In providing spaces for exploration and reflection in relation to publics, visual strategies and the contextual location of independent work, the course presents a distinctive way for you to explore the possibilities of your work alongside a longitudinal development of your core practice.

• You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity2 designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See 'Modules' section for more information.
• The course challenges you to imagine, and work with, new audiences, processes and professional futures in order to enter into a sustainable and flexible career working with images.

 

Why you should study this course

The Photography MA course aims to offer you an exciting curriculum which emphasises support of your unique practice, and how it relates to our professional and social responsibilities as image-makers.

• The course represents a freedom to experiment whilst also sharpening a specific and dedicated practice, standing you in great stead for a variety of roles after graduation.
• The course will challenge traditional epistemologies of what both the photograph, and photography, is. It will ask you to question the interstices of photography and object, photography and space, as well as medium and genre boundaries.
• Together, we will explore the connection between the making, and the making public, of photographic work and processes. With a foundation of investigation and accompanying theoretical analysis, you will have the opportunity2 to develop and test your own publishing models which seek to connect work to appropriate and defined readerships.
• You can expect to interrogate the manner in which images perform different roles for different purposes and how they contribute to our understanding of the world, its geography, inhabitants and social structures.
• All members of the course team have extensive pedagogical experience alongside research profiles that position them as experts in particular areas of photographic practice – spanning family photography and the role of the studio, through photobooks and their readers, to photography as a participatory practice and the materiality of the archive (staff are subject to change).