The Victor Fellowship was granted between 2004-2017 to encourage continuing artistic and professional development in Photography for Master students. The fellowship is not open for applications.

Previous recipients

Recipient 2017 – Elisabeth Molin

Elisabeth Molin received a six-month studio residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), in Brooklyn, New York. Starting September 2017.

She will continue to develop her work with the project COMFORT 7/32/00. The projects is about the potential in urban images and is a unique contribution to the genre street photography.

Elisabeth Molin says: “COMFORT 7/32/00 is an intuitive exploration of the urban city as a space of intersection and interconnection, where signals and signs are in constant flux with one another. The images and my research relate to notions of entropy, organic and mechanical rhythms in the city, and the effect of architecture on the body. I’ll use the time in New York to photograph in the city and use the studio to experiment with the combination of images through installation and book format.”

Elisabeth Molin is a Danish photographer, educated at Chelsea College of Art (BA) and the Royal College of Art, and is now based in Copenhagen.

Espen Gleditsch – Victor Fellowship 2016

The Hasselblad Foundation is pleased to announce Espen Gleditsch as the recipient of the Victor Fellowship 2016.

Bau & Wohnung, page 34-35, Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret © Espen Gleditsch

Espen Gleditsch’s project White Lies is a work in progress, which he will be developing further during his residency at ISCP in New York. White Lies deals with whiteness through the mediating role of photography in the dissemination of art and architecture, and the production of art historical knowledge. One of the most influential exhibitions of functionalist architecture, the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, was documented in black and white photographs, creating an image of functionalist buildings as having white facades. These portrayals have been formative for functionalist architecture to this day, even though a key feature on several of the houses was the use of bright colours. In 1932 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held an exhibition on modern architecture that proved to be seminal in conveying the idea of white modernism.

Espen Gleditsch will continue his research in the MoMA archives, which hold unique material related to the 1932 exhibition. The artist writes: “With the project I intend to place the desire to eliminate colour from the architectural discourse in a broader political context in the interwar period, a time characterized by its ideals of medical, racial, sexual, psychological, moral and visual hygiene.”

Espen Gleditsch graduated from the Oslo National Academy of Arts in 2015.

Members of the jury for the Victor Fellowship 2016 were Tine Colstrup, Curator at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Dragana Vujanovic, Chief Curator at the Hasselblad Foundation; Cecilia Sandblom, Photographer at the Hasselblad Foundation, and Louise Wolthers, Research Manager at the Hasselblad Foundation.

Previous recipients of the Victor Fellowships

2015 Mårten Lange

2014 Lotta Törnroth

2013 Savas Boyraz  & Malin Bernalt

2012 Tonje Bøe Birkeland & Linda Varoma

2011 David Molander & Joachim Fleinert

2010 Lovisa Ringborg & Nelli Palomäki

2009 Mattias Ericsson & Mårten Lange

2008 Preben Holst

2007 Anna Linderstam

2006 Daniel Andersson

2005 Hyun-Jin Kwak

2004 Pernilla Zetterman