About this course
Use your camera as a passport for opening doors and as your tool to explore and understand the cultures, people, and places you encounter abroad. In this course, you will learn to research and tell your own individual stories with photography. Through workshops and excursions outside the classroom, you will practice and develop the skills to dive into different cultures and use your camera as a medium for understanding a community and telling their stories through photographs.
Syllabus
Syllabus – Spring 2025
Go to syllabusThis is a draft syllabus. The final syllabus will be available here a few days prior to the new course’s first start date.
Recommended experience
Bring a camera. It is recommended to bring a digital camera other than a phone.
Faculty
Anna Simonsson
FacultyStudied photojournalism at Nordens Fotoskola (2002). Since then she has worked full time with photojournalism and is specialized in portraits and stories. Anna works mostly for magazines and union newspapers and was the photo editor of the now closed magazine Ingenjören. In 2010 and 2012 she won the Best Photo Award at the Union Press Day. With DIS since 2018.