Course summary

Develop your unique identity as a visual storyteller, learning skills from across this rapidly-changing and dynamic industry from news photography and current events to conceptual documentary, editorial and multimedia. This course is taught at London College of Communication, at Elephant and Castle, part of University of the Arts London (UAL). What can you expect?

• Follow an innovative and exciting curriculum rooted in the methodologies of photojournalism and documentary photography as they are practised professionally today.

• As well as gaining an academically rigorous degree, you will acquire the essential skills to become a working photographer, equipping you to produce work for a range of outlets including newspapers, magazines, digital platforms, galleries, festivals, books, and picture agencies. Often our students are working to a professional standard by their third year.

• The practical elements of the course emphasise learning by doing: you will begin by learning to photograph newsworthy subjects and create topical documentary stories and then go on to develop your own self-directed photojournalism or documentary practice, culminating in a final Major Project and a substantial research project.

• You’ll be encouraged to become involved with the lively photographic community at LCC and in London; a process which is enhanced by an exciting range of visiting speakers from the photographic and related industries. The course team is committed to diversity in representation of gender, ethnicity, and disability in its programme of visiting speakers and tutors.

• Complementing the practical and career-focused aspects of this degree course are contextual studies in the history of photojournalism and documentary photography, delivered by academics who are internationally published scholars in the field.