Half-year course

Art photography
(half-year course fall 2025)

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We also offer the course Fine art photography (annual courses):
Fine art photography - fall 2025-spring 2026 '

Get an insight into photography as an art form! We seek to educate fearless photographers technically, content-wise and aesthetically. Spend a semester learning about and understanding fine art photography. You'll learn basic and advanced photography techniques, studio work and genre understanding.

We take a closer look at how photography can be used to say something, show something and mean something. Content and aesthetics in perfect harmony. We have digital teaching, but also darkroom and analog photography electives, so you can explore that too. The year is characterized by great freedom. Here you can develop as a photographer and create a portfolio that you can use, for example, for applications to higher photography and art programs. You can come with no prior knowledge or as an experienced photographer.

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In brief:

  • Genre understanding
  • Technical and aesthetic understanding
  • Study trip to Japan

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The year starts with lessons in camera technique, composition, image editing, understanding light and everything you need to be able to use a camera to express yourself. We then go on to explore the genre of fine art photography and look at the different approaches we can take to the subject. The days are characterized by great freedom and we encourage you to work interdisciplinary. So if you want to take a closer look at collage, drawing and video, you are free to do so. We go out to locations, visit galleries and institutions and showcase our work through exhibitions. We use in-class discussion as a way to develop you as a photographer in a supportive classroom environment.  

Through introductions to photographers and ways of approaching the subject, you will develop a photographic language and practice recognizing and reproducing artistic expressions. We have a beautiful view from the classroom, a darkroom and a well-equipped studio that facilitates professional immersion. We take on customer assignments and exhibit our work as part of the timetable. We make it possible for you to do an internship during the school year so that you can try your hand at the subject outside Sund. You have a great deal of influence on the timetable and help to create your own school year. 

At Sund you get to meet fellow students with different interests. We have 7 very different courses which we believe is a strength for fotolinja! You hear jazz from the windows, the UN debates, dinner comes from sport fishing every now and then, we also have courses such as Historical handicraft, Rainforest, Street food and Expedition and adventure. This provides an everyday life that gives the opportunity to learn about more than photography, here are teachers and students with broad knowledge that is used in common subjects and electives. The community is nurtured and we work for a school day that challenges and engages. We are an old folk high school that values school values, conversations at eye level and participation.

So welcome here if you want to immerse yourself in art photography

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Study trip to Japan

We travel to Japan as a study destination for 3 weeks. Here you will get to know a strong visual culture and have the opportunity to create a photographic project in a culture that is perceived as different and inspiring. We create the trip together. Japan offers galleries, inspiring streets, food, karaoke and tired legs.

We're out and about for much of the day, exploring what Tokyo has to offer.

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  • Photographer in Japan

We place great emphasis on giving you the opportunity to work on developing a high-quality portfolio throughout the year. We use some of these images to create exhibitions of various kinds, publish them in local newspapers and, towards the end of the year, we create a joint photo magazine.

The magazines show a lot of what we work with and what you can learn during a year at the photo school at Sund.

Here you can see the photo magazine the students made in the school year 2022-23:

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Photolove

Photo is passion
Photo is hearing
It is presence
Joy and curiosity
Photo is sound
Photo is what you bring to the viewfinder
It is everything you have read, heard, felt
Photo is grabbing yourself by the neck and lifting the camera every day
It is art. Documentation and everything in between
It's a postcard
Landscape
Adventure
The glue between people
Photo touches
Photo sells
Photo is engagement
Fotolove/sundfhs
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Janne Amalie Svit

Our teacher has 6 years of education in the subject from England and Norway and has run her own photography business for years. Janne works with her own work (see jannesvit.com) in addition to teaching and has held courses and workshops at vocational schools and for the private sector in addition to working at Sund. Janne is passionate about the subject!

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We had a great class and an incredibly talented and warm teacher in Janne. We got to share so many wonderful moments with each other that I'm so happy I have now. Being able to share Japan with such a great group is something I'm so glad I got to do!

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Jakob Brandal Østringen

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Students' annual plan Sund folk high school 2024-2025

The last day of the 2024-25 school year is Thursday, May 16, 2025.

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Half-year course fall 2025

NOK 86 000,-

School fees include:

  • Accommodation in a double room at Sund fhs
  • All food at Sund fhs (four meals per day) - we don't charge extra for special diets, vegetarian or vegan food
  • The study trip - academic program, accommodation, food and transportation are included
  • Joint school trips and excursions
  • Wireless internet, copying and printing for teaching
  • Use of gym, training room, rehearsal room, photo studio, darkroom
  • Use of washing machines and dryers
  • Expenses for the vast majority of electives
  • Transport in connection with training
  • Administration fee at NOK 1 250,-

All lessons are free of charge.

 

School fees are not included:

The materials we use for teaching are included. However, if you want to make something different/more/larger than what the teacher has planned, you must expect to pay for the extra equipment yourself.

  • Deposit for key and use of equipment at NOK 1 300,-
  • Single room supplement at NOK. 585,- per month for 5 months
  • Pocket money for personal consumption

Loans and grants from Lånekassen

As a student on half-year courses (half-year lines) at Sund folk high school , you are entitled to study support from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (if you are a Norwegian citizen). In the school year 2024-2025, you will receive a total of NOK 68,950 in grants and loans from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund. Of this, 40%, i.e. NOK 27,580, will be converted into a grant once you have completed the academic year and had it approved.
Read more about loans and grants atwww.lanekassen.no.

As soon as you have a place on Sund folk high school , you can apply for grants and loans atwww.lanekassen.no.

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We don't have an application deadline and you can apply all year round. We begin admissions from November 15 (for the school year beginning the following fall), and admit students as long as there is room at the course.

Admission criteria:

  • Age limit 18 years, exceptionally 18 years before the study trip
  • We accept students as long as there is room on the course you apply
  • We focus on motivation and interests

Application:

  • Send an online application
  • We'll get back to you as soon as we can
  • Write a little about yourself and why you want to join Sund
  • It's a good idea to apply early, even if we don't start admissions until November 15 (for the school year beginning the following fall).
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What former students say

The year at Sund was really important to me. I needed time to fill with what I wanted, time to try something new without being afraid to fail.

The year at Sund can be exactly what you need it to be, at least it was for me!
Ida Marie
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