Program Description

The MA Photography course presents an exciting curriculum which emphasises support of your unique practice and how it relates to our professional and social responsibilities as image-makers.

• All members of the course team hold qualifications in teaching and learning in higher education and have extensive pedagogical experience alongside research profiles that position them as experts in particular areas of photographic practice – spanning family photography and the role of the studio, through photobooks and their readers, to photography as a participatory practice and the materiality of the archive.
• The MA Photography course presents an exciting curriculum which emphasises support of your unique practice and how it relates to our professional and social responsibilities as image-makers. You will have freedom to experiment whilst also sharpening a specific and dedicated practice, standing you in great stead for a variety of roles after graduation.
• The course will challenge traditional epistemologies of what the photograph, and what photography, is. Instead it will ask students to question the interstices of photography and object, photography and space, as well as medium and genre boundaries.
• We will explore the connection between the making, and the making public, of photographic work and processes. With a foundation of investigation and accompanying theoretical analysis, students will have the opportunity to develop and test their own publishing models which seek to connect work to appropriate and defined readerships.
• Students will interrogate the manner in which images perform different roles for different purposes; how they contribute to our understanding of the world, its geography, inhabitants and social structures.

On successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• Identify, define and propose a creative and original body of work which is supported by advanced research and contextual understanding.
• Critically analyse photographs as well as their modes of production and display in socio-political contexts associated with a chosen field of photographic practice.
• Engage with a robust critical-creative process and apply advanced technical and methodological skills specific to the creation of photographic work.
• Experiment with, and critically evaluate, a variety of means by which photographic work can be communicated to identified audiences.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with, and synthesize, complex themes across written, oral and visual outputs.
• Collaborate with practitioners in associated fields to respond creatively to stimuli that relates to socio-political, technological and artistic environments.
• Explore opportunities arising in the global cultural industries for their photographic practice, and integrate these into your project, business or career aims.

Admission Requirements

• Applicants to this master’s degree should normally possess a good honour's degree (2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. If the degree is in an unrelated subject, applicants need to demonstrate appropriate industry knowledge and experience in their application documentation.
• General Requirement :-
  • Indian Students-Students must achieve 60% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree or 55% in a 4 Year.Undergraduate Degree Students from the following Universities will be considered with 55% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree (unless applying for Health and Life Science courses): Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.
  • Arab Students-Students who hold a Bachelor’s Degree should have an average grade of 60% or above. Students who have an average grade of 70% or CGPA of 2.5 out of 4 for the Postgraduate Research programmes with a satisfactory research proposal.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	6.5

Remarks:

Indian Students IELTS Waiver:-65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)