Photography MA

This course offers a unique opportunity for photographers to develop a major body of practical work. Your work will engage with the photographic image within the context of:

• a critical understanding of contemporary photography and visual culture; and
• the highly successful and distinctive range of postgraduate courses delivered within the School of Fine Art.

What will you study?

The Photography MA covers a broad range of photographic practices and technologies. It provides a thorough understanding of what has become a continuously-developing field of inter-related forms of image production and visual culture.

Many of the staff in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.
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Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Available modules

• Project I

• Project I

  This module introduces and develops your individual practice. Through the development and presentation of individual practical work, you will realise through experience an interdisciplinary approach that develops a critical and theoretical framework to contextualise your engagement with their practice. This module focuses on individual work and the development of individual research programmes.

   

  
   
• Photography: Philosophies and Ideologies

• Photography: Philosophies and Ideologies

  Through a sustained and in-depth elaboration of a single pre-selected key photo-text from the basic literature, this module engages you in an intellectually challenging exploration of the following areas prevalent in the advanced study of photography:

  • theoretical frameworks
  • philosophical concepts
  • cogent areas of research enquiry
  
   
• Theory/Seminar

• Theory/Seminar

  This module provides a forum for debate between students and staff, researchers, visiting theorists and practitioners.

  You will have the opportunity to develop and apply critical frameworks to your practice whilst engaging in debate around a range of theoretical, cultural and social issues. You will also consider a variety of approaches to communicating, presenting and publishing your own work and research.

  Ideas are developed through seminar discussions, tutorials, and individual and group reviews, amid a programme of lectures and seminar events led by visiting artists and practitioners.

  
   
• Photo-publishing

• Photo-publishing

  This module will enable the advanced photo-image maker to engage with a diverse range of publishing options and formats located within the current mediascaipe. You will:

  • learn how to evaluate the most effective and appropriate format for publishing a work or body of work; and
  • plan and develop work which intervenes into a chosen photo-publishing space.
  
   
• Masters Project

• Masters Project

  In this module you will build on previous module outcomes and ongoing individual research to complete a major project for public exhibition.

  You will devise and manage the project alongside your peer group and with the support of a practising artist and tutor. You will research many aspects of exhibition making and production at a professional level.

  
   

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