Photography

Year 2

Compulsory modules

• Photography Project 3: Mediation & moving image

  In an ever-changing photography landscape, the technical and compositional parameters are always moving. This module will gear you up to navigate the complexities of a transient world, where you’ll build on your knowledge from Photography Projects 1 & 2, and explore the proliferating possibilities of the moving and still photographic image realm. You’ll get involved in practical workshops, group discussions, seminars and tutorials, which will provide you with supportive learning platforms. 
   

• Professional Contexts 3a: Photography and the Creative Industries

  You’ll focus on specific commercial, cultural and communication contexts in this module. You’ll elevate your artistic flare for contextual photography and connect your knowledge to other modules in the semester (Histories and Theories 3 and Photography Project 3).

• Professional Contexts 4: Professional Practice

  In this module you’ll learn how to apply the skills you’ve learnt through practical work and lectures within a professional context. You’ll develop your abilities to thrive in a professional photography practice, and attune your capabilities in relation to the commercial and creative demands of the creative industries. 

• Histories & Theories 3: Media, culture & communication

  You will consider the multi-faceted nature of media, culture and communication, while you build on your theoretical perspectives introduced in Histories and Theories 1 & 2. You’ll explore notions of representation, political and ethic dimensions of media and their responsibilities, and key media and cultural theories. 

• Photography project 4: Visual narratives & cultural contexts

  Develop a critical and vocational awareness of the visual narrative and cultural contexts behind photographs in this fascinating module. You’ll explore relationships between writing and photographic images, creating a thematically defined and contextually aware series of photographs. You will also begin planning for your Level 6 Final Major Project. 
   

• Professional Practice

  You’ll be given the opportunity to apply all the knowledge you have obtained from your lectures within a professional context. Through client-led briefs and a work placement, you’ll elevate, frame and attune your professional practice to the commercial and creative demands of the creative industries.

• Histories & Theories 4: Ethics, politics and visual narratives

  This module will further open your mind to the role that photographic imagery plays in setting the visual narrative across differing cultural contexts, and their relationships to editorial and documentary genres. Marvel at how ideas can be drawn from anthropology, ethnography and auto-ethnography, and immerse yourself in philosophical debates that shape and inform the stories that photographs tell. 

Year 3 (placement year)

Optional modules

Year 4 (or year 3 if no placement)

Compulsory modules

• Final Major Project

  As part of this quadruple module, you’ll get the opportunity to undertake an intensive and extended period of self-directed, practice-based work that completes the projects proposed in Photography Project 5. You’ll compile your best work into a substantial portfolio of original, professional standard photographic, stills and/or moving image work that showcases your creative, professional and conceptual development during the course. This is your chance to frame your public-facing professional profile and career entrance strategies, culminating in an exciting end-of-year exhibition presentation. 

• Written Research Project

  You’ll consolidate your critical, contextual and evaluative thinking throughout the course. You’ll be provided with a supportive, structured environment in which to produce an extended piece of written research. Your research can stand in a relationship to the photographic practices that you are concurrently developing in Photography Project 5. 
   

• Photography Project 6: Independent Practice

  In this module, you’ll be given the exciting challenge of undertaking a period of in-depth research, and the development of your degree show. You’ll be in close contact with your tutors as you develop further ideas and outcomes for your exhibition and future employability.