Master in Photography and Design

Master's Degree in Photography and Design

The Master in Photography and Design will allow you to become a successful professional and develop the necessary theoretical and practical skills to be an innovative and creative image creator. Learn to visually communicate ideas and projects from an effectively multidisciplinary approach.

The Master's Degree in Photography and Design is a postgraduate Program based on the photographic practice that treats photography as an open discipline through which the student is encouraged to create extensive photographic projects of high complexity, and to explore the more contemporary approaches to photography.

The Master attracts students from around the world and places an emphasis on innovation, experimentation, and theoretical and practical practice in where students are encouraged to actively engage with contemporary photographic art practice through publications, exhibitions and participation in real photographic projects.

• Module 1: Fundamentals of Photography
• Module 2: Digital Photography
• Module 3: Photography Equipment
• Module 4: Photographic Context and Process
• Module 5: Digital Design
• Module 6: Uses of Photography
• Module 7: Photography Project

Master's Degree in Photography and Design. Awarded by UVic-UCC.

ECTS credits: 60

Objectives

• Provide a flexible but structured interdisciplinary context in which students can rigorously pursue a self-directed research project whose outcomes are embodied within the systematic production of a specific and original body of work within the field of photography.
• To provide students with the necessary visual tools to be able to build a photographic project from beginning to end.
• To give students the necessary knowledge to be able to express ideas with a photographic project in an effective way.
• To encourage the development of each student’s own critical reflection as the basis for developing as independent learners capable of advancing their own skills, knowledge and professional and research practice.
• Provide students with the means for establishing and understanding the place of their own work within the context of relevant and contemporary academic and professional situations and debates.
• Provide students with professional photography technical skills and be able to be successful in any professional circumstance.
• To encourage the development of research strategies that reflect the contemporary context in theoretical discourse and creative practice and form the basis for informed speculation about future directions.
• To engage with real audiences, generating new challenging narratives about the nature of the work itself and its relation with changed modes of production, dissemination and consumption.
• To provide professionals specialising in the area of photography with multidisciplinary training so that they can use photography as a tool for conveying concepts and ideas.

This course will provide students with an excellent opportunity to expand their photography-based art practice, extend their portfolio and develop focused contextual projects. The MA also will prepare students for a diverse range of careers within the creative and photographic industries, from commercial organisations to photojournalism and the arts. Completing the course will also enhance your employability, offering you a broad range of skills form writing funding applications, to managing projects and creating personal and promotional strategies. Many of our graduates have found opportunities to work as visual artists in an international context, with others pursuing art and photography-based roles in related fields such as, community arts, curation, advertising, teaching, freelancing, arts criticism and review, arts journalism, arts administration, video and web site production and documentary film making. With strong links to art and design employers in Spain and abroad we support the individual ambitions of every one of our students while they are studying with us and after graduation.