Claim: Wolfgang Tillmans was the first photographer to be awarded the Turner Prize, as well as being the winner of several other awards including the Hasselblad Award, the Centenary Medal, and the Charles Wollaston Award.
Evidence: Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts London.