Fashion Photography

Fashion Photography is evolving. Fashion images are no longer viewed passively and the line between image capture and image creation are blurring. Your role as tomorrows Fashion Photographer is to imagine both new possibilities for the creator, and new experiences for the viewer. Then bring them to life.

Using both traditional and cutting-edge, immersive approaches to picture-making, this course provides you with critical, ethical and professional tools to express your identity and create new and better visions of the world. Through live and simulated assignments, you’ll be collaborating with dancers, film-makers, musicians, games designers and more. You’ll be learning from an award winning academic team who’s client lists include amongst others Vogue, i-D, Rolling Stone, GQ, Paul Smith, Levis and Swiss Army. Working together you will be creating, pitching and submitting work direct to Publishers, Art Directors, Art-Buyers and Designers, as well as entering International Competitions.

During the three years you will experience every moment of the creative process, from inspiration to concept development. From pitch to production. You will learn how to control light in-camera, in the studio, on location and in post-production. You’ll capture beautiful images and create seductive experiences. You’ll work in stills, in film, in-game, online and more, you’ll help define how we’ll experience the future of Fashion Photography.

Key features

• Collaborate with real-world clients: Develop your professional skills through live projects, industry competitions, and collaborations with organisations. You will also benefit from our guest lecturer series, with speakers from a range of photographic practices.

• Present your work to industry: During your time here, you will be given the opportunity to showcase your work to members of the creative industries and develop a professional portfolio tailored to your own career aspirations.

• Gain hands-on industry experience: You’ll have the opportunity to complete a work experience placement of up to a year in length. Dependent on the duration of your placement, you could gain an additional Diploma or Certificate in Professional Practice.

Employability

The course prepares you for a career in Fashion photography or photo-related activities. Depending on your particular interest, you will identify your practice, and research picture agencies, image libraries, organisations, and photographers' agents.

You'll learn about proposals and CVs; how to cost your work; how to prepare estimates and invoices; and your rights, responsibilities and obligations as a photographer.

You’ll enhance your employability through things like live projects, guest lectures, industry visits, and work experience.

Students work across a range of creative industries when they graduate. Roles include:

• Fashion Photographer

• Product Photographer​

• Art Director​

• Director of Photography​

• Art Buyer​

• Photo Editor​

• Content Production​

• Location Scout​

• Retoucher​

• Lighting Director​

• Campaign Designer​

• Visual Strategist​

• Entrepreneur / Business Owner / Change Agent

Course Modules

[Year One]

• Fashion Behind the Lens

• Fashion Beyond the Lens

• History, Context and Near-Future of Photography

[Year Two]

• CoLab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking

• Fashion Assignments

• Fashion Lab

• Optional Module - Optional modules are mandatory across all our courses and enable you to personalise your studies by choosing one module from up to eight optional modules

[Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)*]

We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year (Sandwich) and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. If you are successful in securing a placement you will have the chance to gain an additional Certificate or Diploma in Professional Practice, dependent on duration.

The additional placement year incurs a fee. For international students considering the transfer to the 4-yr SW route it’s important to seek advice from the International Student Support team and the Home Office regarding any potential visa implications and costs. For UK students, advice should also be sought regarding SLC eligibility, if applicable.

• If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will still need to apply for this course with the full-time UCAS code: W641

[Final Year]

• Sketchpad

• Launchpad

• The Recent Past and Near Future of Creative Storytelling

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/ba-fashion-photography?year=2027#module-information