RESIDENCY

Twice a year Landskrona Foto Residency welcomes an early to mid-career photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media, who wishes to further and challenge their practice, to Landskrona, to engage in a project related to the city.

PRACTICAL INFO

Our residency program is an opportunity for a non-Swedish photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens based media to have time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. The residency takes place for 6 weeks during the spring and in the autumn. The residency photographer receives a grant of 15000 SEK (approx. 1500 EUR), travel expenses to and from the home country (economy only), an apartment in Landskrona, and an office space with Landskrona Foto crew. Landskrona Foto connects the photographer in residency with regional-based photographers, artists and other art professionals through meetings, mentoring, exhibition openings and other networking opportunities.

OPEN CALL SPRING RESIDENCY 2025 – FOR AN ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

© Landskrona Foto

For the residency taking place in spring 2025 we are collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. This means that we are only inviting Italian photographers to apply through our open call. The residency program provides the accepted photographer with a space to cultivate their creative process in an environment rich in cultural resources and discourse. 

What winners receive: 
It’s an opportunity for an Italian photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens-based media to have time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. The residency takes place for 6 weeks from mid April 2025. 

The residency photographer receives a grant of 15000 SEK, travel expenses to and from the home country (economy only), an apartment in Landskrona, and an office space with Landskrona Foto crew. Landskrona Foto connects the photographer in residency with regional-based photographers, artists and other art professionals through meetings, mentoring, exhibition openings and other networking opportunities. There will also be a possibility to present your work at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm during your stay in Sweden.

In order to be eligible for the residency you must apply with a project relating to the city of Landskrona. We encourage you to do some research about the city and it’s history as well as look at our previous residency photographers works. Fill in the form and submit images of your previous work.  

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© The Italian Institute in Stockholm

The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm has always put a lot of effort in to highlighting photography, as can be seen, for instance, in the initiatives to promote young Italian photographers: in 2023 it organized an exhibition with the finalists of Giovane Fotografia Italiana 2022 and in March/April 2024 an exhibition of Eleonora Agostini as part of the Nuove Traiettorie project. At the same time, it presented names already established internationally.

During the 2024 edition of the Premio Ghirri, the photographer Claudia Amatruda was selected. The Nuove Traiettorie Project takes the form of an artistic residency in Stockholm aimed to create an original exhibition project, and in Amatruda’s case her work will be presented in the prestigious spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, entirely designed by Gio Ponti, who took care both of the architecture and the furnishings, making the Institute a museum of Italian design in the 1950s. 

Read more about the The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm here.

JURY

Francesco Di Lella 
Phd in Romance Philology, cultural promotion officer at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2022, he works as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, organizing cultural events in partnership with Swedish institutions. In 2023 he founded the project Nuove Traiettorie, in collaboration with the European Photography Festival and the Luigi Ghirri Prize, which was created to highlight the latest Italian photographic research in Sweden. 


Paola Di Bello
Paola Di Bello is an artist, who received her artistic training in her father Bruno’s studio, one of the Italian artists who, in the 1970s, pioneered a radical approach to photography. She is Lecturer in Photography since 2006 and currently she is Head of the Department of Photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Her research is dedicated to exploring the socio-political challenges of contemporary urban environments.

Her work has been exhibited at significant international contemporary art events, including Daegu Photo Biennial in South Korea in 2014, X Lyon Biennial in 2009, and 50th Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia in 2003. 

©Anneli Nygårds

Annika Thörn Legzdins
Annika Thörn Legzdins is a photo author, artist and gallerist and is educated at The Academy of Photography, Department of Fine Arts, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996-1999 and the Royal Academy of Arts 2014-2016. Thörn Legzdins has published four books, where the latest book Ephemera received the award Swedish Book Art. She has had several public art commissions and exhibits both in Sweden and abroad and was until recently president of Fotoförfattarna within the Swedish Association of Professional Photographers. 


Inga Linn Härdelin 
Inga Linn Härdelin is part of the Landskrona Foto crew, working as a coordinator for the residency program. She holds a MA in artistic photography from Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. 


AUTUMN RESIDENCY 2024

© Emilia Martin

© Emilia Martin

We are happy to welcome Emilia Martin as our residency photographer this autumn!

Emilia Martin (PL ～ NL) is an artist and storyteller working primarily with photography, sound, and writing. Rooted in the belief that the stories we tell shape the realities we build and inhabit, she explores mythologies and tales, focusing on how they evolve and transform throughout history.

Through careful research and playful, personal approaches, she challenges dominant narratives and constructs alternative, revisionist ones, drawing on her rural Polish ancestry and intersectional feminist perspectives. 

Her first book “I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears” has recently been published by Yogurt Editions.

She is one of the founders and an active member of Radio Echo Collective, a feminist online radio platform dedicated to creating spaces for the diversity of voices to thrive.

If you have questions about the residency, contact ingalinn.hardelin@landskrona.se.

FORMER RESIDENCY HOLDERS

This project is made possible by financial support from Kultur Skåne