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MA Photography

University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This MA Photography course will build upon your existing skills and passion for photography and visual arts, supporting you as you develop and refine your unique photographic practice and gain confidence in relevant research methodologies.

By extending your photographic work to postgraduate level, you’ll be encouraged to pursue an understanding of the contexts that situate your practice, engage with the debates informing and underpinning contemporary photographic practices, and hone your authorial voice.

This Master’s in photography degree course will provide you with the core knowledge and skills to work effectively across photography-related industries as an artist, educator or researcher, or in broader creative and artistic roles like writing, curating and picture editing. It will also equip you to pursue further study and research at PhD level.

With many opportunities to network, publicise and market your work publicly, you'll be better prepared to take your creative career to the next level once you graduate.

General Eligibility

A good honours degree or equivalent in any discipline. Business Studies, Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts, Geography, Economics or Law are examples, but any applicant with demonstrable commitment to, enthusiasm for or experience in the field with a good standard of literacy will also be considered.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Course Modules
  • A Question of Research

  • Exploratory Practice and Proposal

  • Contemporary Photographic Practice in Context

  • Photography Major Project

Language Requirement

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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