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South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi in conversation with Astrid Birnbaum, recorded in Stockholm inside Faces and Phases: The Stockholm Edition at Eva Livijn’s Art Space, curated by Ulrika Flink .

For Zanele, receiving the 2026 Hasselblad Award is also recognition of the communities whose lives and stories have shaped their work. The conversation traces an artistic journey rooted in life under apartheid, activism, personal and collective loss, and the importance of representation on one's own terms.

Zanele reflects on the evolution of Faces and Phases, collaborations with Black Queer Sweden, and Somnyama Ngonyama, a powerful body of self-portraits exploring identity, ancestry, language and healing.

They also challenge conventional ideas of where art belongs, reflecting on the intimacy of exhibiting in a private home and the importance of creating spaces where people feel safe, respected and seen.

Listen to the full conversation on supervox.club

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[Hasselblad Award Exhibition 2026: Zanele Muholi]

This year’s much well-deserved recipient of the world’s most prestigious photography award: the Hasselblad award, is Zanele Muholi.

Muholi’s life’s work is painstakingly true reminder of how in societal conditions prone to overlook marginalized conditions there are no two ways around standing up and being counted for such communities, in order to make their presence heard and seen.

One image in particular in the award exhibition in Gothenburg, co-curated by Hasselblad Foundation’s @dragana.vujanovic.ostlind and @lowolthers is emblematic of the gist of Muholi’s work. On a photograph of a public beach, a group of queer people are gathered in celebratory fashion for a group portrait. Beachgoers mostly minding their own business in the crowded disposition, with the camera also attentive on a few exceptions casting curious and dubious looks on the group. Again, sometimes there are no two ways around just being “there”, sometimes together and numbered to reckon everyone else with your shared ground.

@muholizanele @hasselbladfoundation

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#zee #oostduinkerke #strand #goldenhour #portrait

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#zee #oostduinkerke #strand #goldenhour #portrait

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#zee #oostduinkerke #strand #goldenhour #portrait

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おばあさん 파송송 숙주 듬뿍 라멘 (26.10.16)
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일본을 자주 다니면서 정말 건방지게도 라멘에 거는 기대가 떨어지기 시작했다.
맛이 있다 없다를 떠나 자주 먹다보니 대략적인 맛이 연상되기 때문이었다.

그렇기에 일본에 왔을 때 라멘은 내게 있어 간단한 한 끼, 저녁 늦게 해장 한 그릇, 언제 어디서나 먹을 수 있는 그런 음식이 된지 오래였다.

그렇게 시각이 편협해질 무렵 오늘도 나름의 일정을 소화하느라 늦은 점심으로 허름한 라멘 가게에 들어갔다.

라멘 가게인지 사무실인지, 혹은 다방인지... 그 어떤 것으로 정의하기 힘든 공간에 할머니는 혼자 평온하게 뉴스를 보고있었다.

내가 들어서자 할머니도 나도 서로에게 당황스러운 눈길을 감추지 못하고 있던 때, 나는 허둥지둥 메뉴 보는 척을 했고 할머니는 급히 물을 뜨러 가셨다.

굽은 할머니의 등을 보며 내가 라멘을 시키는게 할머니를 힘들게 하는건 아닌가하는 말도안되는 고민을 할 무렵, 할머니는 꽉 찬 물잔을 넘치기 직전으로 흔들거리며 가져오고 계셨다.

그 장면마저 나는 잠시 죄의식을 느끼며 물을 받으러 카운터로 뛰어갔고 목말랐던 나는 파향이 살짝 풍기는(왜났지?) 얼음물을 원샷 때리곤 가장 단촐해보이는 메뉴로 할머니께 부탁드렸다.

10분이 채 지났을까 할머니는 다시 굽은 등으로 라멘을 흔들거리며 가져오셨고 이번엔 당황하지 않고 조심스레 할머니께 라멘을 받아 자리로 돌아왔다.

라멘을 한 입 먹고나서 든 생각은 ‘이거 왜 얼큰하냐‘ 였다.
전형적인 일본 라멘의 맛과 같이 스프는 꽤 짭잘했고 적당한 기름기가 있었으며 차슈는 통통했는데...이상하게 얼큰했다.

