This MA course approaches photography as an expanded visual discipline. You are encouraged to produce professional work as well as engage with experimental and speculative approaches to making. Our facilities and course ethos help you develop flexible modes of practice that respond to the diverse and varied field of contemporary photography. The course addresses the creative process of developing and realising a major body of work paying attention to research, exhibition and publication.

Angus Fraser, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

Agnieska Kozlowska, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

Agnieska Kozlowska, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

Nikitas Almpanis, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

Shen Wei, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

Kim Bromley, MA Photography, UCA Rochester

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Key study topics include:

• Defining your research project through practical visual exploration, encountering a number of theoretical paradigms and learning different research methods.
• Experimenting with different approaches and developing your major project to a professional level supported by discussion, seminars and tutorials. This MA course covers practical and theoretical territory including: contemporary photography, photography as technology defined by social practice, the status of the photographic image in new media, the time of the photograph, the archive, documentary and story-telling, the portrait as a social scene, landscape as place and space, critiques of realism, the language of objectivity, photography as bearing witness, legacies of postmodernism; chance, appropriation, performance, tableau.
• Defining the specialist nature of your project whilst also becoming critically aware of the contexts and histories you work within.
• Realising your project, with support from a range of professionals who help you identify modes of dissemination and relevant audiences and arenas for publication.

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