PHOTOGRAPHY BA Honours
Course summary
Our Photography BA course is a long-established course with an excellent international reputation for its academic and practical teaching. This reputation is reflected in high application rates, a distinguished record of graduate employment in the industries it serves, and in the publication, production and teaching profile of its staff and graduates.
Our course will enable you to develop your creative production skills across a range of photographic and lens-based media, to establish a critically engaged and self-reflective creative practice. It will equip you with the skills to adapt to creative opportunities, participate in contemporary cultural debates, and increase your awareness of the political, ethical and aesthetic implications of your work. You’ll learn to form independent, informed opinions of your own work and that of others.
Our course is renowned for its distinctive philosophy, which aims to provide a holistic photographic education. It combines high levels of technical and visual photographic skills with excellent visual literacy and a critical awareness of visual culture alongside solid professional practice.
You’ll also explore a wide range of relevant contemporary theories and debates designed both to stimulate a critically engaged practice and to better prepare you for a range of related careers.
The course is part of the University's College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, based at our state-of-the-art Harrow Campus – a cutting-edge creative hub.
CAREERS
Many of our graduates go on to work as photographers and photographic artists, but equally they pursue a range of careers within the broader photographic and creative sectors, as designers, historians, magazine editors, museum and gallery curators, picture editors and researchers, teachers, and writers. Many also go on to postgraduate study.
With a growing global network of 3,000 employers, our Careers and Employability Service is here to support you to achieve your full potential.
Industry partners
We have strong links within the photographic and creative sector in London and beyond, and the majority of our teaching staff are active practitioners across the different sectors.
We also have close relationships with our alumni and use these links to organise guest talks, work placements and job opportunities for our students.
Our industry partners range from The World Photography Organisation, The Photographers' Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum to well-established practitioners like Nadav Kander, Sarah Pickering, Broomberg & Chanarin and many more.
Previous guest speakers have included:
- Amak Mahmoodian
- Annette Kuhn
- Broomberg & Chanarin
- Clare Grafik
- Darren Harvey-Regan
- Jananne Al-Ani
- Lisa Barnard
- Max Pinckers
- Poulomi Basu
- Rut Blees Luxemburg
- Simon Norfolk Sian Bonnell
- Trish Morrissey
- Zelda Cheatle
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
- Magazine editor
- Museum and gallery curator
- Photographer
- Photographic artist
- Picture editor
- Picture researcher
- Teacher and lecturer
Graduate employment
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
- Autograph, London
- Lux Darkroom
- Oxfam
- Pinewood Studios
- Tate Modern
Graduates have found work placements and assisting opportunities at organisations including:
- Sunday Times Magazine | NME | BBC | Dazed & Confused
- Victoria and Albert Museum | The Photographers' Gallery
- Sony | Pureland Design | Next Level
- Sian Bonnell | Broomberg & Chanarin | Tom Hunter
- Nadav Kander | Perou | Sarah Pickering | Jurgen Teller | Massimo Vitali
- Millennium Images | The World Photography Organisation
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