MA Photography

The MA Photography programme at the RCA comprises a unique, cross-disciplinary community of artists and writers working at the cutting edge of contemporary photographic practice and image-making. We understand photography to be an expansive and evolving practice, which includes the still and moving image, publishing, performance, installation, social practice, sound, synthetic media, text, and writing. Central to our approach is the practising, theorising, and receiving of photography as a field unrestricted by the conventions of material, medium, format, discipline, and genre. Important to our programme ethos is a commitment to process; to the unknown, indeterminate, speculative, and hybrid.

We are committed to probing what the photographic image is, and could be, across contemporary art practices. From diverse perspectives we consider digital and analogue forms of photography in relation to socio-political debates, intercultural discourses, exchanges between theory and practice, and emerging modes of circulation and distribution. Driven by research-led teaching and state-of-the-art technical facilities, you will contribute to vital discussions about the future of the image today at an urgent time of ecological crisis and technological change impacted by questions of visibility and representation.