MA Fashion Photography
Entry requirements
You will have:
- A relevant degree and prior experience engaging on a critical and/or practical level with fashion photography, media or fine art photography.
- The proven ability and willingness to collaborate, generate ideas, engage with current cultural discourse and showcase an understanding of your practice and the motivation to explore it further at post-graduate level.
We will also consider applicants who are practicing photographers, artists and designers from different professions with an interest in fashion and photography. We are also interested in applicants from an artistic or scientific background, who have a desire to progress into a career in the creative industries.
APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
- Related academic or work experience (minimum of three years)
- The quality of the personal statement
- A strong academic or other professional reference
- OR a combination of these factors
Each application will be considered on its own merit, but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
Months of entry
September
Course content
The MA Fashion Photography course is designed for graduates or professionals to situate and develop their photographic practice within new or established creative and commercial protocols, and employment opportunities. Students are encouraged to develop an analysis, philosophy and vision of fashion + photography that is informed by culture, politics, and aesthetics that is outward facing towards industrial, environmental, cultural and societal contribution and benefit.
Students engage with photography as the perfect medium, with explicit and implicit capacity for contextual and conceptual interplays, where photography encompasses the full range of technologies and thinking across analogue, digital and moving image platforms. The course offers a curriculum and learning environment that stimulates intellectual, practical, technical and collaborative discourses and opportunities. A combination of research and practice leads to a self-negotiated masters project work, which is key to a sustainable livelihood or further academic study.
The course outcomes shift between editorial and visual art, process and product, and whether made in the ‘real’ world or a performed/ constructed one, the work can disseminate through the page, the wall or the screen - confirming, critiquing or challenging contemporary industry, practice and dialogues in fashion photography.
About London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion, UAL is a world leader in fashion education. We take pride in a global reputation for our courses, research and graduates that are shaping the future of the industry, driven by values around sustainability, ethical responsibility and social justice. For over a century we have been shaping the leaders of tomorrow and nurturing creative talent.
Our boundary-pushing research unites design, science, engineering and technology and our network of experts work collaboratively with industry, the public and partners to share knowledge and expertise, making a meaningful impact on the fashion industry.
Our home in east London on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park allows us to present a Cultural Programme of exhibitions, events and digital encounters, enriching the local area and helping us to engage with our community in new ways.
Information for international students
IELTS level 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Please check our main English Language Requirements.
Fees and funding
You can also find out more about the Postgraduate Masters Loan (Home students only) and other types of funding.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MA
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- London College of Fashion
- fashion.contact@arts.ac.uk