다시 보니 할머니가 넣으신 쪽파 향이 생각보다 센 데다 후추 향까지 좋아서, 투박하지만 매력적인 얼큰한 라멘이 된 거였다.

들어선 순간부터 맛까지 모든 게 의외의 연속이라, 이 가게를 사진으로 남겨 기억하고 싶어졌다.

혹시 사진 한 컷 찍어도 될지 여쭤보니 할머니는 흔쾌히 허락하시며 굽은 등을 최대한 펴셨고, 그렇게 어색한 표정과 함께 사진이 기록되었다.

사실 이 가게가 ‘인생 라멘’이라거나 ‘꼭 추천하고 싶은 맛’이라서 쓰는건 아니고 자주 다닌다 해봐야 고작 여행객일 뿐인 내가, 일본인들에게는 국밥과도 같은, 생김새도 맛도 제각각인 라멘을 대충 안다고 생각했었는데...

그 생각이 할머니로 인해 바뀌게 되었고 나한테 꽤나 여운있는 추억으로 남을 것 같아 기록을 남겨본다.

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This morning. Installing the bronze plate in the square of Place de la Republique. Inauguration tomorrow! #enoförutsedddetalj #daguerréotype #

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Fint reportage av @petra.c.reportage i Helsingborgs Dagblad om Daguerre projektet ”En oförutsedd detalj”. Samt bra inslag i Kulturnyheterna. Nu sitter vi på ett café i Paris och numrerar den lilla Booklet som ska delas ut till gästerna på invigningen på torsdag. #det drar ihop sig
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Grattis Zanele Muholi – Hasselbladspristagare 2026! Den sydafrikanska fotografen Zanele Muholi tilldelades nyligen Hasselbladspriset 2026 vid en högtidlig ceremoni i Göteborg. På plats för att fira årets pristagare fanns bland andra Jonas Berg, ordförande för SFF, och Simon Mlangeni-Berg, ordförande för Fotoförfattarna.

I samband med prisutdelningen öppnar Hasselbladstiftelsen / Hasselblad Foundation en separatutställning med verk av Zanele Muholis fotoserier, däribland Faces and Phases och Somnyama Ngonyama. Utställningen visas 10 oktober 2026 - 4 april 2027.

Prisceremonin ägde rum den 9 oktober i Göteborg. H.K.H. Prins Daniel överlämnade priset och Mark Levengood var konferencier.

Foto: Nkuli Mlangeni/ Jonas Berg.

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Celebration of an extraordinary photography artist and activist and now also a Hasselblad Award 2026 recipient Zanele Muholi @muholizanele 🏅📷 Photo: @fotografemelieasplund

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On Friday, 9 October, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi received the 2026 Hasselblad Award in Gothenburg, Sweden, one of the most prestigious international honours in photography.

The celebrations included a preview of Muholi’s major solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center, attended by HRH Prince Daniel of Sweden, Patron of the Hasselblad Foundation, and fellow Hasselblad Award laureate Ingrid Pollard. The exhibition is now open to the public until 4 April 2027.

In their acceptance speech, Muholi reflected on the significance of this recognition for Queer communities, particularly those who continue to face discrimination, violence and erasure across Africa:

“This is not about me, this is not for me, this is for all of us.”

The honour comes as Muholi marks 20 years of ‘Faces and Phases’, the landmark portrait project that has grown from its beginnings in South Africa into an expansive, living archive of Black LGBTQIA+ lives across the world. The award recognises both Muholi’s extraordinary contribution to photography and the enduring social and political significance of their work as a visual activist.

The programme continues on Tuesday, 13 October, with an artist talk at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, coinciding with Muholi’s development of a new local chapter of ‘Faces and Phases’.

For Southern Guild, it is especially meaningful to witness this recognition of a practice that has insisted, for more than two decades, that these lives and histories belong within the history of photography.

Our heartfelt congratulations to Muholi on this extraordinary achievement!

Read more about Muholi’s institutional exhibitions and programmes across Europe via the link in bio (under NEWS).

Images courtesy of Carina Gran, Emelie Asplund, and Southern Guild

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Don’t you love it when your mind and soul pause at something exceptional…✨

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