The Hasselblad Foundation has presented Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi with the 2014 Hasselblad Award, a prize of one million Swedish Krona (approx. $156,000). The award was given at a ceremony in Japan yesterday.

“During a period of 35 years Miyako Ishiuchi has established a global career, that’s both impressive and highly significant,” said a press release released by the basis. “Her strength of character and uncompromising vision has ended in a few of the strongest in addition to personal representations of postwar Japan.” Noting that Isiuchi have been a task model for younger women artists within the male-dominated field of photography in Japan, the statement added, “She has continued to innovate, explore and agitate throughout her career, both with regards to ideas and of her style and approach.”

Ishiuchi was born in 1947 and raised in Yokosuka, home to a big postwar American military base. Considered one of her first series, “Yokosuka Story,” concerned the yankee occupation of her hometown. Other work included “Mother,” a documentation of her mother’s possessions, which was selected to symbolize Japan within the 2005 Venice Biennale.

The award committee included Foam Amsterdam’s Marcel Feil, Tate Modern’s Simon Baker, gallerist Sunhee Choi, Henk Slager of Utrecht Graduate School of Art and Design, and art historian and curator Jiyoon Lee.

In addition to the money award, The Hasselblad Foundation released a book of Ishiuchi’s work and opened an exhibition of her photographs on the Gothenburg Museum of Art in Sweden.

The Hasselblad Award was presented to Joan Fontcuberta in 2013 and Paul Graham in 2012. Other winners of the prize have included Sophie Calle, Robert Adams, Nan Goldin, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman and Robert Frank.

The Hasselblad Foundation was established in 1979 to advertise research and teaching inside the natural sciences and photography through awards, scholarships and grants.

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