MA in Photography
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
DURATION
17 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 10,900 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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** home full-time: ยฃ10,900 | international full-time: ยฃ18,700
Key Summary
Introduction
Why choose this course?
The course is highly bespoke, to support you as an artist working with photography as an expanded and interdisciplinary practice (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving image, installation, performance for camera and engagements with the archive).
With an emphasis on contemporary urgencies and socially-engaged practices, this course offers transferable skills in the production and post-production of images through the communication and development of ideas.
Modules are designed to encourage independent thinking over a wide range of practices and theories reflecting on the technological, political, environmental and social role of the practice.
Reasons to choose Kingston
- Be part of a rich and supportive environment with input from internationally recognised artists, photographers, curators and writers. You will have the opportunity to develop your practice as an artist working with lens-based media.
- You will have access to all facilities across photography (analogue and digital suites, a wet darkroom and photo studios) film, animation, printmaking and 3D workshops to develop your practice as an artist.
- Studies culminate in a final exhibition and publication to showcase your work.
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Curriculum
What you will study
This research-led course engages with the photographic in its widest sense (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving images, installation, performance and engagements with the archive).
You will have access to all of 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 Practices
- Advanced Photography Practices
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.