BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
3 years full-time at UCA Rochester

This course enables you to work in ways that reflect the up to date professional practices of both the fine art and commercial sides of the photographic industry.
Extensive digital and analogue resources, good external links, live project work and an emphasis on gaining professional experience while studying help to support this and enable you to prepare for your future career.   The staff team are working professionals with wide ranging industry experience.  Support and inspiration also comes from high profile visiting lecturers.  The Victor Hasselblad Research Centre is based here, providing you with rare access to high-resolution digital imaging technology. The course encourages you to be ambitious, open to new ideas and approaches and supports your commitment to the making of creative, critical and provocative visual work.

Areas of study are:

• Fashion & adverting narrative
• The moving and still image and set building
• Advanced digital and analogue processes
• Image management
• Writing and curating

Here is a sample of some of the components from the course which are live projects that all the students who undertake the Photography course work on.  A selection of the projects are available for you to view online (please refer to the links below).

Year 1

Setbuild - Live studio project

Year 2

Medway Photo - Exhibition project

Year 3

Out Of Range - Graduate exhibition 2009

We maintain extensive links with the industry many with former alumni who are now established professionally. Sponsors/industry partners include Hasselblad UK, Arri Lighting GB, DRS Construction, and CirroLite.