Photography University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

• Expanded Practice: Develop a contemporary photographic art practice through projects underpinned by research, visual experimentation, and critical reflection in expansive areas such as still and moving image, CGI, 3D scanning and modelling, automated and algorithmic images.

• Curation: Develop a contemporary curatorial practice through projects underpinned by research, experimentation, and critical reflection.

• Publishing: Develop a contemporary publishing practice through projects underpinned by research, visual experimentation, and critical reflection. Engaging in all stages of the publishing workflow - from the creation of a digital or physical publication through to audience dissemination  - you’ll have the option to create a publication of your own photographic work, or to collaborate with and publish work from students on the other pathways or courses, work drawn from UAL collections, or work by external collaborators.

Careers

Photography programme from the University of the Arts London (UAL) prepares graduates to research, develop and produce an individual fine art project to a high exhibition standard. They will also have developed the practical, critical and conceptual skills needed to work at a high level in related areas of photography and media practice. The course also provides graduates with a critical and professional understanding of the contemporary photography and fine art sectors which will prepare them for a number of career directions within the arts and media.

Graduates of the course go on to be successful exhibiting fine artists as well as documentary and commercial photographers, gallerists, curators and writers. Many prefer to find ways of supporting their art practice through combining it with teaching, commercial photography or other related activities.

Graduate destinations include; organisational roles in independent and publicly funded photography bodies, curators, archivists and gallerists, art buyers, journal editors, academics at secondary, FE and university level, and PhD studies to develop their practice as research.