Course summary
Photography is a key medium of the 21st century. We record every aspect of our lives with smartphone cameras, consume knowledge through image flows, are exposed to constant surveillance via security cameras while feeding computer databases with our social media images. The MA in Photography Practice is a practice-based master's program focused on developing your critical and creative photographic practice. It approaches photography as an expanded art form, holding space for its many intersections with other mediums and practices, including but not limited to moving image, CGI (computer-generated images), installation, sculpture, performance, and technology. Photography as an art form is undergoing a radical transformation in its contemporary encounter with new technologies such as CGI and Generative AI (artificial intelligence). This moment also sees a resurgence in artists using traditional analogue technologies and approaches a counterpoint to the increasing quantity and decreasing legibility of the images flooding our everyday lives . With specialist training and facilities in both cutting-edge digital and traditional analogue processes, the MA in Photography Practice encourages students to fully embrace the complexities and opportunities that image-making poses at this exciting point in time. The strong synthesis of theory and practice in the program helps you to develop your own critical perspectives on the meaning, production, and distribution of images in their present and historical contexts. You will also advance your knowledge and skills in both digital and analogue technologies, as well as still and durational image-making, installation, and exhibition design. You will have the opportunity to take part in a variety of workshops such as:
- Medium/large format film cameras
- Analogue photographic printing in the darkroom
- Portable and studio lighting technologies
- Film technology and alternative darkroom techniques
- Videography and video editing
- Digital imaging
- Digital post-production and editing
- 3D modelling
- Book/zine design and making
- AI image generation
Modules
Compulsory Modules You will study the following compulsory modules: Image Construction, Manipulation, and Management Ascent of the Image Portfolio/Project/Viva Voce Photography and After *Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Assessment method
Original portfolio submission; coursework and essays.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject as well a level of practical experience in a relevant area. You will also be required to provide a photographic portfolio (10 - 20 pictures or relevant media) and a five minute video or screen recording where you talk about and present your portfolio. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in speaking and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW