Swiss School of Photography

Private. Bespoke. Fully arranged.

Your private photo expedition. Anywhere on earth.

We are expert photographers, teachers and photo-tour leaders. We bring the whole journey together, then design and teach the photography around the light, across landscape, portrait, drone and editing. You come home a better photographer, with the images you went there to make. Your destination, your dates, your pace.

Private expeditions from CHF 25,000 (USD 28,000), fully arranged. We quote the expedition as a whole, not a seat on it, shaped around where you go, how long, and how many of you travel.

We lead only five private expeditions a year, for private parties only, so each one gets the time to be shaped properly.

Raffaele or Nika will reply personally. There is no obligation.

Led in person by Raffaele and Nika·More than 600 photographers taught·Photographing since 2008

How it unfolds

01The brief

Tell us the place, the season, and the pictures you have always wanted to make.

02The design

We build the route, the access and the light around those photographs, day by day.

03The journey

We travel with you and teach beside you, and you come home a better photographer.

Three journeys, up close

A private safari. Iceland, season by season. The Dolomites in autumn.

A private expedition we led

Tanzania & Kenya

A two-week family safari, with the photography designed and guided around their dates and pace.

Two weeks, one family, a private vehicle and the Serengeti to ourselves at first light. We planned each drive around the animals and the sun, and taught as we went: wildlife settings, autofocus, lens choice, patience, and portraits of the family beneath that immense sky. They came home with far more than a beautiful safari. Stronger instincts, real confidence, and a body of photographs that was unmistakably theirs. Nothing came from a template. The expedition existed only for them.

Guided on our photo tours

Iceland, season by season

Led by us in winter and summer, most recently for a group of ten from Google.

We have led photographers through Iceland many times, in winter aurora and under the summer midnight sun. Our most recent group, ten from Google, travelled in two vehicles and photographed all the way: long exposure on black beaches, focus beneath the northern lights, composition in weather that changed by the minute, then editing back at the hotel. The season changes the landscape. Our method does not. We plan around the light and teach until the photograph is yours.

Guided on our photo tours

The Italian Dolomites

Led by us each autumn, when the first snow meets the last warm light.

The Dolomites are where we return most often, and knowing them well is the point. We lead here in autumn, when the first snow meets the last gold on the larches. Mornings begin before light at the lakes and high meadows, waiting for colour to touch the towers of rock. We teach composition among complicated mountains, long exposure on still water, and how to read Alpine weather that turns a grey hour into the best of the trip. A landscape we would gladly shape into a private expedition, built around your pace.

Where shall we go together?

Places we know by light and by season. Some we have led as private expeditions, some on the tours we guide, others from journeys of our own. Open a frame to see the work, or name a place that is not here yet.
Tanzania & KenyaA private expedition we led
IcelandGuided on our photo tours
SeychellesA private expedition we led
DubaiA private expedition we led
IndonesiaFrom our own travels
DolomitesGuided on our photo tours
New Zealand & AustraliaFrom our own travels
SwitzerlandGuided on our photo tours
SardiniaGuided on our photo tours
USAFrom our own travels
Celtic CoastsFrom our own travels
AzoresFrom our own travels
France & ProvenceFrom our own travels
PortugalFrom our own travels
SpainFrom our own travels
+Anywhere on earth

Our group tours follow our dates. A private expedition follows yours.

Raffaele photographing the Icelandic coastNika at an Icelandic volcano

Expert photographers. Teachers. Tour leaders.

Raffaele and Nika, and the photographers who travel with them.

Raffaele has photographed since 2008. He and Nika founded the school in 2018, and have taught more than six hundred photographers since. On a private expedition you travel with the people who lead our tours, and you come home a better photographer, not only with better photographs.

Gold, Trierenberg Super Circuit · MIFA · IPOTY · Ambassadors for Skylum, Datacolor and f-stop

In their words

“Going on a photography tour with the Swiss School of Photography was literally the best photography trip I have ever been on. Raffa and Nika are super kind and intelligent people, and I feel like I genuinely made new lifelong friends. They were quick to assess our skill levels and gave just the right amount of coaching. I flew all the way from the USA, and I am already looking forward to the next trip to Iceland.”

★★★★★

Joaquin, California · Switzerland and Iceland photo tours

“Nikki and Raffa make a great team, and their choice of photographic locations is spot on. Every photograph you see on their account does the real places justice. I have already done three photo tours with them, and I will join for more.”

★★★★★

Mona, Bahrain · Switzerland, Sardinia and Dolomites photo tours

“This was no ordinary tour but rather a very unique look at Sardinia. One that in many respects was a 'behind the scenes' tour that the average tourist simply does not see. Photographically it was very rich training. The group was small which maximised the experience and learning.”

★★★★★

Rustina, London · Sardinia photo tour

Rated 5.0 on Google

What your expedition includes

Everything is arranged around the photographs you go there to make.

Flights, five-star stays close to the light, private transport, the access most travellers never get, and teaching throughout. All of it, handled.

Photographic design

We plan the pictures before we plan the trip. Where the light falls, which hour, which vantage, so the frame is waiting when you arrive.

Prepared access

Permits, private vehicles, doors-open drop-offs, an iconic place with no one else in it. The logistics are settled long before you land.

Teaching that travels home

We photograph beside you, not for you. You leave understanding not just what you captured, but why it works, and that stays with every frame after.

One figure. The whole expedition.

From CHF 25,000 (USD 28,000), fully arranged.

One expedition, priced in full. It grows with where you go, how long you stay and how many of you travel, and nothing is added afterwards.

Shape your expedition

Raffaele or Nika will reply personally. No obligation.

Questions, answered

No. We teach at your level and travel at your pace, whether you are refining your eye or picking up a camera seriously for the first time.

Yes. We shape the days around everyone travelling, and we are glad to make portraits of your family while we are there.

Yes. Anywhere on earth is a real invitation, and scouting a new place properly is part of what you are paying us to do.

Then keep them. We design and lead the photography and work alongside whoever arranges the rest of your travel.

Your private expedition

Tell us what you have in mind.

We lead only five private expeditions a year. Tell us what you have in mind and Raffaele or Nika will reply to you personally.

Raffaele or Nika will reply personally, usually within two daysA conversation, not a commitment