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)

Åsa Franck - 2010 Grez sur Loing stipend recipient

Åsa Franck from Stockholm has been awarded the 2010 Grez-sur-Loing stipend. During her time in Grez, she will be working on a project that is still being referred to by its working title:  "The Lindgaards - Influences aka Revenge". Franck has been working on this project since 2007. It deals with powerful influences and the creation of myths versus "the truth". The project is both about seeking the truth in tangible courses of events and living with myths and traumatic historical events.  In this project, Franck works both with her own photographs and also, to some extent, with old photographs she has found in archives all over Europe.

Previous Recipients of the Grez-sur-Loing Stipend

2009 Ann Eringstam, Gothenburg

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