Photography MA
Master
In Surrey
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Surrey
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Duration
17 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
The course ethos is to build students self -confidence over the duration of the course and enable students to take on ambitious projects and ownership of their ideas.
On the course photography is understood as a medium in its widest sense (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving image, installation, performance and engagements with the archive) with the course located within the new department of film and photography in one of the oldest art schools in the UK. Students on the MA have access to all art school workshops including 3-D sculpture, printmaking, animation, bookmaking as well as our new state-of-the art film and photo facilities. The working agenda is towards experimentation and expanded boundaries of the photographic with students practice evolving in diverse ways.
Juan S Ochoa, Self-portrait, Bogota 1993, 2015Students are taught to research and conceptualise their work so that it is both rigorous and reflectively informed. The range of critical theory introduced is not limited to discussions around the photographic but extends across post-colonial theory, globalization, environmentalism, social justice issues, queer theory and gender-based debates, privacy and surveillance, politics of the internet and technological aspects of the photographic medium.
The key emphasis of the course is on supporting and developing the direction of individual students work as a mature practice emerges from tutorials, presentations, and regular seminar discussion. The teaching team foster a strong cohort (year group) ethos with many shared and group activities creating a rich and supportive learning and working environment. The staff team consists of internationally recognised research-active academics.
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About this course
The course offers an extended period of time (17-months full-time and 29 months part-time) to develop a major body of practical work for exhibition and publication.
The course is practice-led with an interdisciplinary approach to the medium engaging with the social role of the photographic.
No limits placed on creativity as we understand the photographic as a medium in its widest sense and encourage students to experiment with a wide range of approaches and practices in unexpected and innovative ways.
Practice is underpinned by a thorough understanding of the critical and historical frameworks within which visual culture and the photographic can be understood and conceptualised.
Access to all Art School workshops including 3-D sculpture, printmaking, animation, bookmaking as well as our new state-of-the art film and photo facilities.
Highly tailored and bespoke support throughout to nurture and build student's evolving practice and ownership of their ideas.
Regular weekly contact with an experienced group of research active academic and technical staff.
Located within the new department of Film and Photography (includes the research group The Visual Institute) in one of the oldest art schools in the UK.
Part of wider culture of Kingston University, which includes the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).
Opportunity to exhibit your work and take part in off-site visits to galleries, photography festivals and other cultural spaces, as well as study tours.
The course is aimed at a range of photography practitioners.
Students are admitted through formal university application and interview (with a portfolio of work).
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Subjects
- Access
- Self-confidence
- Animation
- Critical Theory
- Art
- Team Training
- Confidence Training
- Visual culture
- Photography
- Ownership
Course programme
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.
Modules- Critical Theory in Photography and Visual Culture - 30 credits
- Photography Practices - 60 credits
- Advanced Photography Practices - 90 credits
- Unique course ethos with highly tailored and bespoke support to build student's self -confidence and evolving practice and enble students to take on ambitious projects and ownership of their ideas.
- Practice is underpinned by a thorough grounding in contemporary critical theory related to photographic and visual culture as a catalyst for interdisciplinary exchange and debate.
- Supported by a team of research-active academic and technical staff.
- Access to new state-of-the art photo facilities including analogue and digital suites, wet darkroom, professional photo studios, finishing and demonstration area and camera store. In addition, you will have access to new film and animation suites, bookmaking, printmaking and 3-D workshops.
Additional information
MA full time £15,300 MA part time £8,415
Photography MA