004. MIDSOMMAR

June 18–23, 2026
Six days. Two countries. One sun that refuses to set.

We roadtrip from Copenhagen to Stockholm over six days built around the summer solstice: endless light, a Swedish national celebration of it, and the longest golden hour of the year.

  • This isn’t about collecting capitals. It’s about crossing a bridge — the Øresund — and watching a geographic border dissolve the way a border inside us sometimes does when we’re far from home.

    We’re going north to meet the longest days of the year, six of them, gathered around the summer solstice. Midsommar is the Swedish celebration of light, held in the countryside when night barely arrives. The golden hour stretches into the entire evening. A whole country sets long tables outdoors, crowns its hair with flowers, and celebrates the sun. We are photographers. How could we not want to see a country celebrate light?

    Denmark gives us Copenhagen — gastronomy, fashion, design as a way of living, and a full opening day to read it with cameras in hand. Sweden gives us pine forests, the descendants of Vikings, and a cold summer light unlike anywhere else. Gotland, the island in between, gives us a remote hotel we’ve been dreaming about for months — one we’d rather not spoil in advance. The kind of place that decides the photograph before you’ve raised the camera. Stockholm gives us the closing chapter: a city shaped by water and the way its citizens move through it — how they gather, how they slow down, what they make of long summer evenings. A day to read the pulse of the capital, and a closing morning of reviews before we part ways.

    We don’t know whether you’ll find your wind border in Denmark or in Sweden. We only know that crossing a real border, on a real bridge, unlocks something. The questions start. The photographs follow.

  • // Six days. Two countries. One sun that refuses to set. We roadtrip from Copenhagen to Stockholm over six days built around the summer solstice, endless light, a Swedish national celebration of it, and the longest golden hour of the year.

    // Two capitals, with the road in between. An opening day in Copenhagen to photograph design, gastronomy, and a city that treats everyday life as an aesthetic choice. A closing stretch in Stockholm, a capital shaped by water, by the way its citizens move through it, and by the long light of its summer evenings. The road between them is the wild in-between.

    // Guided by Lucía & Roberto. Two photographers, educators, and co-creators of this experience. They’re here to challenge, support your photographic path, and travel beside you.

    // Just 8 spots. A small, intimate group built for shared process, open conversation, and the kind of group energy that only happens when everyone’s curious.

    // Boutique stays with Scandinavian soul. Design-forward, light-filled, and deeply comfortable, including one night on Gotland, in a remote hotel we’re keeping as a surprise. The kind of place that earns our one rule: the camera stays out of the bag. Always. Even for the bathroom. The best photograph has a way of appearing when you’ve packed it away.

    // The Øresund crossing. A bridge between two countries, two cultures, two qualities of light. The moment the border dissolves and the trip really begins.

    // Midsommar, where the night doesn’t come. Flowers in the hair, long tables outside, midnight sun, an entire country celebrating light. We photograph a tradition, not a paradeon the shortest night of the year.

    // Mentoring that meets you where you are. We talk vision, voice, and storytelling, but also dive into technique, gear, and craft when needed. Whether you’re shooting your first roll / card or your ten-thousandth, this trip adapts to you.

    // Group reviews, woven into the journey. Honest, constructive, and called when the work asks for them, not just another item on the calendar. Critique that moves you forward, not commentary that stalls you.

    // The road is our studio. We follow light, instinct, and the unexpected, a fisherman’s silhouette on a fjord, a rapeseed field in full bloom, a wooden church alone in a pine forest. If something moves us, we stop. That’s the plan.

    // A collective print journal, designed by Doublepage. A printed publication arrives a few months after the trip, an edited closing chapter, held in your hands. We don’t believe in photos lost on hard drives.

    // A tribute to the road and to Nordic light. Carrying the spirit of Wim Wenders, Alec Soth, and Walker Evans on the road — and the Scandinavian gaze of Ingmar Bergman, Anders Petersen, Christer Strömholm, JH Engström, and Joakim Eskildsen. Freedom, chance, long summer evenings, and the poetry of the in-between.

