Study Details: 1 Year Full-time
This Masters is focused on developing your critical and creative photographic practice. It approaches photography as an expanded art form, holding space for its many intersections with other mediums and practices, including but not limited to moving image, CGI, installation, sculpture, performance and technology.
Photography as an art form is undergoing a radical transformation in its contemporary encounter with new technologies such as CGI and Generative AI. This moment also sees a resurgence in artists using traditional analogue technologies and approaches a counterpoint to the increasing quantity and decreasing legibility of the images flooding our everyday lives. With specialist training and facilities in both cutting-edge digital and traditional analogue processes, the MA in Photography Practice encourages you to fully embrace the complexities and opportunities that image-making poses at this exciting point in time.
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject as well a level of practical experience in a relevant area.
You will also be required to provide a photographic portfolio (10-20 pictures or relevant media) and a five minute video or screen recording where you talk about and present your portfolio.
You might also be considered for the programme if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but you have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.
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Graduates from the programme are extremely successful, with finalists working commercially, developing as artists or continuing to enlarge their academic knowledge. During the course, particular attention is given to the development of the individual voice. This, plus students' exposure to a range of technologies, means that our graduates can step into the arena of their choice, or sometimes of their making.
Here are just some examples of the sorts of careers graduates have gone onto:
All students take the following modules:
Image Construction, Manipulation, and Management 60 credits
The Ascent of the Image 15 credits
Photography and After 15 credits
Portfolio/Project/Viva Voce 90 credits
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