborg, Sweden, where she will also have a solo show. Previous winners include Nan Goldin, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher.