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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence and will support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer.
You will be interested in working across areas of commercial practice, such as advertising, fashion, still-life, portraiture and fine art, lifestyle and editorial. Alternatively, you may wish to develop other career pathways – for example, as a retoucher, creative producer, digital technician or picture editor.
This course will support you to develop an advanced level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography. Within this, you’ll consider the impact of global and ethical issues and accelerating technologies which demand responsive practices, adaptive visual approaches and distinctive concept development.
Independent learning is a key feature of the course, with a focus on the integration of contemporary technical and business skills underpinned by critical and research practices throughout.
Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
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UAL is committed to ensuring that its students’ knowledge and skills are set within a contemporary personal and professional ethical framework in order they may make positive impact in practice particularly in relation to the UAL Principles of Climate, Racial and Social Justice. The UAL Principles help to inform the course’s approach to ethical awareness and application in the curriculum leading to advocacy, mitigation and urgency in developed practice. Ethical behaviours and values are embedded in course aims and are assessed throughout.
Each course is divided into units, which are credit-rated. The minimum unit size is 20 credits. The MA course structure involves five units, totalling 180 credits.
This unit will hone your image-making skills and develop your style as a commercial photographer, providing you with robust theoretical and practical frameworks for the research and production of a short series of images in response to a set brief.
There’s an industry-focus within this unit, including industry visits and guest speakers, and it’s designed to equip you to work to commission in a variety of contexts. A series of non-assessed assignments throughout will enable you to receive formative feedback, culminating in an assessed assignment.
This unit positions contemporary commercial practices within various historical contexts through analysis of significant photographers, movements, and agencies.
Grounded in photographic research methodologies and theories, you’ll consider concurrent practices, with particular attention paid to the work of present and previous generations of global practitioners which relate, shape, and intersect with ethical, social, political, and economic contexts.
This unit is designed to enable you to identify, form and develop collaborative working relationships with a range of potential partners. These could include other postgraduate students at LCC or UAL; postgraduate students at other higher education institutions; or external organisations such as cultural or community groups, NGOs, businesses or charities.
The nature of this collaboration will involve working on a project with outcomes agreed by your tutors, and will take the form of group work that can happen within the College or digitally/remotely.
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