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MA Fashion Photography

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    MA 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Course Description

Behind every successful fashion shoot is a talented photographer. With the skills you gain on our MA Fashion Photography degree course at UCA Rochester, you can make that role your own.

On our course, you’ll build on your existing fashion and photography knowledge to identify, develop and manage a Masters project.

We will provide you with the tools to help you reach your goals – from state-of-the-art photography facilities and off-campus shoots and exhibition visits to specialised lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops.

Your studies will be supported by internationally renowned staff in a department that encourages experimentation. You’ll establish yourself as a well-rounded professional who can formulate ideas in a sophisticated framework, while also communicating to others both visually and verbally.

We place a strong emphasis on publication, enabling you to find creative ways to disseminate your work beyond the academic context, in the public arena. With the skills and confidence you gain, you’ll be equipped to succeed in a career of your choice – whether that’s in editorial fashion, curation, editing, fine art or freelance work.

Entry Requirements

  • An honours degree or equivalent qualification in the subject or a related discipline

and/or

  • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level.

Consideration will also be given to applicants who can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project and can demonstrate their potential to satisfactorily complete the course.

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Student Destinations

Our postgraduate degree prepares you for your career through professional practice units, talks by visiting artists and portfolio reviews with figures from across the photographic industry. Career opportunities include:

  • Freelance photography
  • Fine art
  • Fashion
  • Advertising and editorial
  • Post production/digital imaging
  • Picture editing and research
  • Curating
  • Image, arts and community arts management
  • Gallery administration.

Graduates of MA Photography have gone on to win the Jerwood Photography prize; to exhibit their work in The Photographers’ Gallery, Photofusion, ArtSway and the Geffyre Museum as well as publishing their outputs in different venues ranging from The Sunday Times Magazine to monographs with Dewi Lewis Publishing.

Module Details

Term 1
  • Contemporary Debates and Creative Enquiry
  • Innovating Practice

Term 2

  • Project Development and Industry Placements
  • Project Development

Term 3

  • Creative Resolution and Implementation

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