Explore all aspects of what it means to be a professional photographer in the 21st Century on this degree course.
Learn practical skills including exposure and metering, digital workflow, colour and black and white printing, studio lighting, large and medium format, planning and installing exhibitions, professional photographic portfolio development and moving image.
You’ll work across the subject of photography choosing to focus on areas such as art, documentary, editorial, commercial, advertising and critical writing on photography, tailored to your own personal interests and career aspirations.
With access to traditional and digital photographic facilities with industry-standard equipment, you’ll learn how to use and adopt skills to develop your creativity, working between analogue and digital. Explore a range of self-directed learning experiences combining practice with theory, enabling you to develop your creative style and establish your unique photographic practice.
Our graduates are leaders within the creative industries and you will be joining an extended alumni club who help us to create opportunities for you in terms of work experience and graduate career prospects.
Key features
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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.
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Develop industry-ready skills: Work broadly across the subject, including art, documentary, editorial, advertising and fashion photography, and critical writing.
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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.
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Take part in global opportunities: Opportunity to apply for a European or international exchange to one of our partner institutions, such as RMIT in Australia.
Employability
The course prepares you for a career in photography or photo-related activities. Depending on your particular interest, you will identify your practice, and research picture agencies, image libraries, arts 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.
The following factors also continue to develop, to support the employability of our students:
Photography students work across the range of the creative Industries when they graduate. Roles include:
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photographer
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picture editor
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artist
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retoucher
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filmmaker
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curator
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teacher
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marketer
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community arts worker
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blogger
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writer
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musician
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stylist
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archivist
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freelancer.
Alumni have gone on to roles such as creative director at Jamie Oliver and companies such as Getty Sports Images.
