Taught course

Photography

Institution
UWE Bristol · Department of Arts and Cultural Industries
Qualifications
MA

Entry requirements

For more information, see our listing for this course on the UWE Bristol website, by clicking on the 'visit website' button further down the page.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Introduction

Art and industry combine on this innovative, practice-based postgraduate course, designed to develop your creative promise, deepen your experience of photography and moving image, and optimise both your artistic and professional potential.

Accreditations and partnerships:

  • Association of Photographers
  • IC Visual Lab
  • Bristol Photo Festival.

Taught by a diverse team of international award-winning artists, critically-acclaimed photographers and leading academics in the field, our distinctive, practice-based MA in Photography will allow you to explore the diverse applications of the medium, and to deepen your understanding of photography as a discipline.

The core staff team includes: Aaron Schuman, Professor Shawn Sobers and Dr Amak Mahmoodian.

Students on this course will benefit from our combined focus on personal work, professional practice and critical research. Through a course of intensive study, creative practice, and professional engagement, you will develop the passion that brought you to photography in the first place, and will be supported in the development and production of innovative work, whilst also building skills to maximise and contextualise your creative outputs.

Collaborative opportunities

Our partnerships with Bristol Photography Festival and IC Visual Lab, two highly reputable Bristol-based photography organisations with national and international influence, will provide you with a wide range of work experience placements and live briefs to work on. You'll also have access to industry talks and events, opportunities to display your work at prestigious exhibitions and venues and high-level industry mentorships.

The course includes guest-lectures, intensive week-long workshops, practice-based interactive activities, and individual portfolio reviews with professional practitioners and industry leaders, including curators, editors, publishers, producers, art buyers, agents, gallerists and designers.

You'll have opportunities to meet with, share work with, and initiate long-lasting professional relationships with influential professionals within the creative industries.

Contextualise your practice

This course will enable you to contextualise your practice within relevant professional environments, such as research, education, exhibition, curation, project management, marketing, art direction, publishing, advertising, digital-media and design.

It is relevant for arts or humanities graduates wishing to progress from BA study, who want to focus their practice in the medium of photography, as well as for professionals already working in the field who are looking to develop and underpin their practice in an academic, theoretical, critical and creative contexts.

For more information, including the most up to date module listing, see the entry for this course on the UWE Bristol website, by clicking on the ‘Visit website’ button located further down this page.

Information for international students

For more information, see our listing for this course on the UWE Bristol website, by clicking on the 'visit website' button further down the page.

Fees and funding

For more information, see our listing for this course on the UWE Bristol website, by clicking on the 'visit website' button further down the page.

Qualification, course duration and attendance options

  • MA
    full time
    15 months
    • Campus-based learningis available for this qualification

Art and industry combine on this innovative, practice-based postgraduate course, designed to develop your creative promise, deepen your experience of photography and moving image, and optimise both your artistic and professional potential.

Course contact details

Name
UWE Admissions
Email
admissions@uwe.ac.uk
Phone
+44(0)117 32 83333