Dayanita Singh Wins Hasselblad Foundation’s $206,500 Photography Prize

With her biggest survey to date set to open at Berlin’s Gropius Bau museum later this month, Dayanita Singh has won one of the world’s top photography prizes. On Wednesday, the Hasselblad Foundation said that Singh had won its 2022 Hasselblad Prize, which this year comes with 2 million Swedish krona, or about $206,500—a sum that’s about two times bigger than the amount awarded in past years.
Singh, who is based in New Delhi, is the first artist of South Asian descent to w