Fashion Photography

Postgraduate

Online

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Methodology

    Online

As a student of Fashion Photography at our Rochester campus, you’ll be given both the knowledge and the facilities to explore your own areas of interest and inspiration, in order to establish your unique voice and a sustainable photographic practice within the creative industries.

Working in the highly renowned Rochester Photography department, you’ll be able to formulate connections across disciplines both within the department and with our prestigious School of Fashion - which has been ranked in the top 20 by The Guardian's 2017 university league table.

About this course

We aim to create a supportive and professional environment that encourages independent learning and experimental approaches to Fashion Photography. We encourage students to approach their practice in new, interesting ways to become visually literate and conscientious contributors to our increasingly image-led world.

You’ll be encouraged by our team of experienced, research-active academics and professionals to produce fresh, highly creative and provocative work for both course and independent projects. You’ll be given access to the extensive network of connections on offer from tutors, alumni, visiting lecturers and undergraduate and postgraduate Photography students, to accommodate a strong foundation in the photographic industry upon graduation.

Two photographic studios, film processing suites, colour and black and white darkrooms, professional digital processing suites and industry-leading equipment contribute to making our Photography department as impressive as its graduates.

With outward-facing commissions, strong industry and alumni connections, and shared visiting lecturer programmes with the BA (Hons) Photography course, graduates of this course leave us with a strong, competitive knowledge of both technical and conceptual theories essential to the post-graduate working environment.

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Subjects

  • Fashion Photography
  • Image
  • University
  • Project

Course programme

Course content - 2017 entry
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

In the first year, you'll be introduced to the University and the technical workshops and facilities available to you. On the course you’ll learn the technical and conceptual skills that will give you a solid foundation from which to explore your areas of specialist activity.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry
  • View the summary specification for 2017 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Environment

    You'll examine the relation of photography to environment, with a particular emphasis on space. Internal and external, urban and rural environments are an important feature of our cultural, social and political experience. And the critical consideration of the complexities of environment represents an important aspect of contemporary practice. This unit provides you with the opportunity to explore these ideas through the genres of documentary, architecture, landscape and street photography.

  • Styling Identity

    You'll extend your knowledge of creative fashion styling, identity and image creation practice from a theoretical and practical perspective. This unit aims to use and explore various approaches to research, and empower you in the complex process of analysing a more diverse range of sources and interpreting your findings in a wider range of outcomes.

  • Image Making

    After a basic introduction to a range of different methodologies, exploring the notions of the singular image, tableau, series and/or montage, you'll decide on the mode of production of your work. Your project can be realised in the studio, with the option to undertake set-builds; or on location, as appropriate to your concept. This will be a visual project with outputs such as a book, exhibition, installation, moving image, magazine, zine or online publication.

  • Individual Project

    This concludes the first year. It encourages you to reflect upon your progress so far, consolidate your successes and begin to make work that's not defined by a set brief but driven by personal research and exploration.

The second year focus is on finding your own specialist way of working and you’ll be encouraged and supported to start working more independently. During this year you may also have the opportunity to complete an industry work placement or even study abroad.


  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry
  • View the summary specification for 2017 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Fashion Film

    Moving image plays an increasingly central role in fashion and photography. In this unit you'll examine how the use of moving image affects both the promotion and consumption of fashion, through critical thinking and creative practice. This unit challenges you both creatively and intellectually; it enables you to build concepts for fashion films, learn the technical and professional skills necessary to realise those concepts and successfully promote fashion through moving image.

  • Exposure: The Festival

    This unit runs alongside, and directly interacts with, Fashion film and 'beyond photography' unit/s. The project that you produce for either of these units will be exhibited as part of the Medway Photo Festival. The unit develops your understanding of producing, developing and presenting work for an external audience.

  • Storytelling

    This unit aims to examine the use of narrative within photographic practice and associated creative disciplines. Stories emerge from media in a number of different ways; including models of mood creation, scene setting and resolution; but also through fragmentation, association and juxtaposition.

  • Photographic Futures

    This unit serves to consolidate your learning throughout the second year of this degree course. It's designed to synthesise your understanding of your own work with audiences, expectations, publication and dissemination of photographic work.

  • Study Abroad (optional)

    This optional unit is designed to broaden your educational experience and deepen your understanding of cultural diversity. It will enable you to study within a different cultural context and gain fresh perspectives.

The third year will see you achieve a greater level of independence with self-managed research, study and practice, resulting in a final major project and a written dissertation.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry
  • View the summary specification for 2017 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules
  • Major Project

    Requires you to make a significant body of work. You'll draw upon the skills and knowledge you've acquired on the course. You're encouraged to employ an experimental and creative approach to the generation of ideas and the making of work, supported by an advanced creative methodology. Essentially, your independently led project requires sustained critical development, strong conceptual ideas, risk taking, aesthetic judgement, and sophisticated communication with a detailed understanding of context.

  • Exposure: Brief, Career Plan and Exhibition

    This prepares you to seamlessly transition from graduation onto your first major career steps. The course has led you to explore explicitly, and integrated into units, the contexts, places and institutions of photography in commercial and/or art industries, as well as in wider society.

  • Dissertation

    You'll undertake a substantial period of individually-devised research on a subject related to the contextual and/or theoretical concerns of your discipline or professional aspirations. This will be applied and presented within a structured written dissertation that conforms to academic conventions.

  • View the programme specification for 2016 entry
  • View the summary specification for 2017 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course modules

Fashion Photography

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