Photography - MA/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate

University of the West of England, Bristol

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In Bristol

£ 6,000 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Taught by award-winning professional photographers and leading academics in the field, our distinctive, practice-based MA in Photography will allow you to explore the diverse applications of the medium and to deepen your understanding of photography as a discipline.
Through a course of intense study, creative practice, and professional partnerships, you will develop the passion that brought you to photography in the first place and be supported to produce innovative work, whilst also building skills to maximise and contextualise your creative outputs.
Collaborative opportunities
The course includes intense practice-led study weeks and the chance to work with creative industry partners, with professional practitioners running lectures, workshops and mentoring activities.
By taking advantage of a specially designed collective agency featuring a publishing imprint, editing bureaux and exhibiting forum, you will gain hands-on experience of collaborative practice. These skills will allow you to channel both project based personal work and your response to live briefs, initiated by a range of sources such as business clients, curators, picture editors and design agencies, to successful outcomes. You will also benefit from the practice-led research within the department, with links to the Photography Research Group, the Centre for Fine Print Research, Digital Cultures Research Centre, and Centre for Moving Image Research.
Contextualise your practise
This course will enable you to contextualise your practice within relevant professional environments, such as research, education, exhibition, curation, project management, marketing, art direction, publishing and design.
It is relevant for graduates wishing to progress from BA study in an arts or humanities subject, who want to focus their practice in the medium of photography as well as for professionals already working in the field, looking to develop and underpin their practice in an academic, theoretical...

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Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

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About this course

Professional accreditation
The course is affiliated to and accredited by the Association of Photographers who are the leading professional organisation representing photographers both nationally and internationally.
Study facilities
While studying with us, you will have access to state-of-the-art photography studios and equipment, including colour, and black and white darkrooms and professional standard digital and analogue workflow facilities.We also have an extensive range of camera kit including medium format digital cameras, full frame DSLRs, a large stock of medium and large...

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Course programme

Content

The content of the course reflects the ethos of the photography department, which seeks to produce photographic art as well as develop the necessary knowledge and skills in this field.

You will study the following compulsory modules:

  • Enquiry and Context - this module covers the theoretical, critical and contextual underpinning of creative practice.
  • Developing Practices - you will learn how to develop lines of enquiry through practical exploration and research.
  • Consolidating Practices - you will produce a body of photographic work to a self-directed theme building on the outcomes of the first semester.
  • Dissemination in Professional Contexts - you will explore how to develop and resolve your practical outputs from the previous module into a bespoke professional context.

Please note this structure is for the full-time course delivery only. For part-time delivery, the same modules will be studied. However, the structure will differ.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

Through a series of lectures, seminars, tutorials and presentations, you will explore relevant concepts underpinning the theoretical and contextual basis of the photography work you will undertake on the course. Through location orientated workshops and studio based sessions, you will develop lines of enquiry through practical exploration and research, and test out your ideas and techniques in a highly supportive academic and technically excellent environment. You will undertake active research, to critically engage with your chosen practice and produce a body of photographic work on a self-directed theme. You will also learn how disseminate this work via outward facing networks and events, with the help of focused tutorials and workshops.

For more details, see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Study time

The course includes 10 hours of contact time a week, which incorporates all the academic teaching and learning, technical workshops and engagement with industry partners. In addition to this, you are encouraged to spend around 30 hours of individual study time a week, to include the time you spend on your practical photography work.

Assessment

We will make use of different types of assessment, including project reviews, essays, reflective diaries, presentations and reports, as well as assessing your portfolio of work. Your portfolio can take a diverse range of forms, including a photo-book, film, installation or commercial photography portfolio.

For more detail, see our full glossary of assessment terms.

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