Over the years, the Hasselblad Foundation has awarded many stipends for implementation of projects in photography, both purely theoretical research and artistic development projects. Between 1998 and 2003 funding was allocated to a major project: "Women Photographers - European Experience," carried out in collaboration between the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Gothenburg and the Hasselblad Center. The project gave rise to an exhibition shown at the Hasselblad Center in 2003. It later toured to the Museum of Work in Norrköping, the  museum Jamtli in Östersund and the Västerås Art Museum. The book Women Photographers - European Experience was published in 2004, as volume 15 of Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture.

The collection of the Hasselblad Foundation includes a number of photographs by South African photographer Ernest Cole, who documented apartheid between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s. His book, House of Bondage, was published in New York in 1967 and in London in 1968. His pictures, among the best from South Africa during the time period in question, are a true treasure from the historical point of view as well as in terms of their content and esthetics.
One of our ongoing research projects is documenting the life of Ernest Cole in as much detail as possible, and collecting material to make public in the form of both an exhibition and a book.