Fine Art - Photography University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

The Fine Art - Photography programme from University of the Arts London (UAL) supports and challenges you to develop your work through practical experimentation supported by tutorials, seminars, lectures and workshops. 

There will be opportunities to exhibit your work publicly and to test new ways of working creatively with photography and its related practices. They encourage an open-minded and diverse approach to the specialism, engaging in a wide range of global discourses including climate, racial and social justice narratives.   

What to expect

• Developing your practice: Independent studio and workshop-based learning and material investigation supported by tutorial guidance, technical instruction and peer review.  

• Critical Reflection: the course will support you in the advancement of your critical analysis and reflection skills and your ability to synthesise conceptual and practical knowledge through tutorials, seminars, group crits, reading groups, workshops and lectures.  

• Technical workshops: Ranging from (but not limited to) experimental darkroom practice, alternative processes, optics, camera construction, moving image, sound, augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), projection-mapping and 3D printing. You can also access other College resources such as printmaking, digital, wood, ceramics and metal workshops.

• A sense of community: You’ll take part in a wide range of group teaching and learning activities, visits, exhibitions and peer-led projects both with students from within MA Fine Art Photography and Camberwell’s other MA Fine Art pathways.  

• Enterprise and employability: The Professional Toolkit programme of talks and workshops gives you the knowledge and creative attributes needed to prepare for the future and to sustain a rewarding professional life. 

• Showcase your work: There will be opportunities to show and discuss your work and research through exhibitions and other public-facing events.  

• Social, cultural and ethical contexts: You will explore key discourses and debates surrounding photography, the arts and culture including, for example, narratives of climate, racial and social justice.   

• Support: Your learning will be aided by a range of university support services depending on your needs. This includes Academic Support, Disability Services, Language Support, Library Services and Careers and Employability.