B.A. Photography
Berlin, Germany
BA
DURATION
7 semesters
LANGUAGES
German, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 790 / per month *
STUDY FORMAT
* tuition fees citizenship | EU/EEA (incl. Switzerland, Western Balkans, and Ukraine): EUR 790 / month | citizenship | Non-EU/EEA: EUR 5700 / Semester
Key Summary
About: Styling models, building sets, setting lighting, and scouting locations, you'll learn how pictures work and what they can achieve. The BA Photography across six schools in Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg blends analog and digital image recording, advertising, press, artistic, product and documentary practice while you develop a personal visual language.
Career Outcomes: Graduates master photographic image design and media workflows. You can work in portrait, fashion, editorial, advertising, product and reportage photography or in image media: computer-generated imagery, Stereo3D, 360 x 180°, virtual and augmented reality. A BA leads to curation, image editing, artistic practice, management and further study.
Styling models, building sets, setting up lighting, obsessing with details. Scouting locations, capturing moments. Merging analog and digital. If this is your world, then our Photography degree is perfect to help you develop your own visual language.
In the BA Photography program, you will learn how pictures work and what they can achieve. You will learn how to design and stage information using analog and digital image recording techniques. With artistic freedom, you will be able to explore all possibilities of image design and find your own style. You will work on your own projects and learn how to handle customer orders professionally. The content of your studies will include advertising photography, press photography and photojournalism, artistic photography, product, and documentary photography.
1. Semester
30 ECTS
- Basics of Photography
- Typography I
- Program Theory
- Communication Sciences / Media Theory
- Cross-Media Design I
- Presentation and Design Methodology
2. Semester
30 ECTS
- Applied Photography I (Portrait and Fashion Photography)
- Typography II
- Image Media I (CGI)
- Communication Strategy
- Cross-Media Design II
- Transdisciplinary Offer I
3. Semester
30 ECTS
- Applied Photography II (Documentary Photography)
- Editorial Design I
- Image Media II (3D Photography)
- Economics
- Cross-Media Design III
- Transdisciplinary Offer II
4. Semester
Mobility Phase / Practical phase 30 ECTS
5. Semester
30 ECTS
- Artistic Photography I
- Exhibition Design
- Image Media III (360° Panorama Photography / CGI)
- Discourses in Photography I
- Cross-Media Design IV
- Transdisciplinary Offer III
6. Semester
30 ECTS
- Artistic Photography II
- Excursion Photography
- Image Media IV (VR/ AR
- Discourses of Photography II
- Cross-Media Design V
- Transdisciplinary Offer IV
7. Semester
30 ECTS
- Applied Photography III
- Editorial Design II
- Foundation / Ethics
- Scientific Colloquium
- Bachelor's Thesis
Your studies in Photography pay off
Upon completion of your studies, you will have mastered a wide variety of forms of photographic image design and possess extensive methodical, strategic and conceptual media skills.
You will work, for example, in the applied field of portrait, fashion, editorial, advertising, product, or reportage photography.
Further professional fields arise within the new image media (computer-generated imagery, Stereo3D, 360 x 180°, virtual & augmented reality) or in the areas of curation and image editing as well as in artistic photography.
In addition, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, you have access to numerous postgraduate and master's courses in Germany and abroad.