MA Photography

COURSE OUTLINE

The course structure allows for a flexibility of approach, as a Photography Master’s student you will be a creative practitioner in the broadest sense of the term and be involved with emerging technologies as well as heritage media. Either way, you will hone your skills and develop your own visual identity as a professional practitioner.

You will be encouraged to develop a systematic and comprehensive understanding of techniques and knowledge relevant to that specialism of photography you choose and to combine this with a critical awareness of developments in that area of professional practice.

Professional Photography draws upon many subjects including Graphic Design, Illustration, Film, Animation, Fine Art and Fashion all of which are AUB Masters programmes. Thus, the AUB Masters community offers you an outstanding opportunity for collaboration within a post-graduate context and encourages links that may well develop further after graduation.

The course encourages you to make industrial links and work on live projects as part of your Master's study. This may include you working very closely with external organisations to achieve a highly creative post-graduate level outcome and these links may lead to career development opportunities.

The course comprises of three equally sized units:

• Defining Practice: Methodologies, Contexts & Experimentation
• Master’s Project 1: Investigation & Exploration
• Master’s Project 2: Resolution, Presentation & Evaluation

Although the course comprises of three units, these should be seen as one integrated body of study. Depending upon your own individual approach you will be given the opportunity to run one major project across Master’s Project 1 and Master’s Project 2, or produce a different project for each unit.

The course is project focused and builds towards the completion of a major portfolio of work through self-initiated practical assignments, which are supported by written commentaries.

Full-time and part-time pathways
The full-time course runs for one year (45 weeks of study), from September to September. Attendance is on average one day a week (Tuesdays).

The part-time course runs for two years (90 weeks of study), from September to September. Attendance is one day a week for the first 15 weeks (Tuesdays) and then one day every other week for the rest of the course.