Weems' outstanding oeuvre is honored with the prestigious photography prize In March 2023, Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) became the first Black woman to win the Hasselblad Award. Citing her outstanding achievements in the field of photography, the Hasselblad Foundation wrote that "Weems's work has for decades anticipated salient issues of our time--the struggle for racial equality and human rights--with unflinching visual...