MA in Photography
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,800 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* there is no application deadline for postgraduate courses
** for international full-time | international part-time: 12,540 GBP/year | home full-time: 13,500 GBP/year | home part-time: 7,425 GBP/year
Key Summary
With its focus on contemporary issues and social theories, this course will help you develop transferable production and post-production skills.
Studying this Master's in Photography at Kingston University is the perfect opportunity to develop your practice as a lens-based media artist.
During this course, you'll communicate and develop ideas, think independently about a wide range of practices, and reflect on the technological, political, environmental and social role of photography.
You’ll graduate with the specialist skills you need to work professionally as an artist, photographer, filmmaker and more.
At the end of your studies, you’ll showcase your work with a final exhibition and public showcase – a great resource for demonstrating your abilities to prospective employers and clients.
Why choose this course?
While you study, you’ll benefit from top-quality teaching at Kingston University. Not only are we ranked Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, we also provide a richly supportive environment with input from internationally recognised artists, photographers, curators and writers.
University museums and galleries
Kingston University has two on-site galleries, which offer exciting opportunities for career progression. Grade II-listed Dorich House is the former home of the sculptor Dora Gordine, while the Stanley Picker Gallery is one of the UK’s leading university galleries. Our Knights Park campus also has a bookable project space for large-scale exhibitions.
Workshops and studios
Explore, collaborate and share ideas in our state-of-the-art workshop facilities, designed by Stirling Prize-winning studio, Haworth Tompkins. Facilities are open to all Kingston University students, and include:
- 3D workshops, with spaces for ceramics, concrete, resin-casting, plastics, metalwork, woodwork, bronze-casting foundry, set design and large-scale model making
- Animation and post-production studios
- A digital media workshop
- Knitting and sewing workshops with digital and analogue facilities, plus a working dress archive from 1750 to the present day
- A HackSpace for collaborative, creative, solutions-focused projects
- A letterpress and printmaking workshop
- A moving image workshop, with studios, an editing suite and industry-standard equipment
- A fully-equipped photography workshop
Interested in studying an MA in Photography at Kingston? The following funding support is available:
- Inspire the Future Scholarship
- International scholarships
- Progression Scholarship
- Discounts for Kingston University alumni
Course content
This research-led course engages with the photographic in its widest sense (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving image, installation, performance and engagements with the archive).
You will have access to all Kingston School of Art's workshops and be encouraged to experiment with photography in new and innovative ways as an artist.
Modules
The key emphasis of this course is on supporting and developing the direction of your practice-led research through tutorials, presentations, and regular seminar discussions where you will be taught how to research and conceptualise your work.
The range of critical theory extends across dialogical aesthetics, ethnography, post-colonial theory, globalisation, environmentalism, social justice issues, queer theory and gender-based debates, privacy and surveillance, politics of the internet and technological aspects of the photographic medium.
You'll take three modules, worth a total of 180 credits.
Core modules
- Critical Theory in Photography and Visual Culture
- Photography in Context
- Expanded Photography Practices
You’ll complete this course with the creative and technical skills needed to become a professional artist, photographer, filmmaker or curator. Some graduates have even gone on to work in higher education, editorial and fashion.