director & photographer
now: Tromsø, Norway │ available: worldwide
― TROMSØ, NORWAY • available worldwide
Andie in the arctic
Your permission to be present.
put the phone away, I'll take it from here. arctic and northern lights photographer in tromsø.
fully personalized sessions.
your vision, your portrait.
PRIVATE AURORA HUNT
The best nights are the ones you actually watch.
The thing people tell me most often, after an aurora night, is that they loved not having to think about the photographs.
That is most of the job. The aurora arrives, everyone reaches for a phone, and the next twenty minutes are spent squinting at a screen instead of at the sky. You paid to come this far north to see it.
You should see it.
So I handle that part. You watch, I work, and the photographs are better than anything a phone was going to produce anyway.
I moved here because this part of the world does things to light I have not seen anywhere else. The polar night, the low winter sun that turns everything gold for forty minutes and then leaves. I photograph it obsessively, which is convenient for everyone.
ANDIE SZATMARI • TROMSØ, 69° NORTH
PRIVATE AURORA HUNT
One price, one vehicle, one to seven people, the whole night yours. A warm comfortable minivan with room to stretch out, a professional photographer who has been watching Arctic forecasts long enough to know where the lights tend to show, and a genuine willingness to drive into Finland if that is where the sky looks better.
Good conversation comes standard. So does your favorite music. If you want to learn something about aurora photography on the way, ask. If you would rather sit in the quiet and watch the sky without touching a camera all night, that is the entire point.
NOK 19,000
THE MAIN EVENT
PER GROUP
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Pickup and drop-off from your hotel or a central location
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Up to 6 hours, moving with the conditions
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Hot drinks and snacks throughout
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Photography guidance on request
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One complimentary group photo included
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Additional portraits available for purchase after the tour
Portfolio rights are retained.
No thermal suits or boots provided, please dress for Arctic temperatures. The minivan is warm when you need it.
YOU ARE BOOKING THE DAY, NOT THE SKY
The aurora cannot be guaranteed, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. What I can promise is that every available forecast gets checked, every good spot gets considered, and we chase the lights as long as conditions and the timeframe allow.
AURORA PORTRAITS — AFTER THE TOUR
One group photo comes with every tour. Professional aurora portraits, directed, properly lit, and edited, are available to purchase afterward at NOK 450 per image.
PORTRAITS IN THE ARCTIC
The location is part of what you are buying.
These are not generic portrait sessions that happen to take place in Norway. They are sessions designed around specific places that look like nowhere else on earth, and the time of year matters as much as the location.
Prestvannet in winter is powdery hues and a quiet that the city does not have. In autumn the birch trees go rusty and the light goes low and warm. In summer, the midnight sun makes everything glow at midnight as if it forgot to stop. The downtown has a different energy entirely, street art, the harbour, the kind of urban Arctic texture you would not find in Bergen or Oslo.
I talk you through every frame. You do not need to know how to pose.
ANDIE SZATMARI • TROMSØ, 69° NORTH
URBAN PORTRAIT SESSION
The city reads differently through a camera than it does as a pedestrian. There are pockets of light and texture that most people walk straight past. We find them together.
NOK 3,850
Tromsø downtown · harbour · Raketten · Domkirken · street art
PER GROUP
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Meeting point in a central location
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Additional photos available for purchase after session
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Photos available in 24 hours
NOK 5,500
PER GROUP
NOK 6,750
PER GROUP
1-HOUR SESSION
1,5-HOUR SESSION
2-HOUR SESSION
10 edited images, within 24 hours
15 edited images, within 24 hours
20 edited images, within 24 hours + warm drink included
YOU ARE BOOKING THE DAY, NOT THE SKY
Weather does not cancel sessions. Life-threatening conditions do, and those are rare.
Everything else, rain, wind, cloud, snow, flat light, dramatic light, fog that rolls in from nowhere, these are not problems. They are the session. Some of the best portraits I have ever made happened in conditions that looked, on paper, like a disaster.
The Arctic does not do predictable.
These sessions are outdoors, please dress appropriately.
ADDITIONAL PORTRAITS — AFTER THE SESSION
Additional images: NOK 300 each through the gallery.
NATURE PORTRAIT SESSION
Prestvannet sits in the middle of Tromsøya and looks like a different world depending on when you come. Telegrafbukta is at the sourthernmost tip of the island, and is an incredibly popular park amongst locals.
You can choose either location, you can't go wrong: for forest vibes, Presvannet, for beaches and piers, Telegrafbukta.
The 2-hour session includes a warm drink from me somewhere in the middle, because by that point you will have earned it.
NOK 3,850
Prestvannet · Telegrafbukta
PER GROUP
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Meeting point in Stalheim bus stop
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Additional photos available for purchase after session
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Photos available in 24 hours
NOK 5,500
PER GROUP
NOK 6,750
PER GROUP
1-HOUR SESSION
1,5-HOUR SESSION
2-HOUR SESSION
10 edited images, within 24 hours
15 edited images, within 24 hours
20 edited images, within 24 hours + warm drink included
YOU ARE BOOKING THE DAY, NOT THE SKY
Weather does not cancel sessions. Life-threatening conditions do, and those are rare.
Everything else, rain, wind, cloud, snow, flat light, dramatic light, fog that rolls in from nowhere, these are not problems. They are the session. Some of the best portraits I have ever made happened in conditions that looked, on paper, like a disaster.
The Arctic does not do predictable.
These sessions are outdoors, please dress appropriately.
ADDITIONAL PORTRAITS — AFTER THE SESSION
Additional images: NOK 300 each through the gallery.
who you're hiring
The kind of photographer who gets shortlisted.
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SHORTLISTED
Shortlisted as personal photographer for a royal family. The brief was to document daily life, join every activity, be in the water if they were in the water. I said yes without hesitation.
LISTED
Listed on the official Cannes Film Festival website as a director.
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PUBLISHEd
After a successful exhibition in Budapest opened by the editor-in-chief, I got published in Glamour magazine.
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film work
Production work on
Now You See Me 3 and Dune.
I know how to be useful without being in the way.
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