15 monthsProgramme duration
30,890 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence and will support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer.
You will be interested in working across areas of commercial practice, such as advertising, fashion, still -life, portraiture and fine art, lifestyle and editorial. Alternatively, you may wish to develop other career pathways – for example, as a retoucher, creative producer, digital technician or picture editor.
This course will support you to develop an advanced level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography. Within this, you’ll consider the impact of global and ethical issues and accelerating technologies which demand responsive practices, adaptive visual approaches and distinctive concept development.
Independent learning is a key feature of the course, with a focus on the integration of contemporary technical and business skills underpinned by critical and research practices throughout.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
MA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence and will support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer.
You will be interested in working across areas of commercial practice, such as advertising, fashion, still -life, portraiture and fine art, lifestyle and editorial. Alternatively, you may wish to develop other career pathways – for example, as a retoucher, creative producer, digital technician or picture editor.
This course will support you to develop an advanced level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography. Within this, you’ll consider the impact of global and ethical issues and accelerating technologies which demand responsive practices, adaptive visual approaches and distinctive concept development.
Independent learning is a key feature of the course, with a focus on the integration of contemporary technical and business skills underpinned by critical and research practices throughout.
Admission Requirements
MA Commercial Photography is a practice-centred course underpinned by critical theory and research that enables the development of informed, critical and creative practitioners.
The course team welcomes applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, from all over the world. Applicants are expected to demonstrate sufficient prior knowledge of and/or potential in photography to be able to successfully complete the programme of study and/ or have an academic or professional background in a relevant subject. We also welcome students with relevant experience or those who may have previously worked in industry.
Educational level may be demonstrated by:
- An Honours degree in photography or a photographic/visual/lens-based related area;
- Possession of equivalent qualifications;
- Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required;
- Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.
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