    // Designed by photographers for photographers. Every route, stop, meal, and moment is chosen for rhythm, surprise, and inspiration. Handcrafted. Never templated.

    • EARLY BIRD first 2 spots
      4400€

    • FULL PRICE until June 5th, 2026
      4800€

    *These prices are for a shared room. If you want a single room there will be a +1200€ suplement .

    You will have the option of splitting the payment. Please read our Terms & Conditions for more info.

open invitation

Roadtrip, Etc. was born from an opportunity: to choose where to be. Not just geographically, but as a state of mind. We all have lives that ask for structure, routines to keep, places that hold us. But we also have the chance, maybe the responsibility, to create other spaces. Moments that pull us out of the expected. A trip is one of them. It’s the best antidote we know to routine.

Last October we drove from Madrid to Hossegor with eight photographers trying to define, through their cameras, something we called La Frontera del Viento, the wind border. The cameras were an excuse to ask questions about the lines that divide us: the ones on the map, and the ones inside. How do you set a border for the wind? We didn’t find an answer. So we’re going back to the question, this time in Scandinavia.

We meet on June 18th in Copenhagen the Danish capital of gastronomy, fashion, and design as a way of living. From there we head north on unknown roads, across the Øresund bridge into Sweden, up to an island where we found a hotel that made us dream about the photographs we’d take there. We want to see how Scandinavians live, dress, eat, and move through their summer light. Because seeing another way to live teaches you more about yourself than any mirror.

The trip ends in Stockholm on June 23rd, right through the summer solstice, the longest days of the year. Midsommar. An entire country celebrating light. We are photographers. How could we not want to be there?

We’ll be your hosts, your drivers, your teachers, and your fellow travelers. We built this trip from two curiosities pointed at the same place. There are eight seats in the vans.

Come with us.

— Lucía & Roberto

TRAVEL. MOVE. GET LOST.

IMPORTANT INFo

Everything you need to know before booking your spot.

DATES & ROUTE

  • June 18–23, 2026 6 days, 5 nights

  • Starting June 18th in Copenhagen at 9:00am

  • Closing June 23rd in Stockholm at 12:01pm

  • Route Copenhagen - Gotland - Stockholm

THE GROUP

  • 8 travelers a small, curated group

  • Hosts Lucía Marcano and Roberto

  • Working languages Spanish and English

PRICE  ·  PER PERSON, SHARED ROOM

  • €4,400 Early Bird price

  • €4,800 Full price

  • €1,200 Single room supplement (available on request)

PAYMENT & BOOKING

  • Two options: full payment upfront, or two installments.

  • To secure your spot: pay the full price, or the first installment.

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  • Please read the Terms & Conditions carefully before booking.

LEVEL, LANGUAGE & GEAR

  • Experience level none required. Working photographers and first-time camera owners are both welcome to travel with us. What matters is curiosity.

  • Languages on the trip Spanish and English. Switched fluidly depending on the moment and the group.

  • What to bring a camera you love, batteries, chargers, memory cards or film. We’ll advise on specifics once you’re booked.

BOOK YOUR SPOT  →

Only 8 spots. Once it’s full, it’s full.

what’s included?

WHAT IS

  • 5 nights in boutique accommodation, chosen for design, character, and a great night’s sleep.

  • All ground transport throughout the trip: vans, ferry, subway, any crossings on route.

  • Daily breakfast.

  • All photographic mentoring, group reviews, and critique sessions.

  • One online session to present a curated collective portfolio built from each photographers work.

  • Printed publication designed by Doublepage, delivered a few months after the trip.

  • Full trip curation: routes, stops, stays, and coordination.

WHAT’S NOT

  • Flights to Copenhagen and return flights from Stockholm.

  • Meals apart from breakfast.

  • Personal camera gear, film, memory cards, and supplies.

  • Travel insurance (strongly recommended).

  • Personal expenses and incidentals.

BEFORE YOU BOOK

  • Download the full itinerary PDF.

