HASSELBLAD MASTERS 2026 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION ANNOUNCES WINNERS

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – Hasselblad is happy to announce the winners of the Hasselblad Masters 2026 competitors. Selected from 70 finalists throughout the globe, seven photographers have been named the subsequent Hasselblad Masters for his or her technical mastery and robust private imaginative and prescient.

Widely thought to be one of many world’s most prestigious skilled pictures competitions, the Hasselblad Masters was created to have a good time artistic excellence and carry collectively established and rising expertise from world wide. This yr, the competitors acquired greater than 108,000 picture submissions from photographers in 160 nations and areas throughout seven classes: Landscape, Architecture, Portrait, Art, Street, Wildlife and Project//21.

The finalists had been evaluated by the Hasselblad Masters Grand Jury, with public voting thought-about as a part of the general judging course of. The Grand Jury chosen one winner in every class based mostly on conceptual power, originality, creativity, and technical excellence.

Kalle Sanner, Executive Director on the Hasselblad Foundation and Grand Jury Chair, commented, “What this year’s Hasselblad Masters submissions demonstrated, with rare consistency, is that the most compelling photography does not simply record, it constructs. Across categories, the strongest work operated on more than one level simultaneously: legible on first encounter, yet resistant to easy interpretation. These are images that require attention, that continue to unfold the longer you stay with them. What unites the winners is a shared understanding that photography’s real power lies not in what it shows, but in what it withholds, reframes, and quietly insists upon.”

The seven winners earn the title of “Hasselblad Master,” becoming a member of the distinguished group of previous Masters and carrying the excellence all through their careers. They will obtain a Hasselblad 100-megapixel medium format digital camera, two XCD lenses, and an expanded artistic fund of EUR 5,000. The winners can even take part in a collaborative mission with Hasselblad, with their work featured within the commemorative Hasselblad Masters e-book and throughout Hasselblad’s world channels.

THE HASSELBLAD MASTERS 2026 WINNERS