MA Photography

Course overview:

Our MA Photography course approaches photography as an expanded visual discipline. You'll be encouraged to confidently produce complex and extended photographic projects and engage with experimental and speculative approaches to making.

We offer a dynamic and exciting environment for studying the critical theory of photography, engaging with practices of reading and writing about the image. Our MA Photography course also pays close attention to the dissemination, exhibition and publication of photographic work.

We provide specialist digital and analogue facilities for large-format colour and black-and-white exhibition prints.

Our course offers a balance of support that develops practical skills and fosters a high standard of diverse critical approaches. You'll take risks, explore and develop your interest, and exchange, debate and discuss ideas. You'll also respond to the diverse field of contemporary photography and explore practices of representation that engage with the still and moving image, as well as performance and installation.

Your studies will be supported by a number of internationally renowned staff in a department that encourages experimentation. Enabling you to establish yourself as a rounded professional who can formulate ideas in a sophisticated framework whilst also communicating with others, both visually and verbally.

We place a strong emphasis on publication, empowering you to find creative ways to disseminate your work beyond the academic context and into the public arena.

Facilities:

We have three fully-equipped, spacious photographic studios and lighting; perfect for still-life, fashion, tableau and other constructed photography; dedicated processing and printing darkrooms for both black and white and colour film-based photography. Our digital imaging centre including Flextight scanners, large format Epson printers with a print size from A4 to B0, a digital suite of Mac Pros and colour calibrated monitors and up-to-date software.

Careers:

Our postgraduate degree prepares you for your career through professional practice units, talks by visiting artists and portfolio reviews with figures from across the photographic industry. Career opportunities include:

• Freelance photography
• Fine art
• Fashion
• Advertising and editorial
• Post production/digital imaging
• Picture editing and research
• Curating
• Image, arts and community arts management
• Gallery administration.

Graduates of MA Photography have gone on to win the Jerwood Photography prize; to exhibit their work in The Photographers' Gallery, Photofusion, ArtSway and the Geffyre Museum as well as publishing their outputs in different venues ranging from The Sunday Times Magazine to monographs with Dewi Lewis Publishing.