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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography is a vibrant Masters course with an international reputation, which brings together research and practice for photojournalists and documentary photographers who want to take their practice to the next level.
Photojournalists have explored and recorded the human experience since the inception of the medium, recording significant moments in history, documenting unfolding news and creating enduring images that can change people’s understanding of the world.
The documentary approach is a slower, more reflective form of practice, which adds deep research to synthesise the complex global conditions you wish to address.
Whether you want to situate your work in news media, an art gallery, book or a public space, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography offers you the opportunity to develop your existing skills and expand your creative practice in order to do so.
With an emphasis on contemporary political and social issues, the course will engage you with the ethics of photographic practice as well as the aesthetics.
The course aims to equip students with a thorough grounding in the discipline, through lectures, seminars, workshops, and crits.
You’ll follow a rigorous programme of photographic assignments, as well as initiating and developing your own projects examining topics and issues of special interest to you. All this takes place within the framework of the history and development of the medium, together with critical ethical and theoretical contexts.
You’ll be encouraged to develop a wider vision of the practice and potential of the medium through an exploration of the uses of documentary and reportage photography in magazines, portfolios, exhibitions, books, television, online and other multimedia areas.
Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
The track record for this course is excellent. For many years, graduates have had considerable success at the UK student documentary photography prizes. Alumni of the course are working around the world for leading photographic agencies, freelancing for the world's leading editorial publications and exhibiting internationally.
Our alumni association offers graduates support and a number of benefits.
Find out how careers and employability helps our students and graduates start their careers.
We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and have embedded UAL’s Principles for Climate, Racial and Social Justice into this course.
In Photojournalism and Documentary Practice, you will examine the theoretical, methodological and practical frameworks necessary for the research and production of successful photo and multi-media essays
The unit explores the technical, aesthetic and journalistic aspects of the photo essay, including the generation of ideas, research, image making, picture editing and caption writing. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development and production of still images and/or multimedia stories, and students will be encouraged to develop their stories with an acute awareness of the broad and rapidly changing media industry.
This unit traces and analyses the development and historical context of photojournalism and documentary photography, identifying important practitioners and movements. This knowledge will support your ability to work ethically and make a positive contribution to future history.
The Collaborative Unit offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with external organisations and practitioners. Working to real-time briefs, this unit equips you with new methods of working, which will be invaluable post-graduation.
Rethink further develops your knowledge of the methodology of documentary and photojournalistic production, culminating in the production of larger scale photo essays, series or installations. This is underpinned by an emphasis on research principles, strategies and methods.
The Research Project will consolidate your ideas for the Major Project in terms of your ethical approach, your theoretical and contextual framework and your visual strategy. There are different options for submission, including academic essay, image-text and video essay. You will have feedback before the summer break, so you are well-placed to create the work.
The Major Project unit begins at the start of your summer term. Through a series of workshops, and interactive sessions, you will be able to hone your idea for your Major Project, prior to photographing over the summer.
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