Jacqueline Hassink
Jacqueline Hassink (15 July 1966 – 22 November 2018) was a Dutch visual artist based in New York City. She was born in Enschede, Netherlands, and studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Although she trained as a sculptor, she mainly worked in photography.
Hassink created global art projects about world economic power. Her first major work, The Table of Power (1993–95), photographed the boardrooms of 21 large European companies. She revisited this idea in The Table of Power 2 (2009–11) after the global recession. In Car Girls (2002–08), she photographed women paid to pose with cars in cities such as New York, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, Detroit, and Shanghai, exploring how beauty standards differ across cultures. Other projects include Female Power Stations: Queen Bees (1996–2000), Haute Couture Fitting Rooms, Paris (2003–12), View Kyoto (2015), and Unwired (2018).
Her work has been shown at venues around the world, including Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, ICP in New York, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Guangzhou Museum of Modern Art. She participated in Prix Pictet 2012, a project on photography and sustainability. The Table of Power 2 was shortlisted for the 2012 Paris Photo/Aperture Book Award and received a special mention at PHotoEspaña.
Her pictures appeared in major outlets such as the Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, El País, and others. She was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and at the International Center of Photography in New York. She died of cancer on 22 November 2018 in Amsterdam, at the age of 52.
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