  • Read the Terms & Conditions in full.

  • Write to us with any question. This is a small trip, we want you to feel ready.

What People Are Saying

“This trip was the therapy I didn’t know I needed this year. Beyond photography, it shifted something inside me. It slowed me down, made me more present, and reminded me why I travel and why I make images in the first place.”

— Rodolfo Romero

“Traveling with you always enriches me deeply. It’s never just about the destination, but about the way we look together, the conversations we have, and the space you create for reflection. I leave each trip changed, creatively and personally.”

— Nieves Peñas Herrero

“My gratitude to the Roadtrip team for the care and planning behind every detail. The rhythm, the guidance, the atmosphere. You feel supported the entire time, but never constrained.”

— María Elena Velasco

“Thank you for the dedication, the companionship, and the professionalism. You can feel when a journey is built with intention. Nothing felt random. Everything had meaning, and that makes a difference.”

— Omar Mattar

“Even the parts of the trip that could have felt like logistics or structure never felt forced. Everything flowed naturally. There was a sense of coherence that made the whole experience feel thoughtful and genuine.”

— Alfredo Suels

Our Team

We built this trip from two curiosities pointed at the same place. So the most honest way to introduce ourselves is to answer the question we kept asking each other while planning it: why do we want to go to Sweden?

“Roberto, and you?”

When I was a kid — and honestly, still today — when someone asks me to draw a car, a Volvo comes out. An 80s 240. It’s my only graphic expression of what a car means. That doesn’t make me Swedish, but it’s one of the cars I’ve wanted my whole life.

Bergman’s The Seventh Seal made me accept black and white as something personal and intimate. That doesn’t make me Swedish either, but it helped forge my character as a photographer.

I enjoy long summer days because I never get used to them — every year I still catch myself asking, isn’t it too bright to be almost nine at night?

The only piece of furniture I’ve ever successfully assembled, and that has actually lasted, is from IKEA. That doesn’t make me Swedish either, but it helps with my self-esteem.

Midsommar will leave me with a lot of questions. Probably the same ones Swedes have already asked themselves. And I’ll play the Swede in response — hacerme el sueco, the Spanish expression for playing dumb. For once, I’ll take it literally.

Maybe it’s all these tiny details that make me want to go to Sweden.

LUCIA MARCANO

Photographer. Educator. Founder of Roadtrip, Etc.

“Lucía, why do you want to go to Sweden?”

I want to see 24 hours of unbroken sunlight over a field of flowers. I want to sail through fjords and feel that cold, very particular Scandinavian summer light.

I want to see how women dress in Copenhagen, take Fika in the middle of the afternoon, soak myself in design as a way of living, feel the energy of those forests, and talk to blond giants descended from Vikings.

But most of all, I want to look for how the wind blows there. I want to blur a border when I cross a bridge, and see what effect it has on me.

Photographer. Educator. Proud partner of Roadtrip, Etc.

ROBERTO MATA

“Roberto, and you?”

When I was a kid, and honestly, still now, if someone asked me to draw a car, a Volvo 240 would appear.

The Seventh Seal made black and white feel personal to me.

Long summer days still amaze me. The only furniture I’ve ever assembled well was from IKEA.

Midsommar will leave me with questions. Maybe all these small things are why I want to go to Sweden.

Meet the Team

Curious photographer and designer, I love artichokes and am living in Cologne. My life revolves around creativity and image creation: as a photographer, enthusiastically sharing my knowledge with other photographers as an educator, and working as a designer and photo project editor and curator at Doublepage. Travel, both as a vital theme and in my photography, has led me to create Roadtrip, ETC.

Lucia MArcano

Is a renowned photographer and editor with over 30 years of experience educating entire generations of photographers through his schools in Caracas and Miami.

He traveled the world with them through his project Long Distance Photo Expeditions and co-founded Doublepage with Lucia in 2023. His sharp eye and deep experience guarantee a meaningful learning process, while his energy always brings joyful moments that enrich the experience.

Roberto Mata

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