Jakob Holdt awarded for his US photos

From The Copenhagen Post :

Photographer earns the prestigious Fogtdal Photographer Award for his iconic depictions of Americans

Danish photographer Jakob Holdt has been honoured as this year’s recipient of the Fogtdal Photographer Award, worth 250,000 kroner.

Holdt spent much of the 1970s hitchhiking across the US photographing thousands of both ordinary and famous Americans – a series which later became his book ‘American Pictures’.
In honouring Holdt with the prize the committee said he had ‘used photography as a means for shaping a public opinion’. ...



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