Course Overview

Delivered at our Salisbury campus, this course aims to produce graduates who engage with the world with intrigue, expressive freedom, intellectual curiosity and ethical awareness. These attributes should allow you the creative independence to work as an imaginative, collaborative, reflective and confident photographic practitioner: contributing to and helping shape the creative industry. Through guided learning and self-directed investigation, the course allows you to study and challenge a range of photographic genres: including documentary, editorial, advertising, fashion, product and portrait photography. Underpinning the course is a business driven approach to applied academic research and professional investigation.

Teaching and Learning:

You will develop your commercial potential by contextualising genre practices and recognising current issues and topical debates such as the role played by commercial photography in representing gender, race, diversity and sustainability across the global marketplace.

The course will explore the role of both photographic and post-production practices in shaping emerging aesthetics and contextual decision-making, discuss topical business practices (within the creative industry) and examine the social/cultural associations underpinned within each professional genre.

You are required to complete a work placement (the minimum requirement is a 2 week ‘short’ placement and students are encouraged to complete the placement between years 2 and 3). Successful completion of a short placement is a graduation requirement.

As an alternative to the short placement, and with sufficient notice, you may undertake a 30-week ‘sandwich’ placement. The sandwich placement must take place between years 2 and 3 and be in the broad area of photography.