Abigail Hadeed is a Trinidad born and based artist/photographer, who has been documenting Caribbean cultural traditions, environments and peoples for over 30 years.She is an outlier at heart, drawn to the overlooked: people on the periphery, mundane objects, flowers long past their bloom. Hadeed’s work seeks to advance concerns of the history of the wider Caribbean, a complex story of slavery, migration, mercantilism, trade, transportation, transmigration and alienation. She continues to strive to put a face to what history has denied; to interrogate Caribbean culture at the crossroads of an unresolved past and an impending future.
In 2020 Hadeed received two honourable mentions for her work in the International Photography Awards (The Island and I are One) and the Budapest Photography Awards (Still Life Still Lives - Not so Enchanted). In 2021, Cornell University’s Dark Laboratory awarded Hadeed’s ‘Warriors of Huracán’ with the first prize in the inaugural photography
awards. Hadeed has also represented Trinidad and Tobago at 1998 São Paulo Biennial and the 2006 Havana Biennial.
