Since 1994, the Hasselblad Foundation has awarded an annual stipend to a Swedish photographer, enabling him or her to work on a project in an international environment by spending September and October at Hôtel Chevillon in Grez-sur-Loing near Fontainebleau, France.

Hôtel Chevillon is one of the landmarks of Nordic art history, having been one of the two hotels in Grez-sur-Loing to host many Nordic and Anglo-Saxon artists and writers who later became spearhead figures, including Carl Larsson, Karl Nordström, Bruno Liljefors, the Danish and Norwegian members of the Skagen Group, August Strindberg and Robert Louis Stevenson, to mention but a few. In the Hôtel, scrupulously restored, the Grez-sur-Loing Foundation (www.grez-stiftelsen.se), with its seat in Göteborg, Sweden, now rents accommodations and studios to institutions which, in turn, make them available to artists, authors, photographers, and others, granting stipends enabling the recipients to spend time living and working there. Hôtel Chevillon is not a regular hotel since the guests live in self-catering accommodations. Hôtel Chevillon is notadapted to accommodate the disabled.

The stipend amounts to SEK 30,000 plus the rental cost of the accommodation. The recipient may bring a family member at no added charge during his or her stay at Hôtel Chevillon

Application

The Grez-sur-Loing stipend may only be applied for by photographers working and living in Sweden and by Swedish citizens residing abroad.
The application deadline for the Grez-sur-Loing stipend is March 1, 2010, by which date the applications shall have reached the office of the Foundation.

Application forms and instructions for applicants for the Grez-sur-Loing stipend may be ordered from the Hasselblad Foundation or downloaded here.

Application form. (only in Swedish)

Instructions for applicants (only in Swedish)

Ann Eringstam - 2009 Grez sur Loing stipend recipient

Ann Eringstam from Göteborg has been awarded the 2009 stipend to Grez-sur-Loing. She will spend two months there, working on her project, Catharsis, and making use of the new environment she will be able to explore there. This project takes its point of departure in contemporary cinema, focusing on one or more decisive turning points in films, when the narrative grapples, for example, with a tragic event or a moral dilemma, or when there is a happy ending.  Eringstam's interest is in the utopian image of humanity often disseminated in contemporary culture. Her work is permeated by the presence of concepts such as norm, identity and ideal.

Previous Recipients of the Grez-sur-Loing Stipend

2008 Marie Anderson, Malmö

2007 Sanna Sjöswärd, Stockholm

2006 Lina Jaros, Stockholm

2005 Joakim Eneroth, Stockholm

2004 Åsa Stjerna, Stockholm

2003 Ulf Lundin, Stockholm

2002 Monica Englund, Göteborg

2001 Julia Peirone, Stockholm

2000 Helena Blomkvist, Enskede

1999 Martin Palm, Malmö

1998 Nina Korhonen, Stockholm

1997 Susann Moritz, Farsta

1996 Lars Wallsten, Stockholm

1995 Anders Kristensson, Malmö

1994 Barbara Lindell, Stockholm