BA (Hons) Photography

After your second year, you can complete a work placement to gain professional industry experience and enhance your skills. Placements are an excellent way to increase your employability after graduation.

You can work for a company or organisation, or go independent by setting up and running your own business as a group or alone. Whatever you choose, you can get full support from Creative Careers, an in-faculty team that can help you find placement opportunities within the creative industries. With their years of recruitment experience and in-depth knowledge of the creative sector, they can help you find placement vacancies and sharpen up your job search profile (including CVs and interview processes), and can guide you throughout your placement year.

Former students have completed their placements in assorted positions, such as:

• Photographer

• Picture Editor

• Junior Stylist

• Studio Assistant

• Photographic and video archival assistant

They’ve either been self-employed or worked for several prominent companies, including:

• Camera Work London

• Miraculous Entertainment

• Dimples & Daisies Photography

• Ellen McArthur Cancer Trust

• Hermione De Paola

Core modules in this year include:

• Creative and Industry Skills

• Introduction to Photographic Practices and Research

• Introduction to Visual Culture (Photography)

• Photography Level 4 Event

• Professional Practice and Work Experience

Core modules:

• Advanced Skills and Innovation

• Photographic Critical Practices and Research

• Photography Level 5 Event

• Professional Practice and Freelance Experience

• Photographic Practice and Project Development

Optional modules:

• Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice

• Modern Foreign Language

• Professional Experience

• Research in the Public Sphere

• Student Enterprise

• Visual Culture: Cult, Taste and Collecting

• Visual Culture: Performing Identity

• Visual Culture: Technology and the Image

• Visual Culture: The Body in Practice

Core modules:

• Advanced Practice Research

• Major Projects in Photography

• Photography Level 6 Event

• Professional Practice and Graduate Employability

Optional modules:

• Advanced Digital Process

• Blogs, Grants and Catalogues: Writing Visual Culture for the Public

• Visual Culture: Dissertation

• Visual Culture: Research Project