Program Overview

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Photography MA (Online)

Course Overview

Push your practice in bold and experimental directions on Falmouth’s online Photography master’s course. Supported by award-winning lecturers and working with diverse peers from across the globe, you will enhance your critical thinking and learn how to make photographic work that explores and communicates challenging themes and ideas.

Why Study This Course at Falmouth?

• Join Falmouth’s renowned Institute of Photography from your own location on an established course designed specifically for online study
• Collaborate on industry-standard briefs with a global community of creative practitioners
• Develop skills required to excel professionally, along with the research abilities and theoretical approaches to underpin your work
• Expand your learning and your professional network at our optional in-person events

Course Details

Modules

• Positions and Practice
• Informing Contexts
• Sustainable Strategies
• Collaboration and Professional Locations
• Final Major Project (MA only)

Module Details

Positions and Practice

This module enables you to locate your practice within the broad contexts of professional contemporary photography.

• You will consider the importance of research in both academic and industry contexts, and critically reflect on core themes in contemporary visual culture.
• Through discursive activities with staff and peers, as well as self-directed research and personal reflection, you will analyse your practice in relation to specific themes and articulate your practical and conceptual intentions as an image-maker.

Informing Contexts

You will be introduced to the themes and debates that are fundamental to the study and consumption of imagery and will increase your understanding of how contemporary practice is enriched through critical and theoretical contextualisation.

• You will consider your own practice in relation to historical, philosophical, and ethical perspectives around visual culture, helping you develop an informed and sophisticated photographic practice.

Sustainable Strategies

This module considers the myriad ways in which photography can be presented, and how its form influences how it is received and understood by audiences.

• You will explore the many creative strategies involved in the production, resolution, and publication of photographic work, and consider the possibility of interdisciplinary approaches in the making and presentation of your own creative output.
• Alongside this you’ll consider how your practice and research connects with the broader social, political and ecological landscape, and begin to engage new audiences with your work.

Collaboration and Professional Locations

This module strives to increase your understanding and appreciation of the roles, relationships, and responsibilities that can play a major part in progressing and sustaining your creative practice.

• As part of this, you will be encouraged to undertake commissions and work placements during this module, and to devise or engage in photography and visual arts initiatives relevant to your work.
• You’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate on a live brief with a small group of peers.

Final Major Project (MA only)

This module provides you with the chance to produce a critically and professionally informed research project and deliver it to a public audience.

• You will submit a proposal outlining a scheme of work and the critical contexts surrounding your project.
• You’ll then work continuously on the module over the course of two study blocks, working closely with your peers and supported by your supervisor.

Learning and Support

• How online study works
• How will I study online?
• How will I be assessed?
• Resources and support

Meet the Team

Professional standards and practice are at the core of this online master’s course, which is delivered by a research-active academic team from the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University.

Careers

There is no ‘typical’ route for career development as a photographer, but our graduates use the skills, network, and the portfolio they develop during the programme to advance their careers in various ways: winning awards, commissions, bursaries and residencies; gaining new commercial clients; and securing permanent roles as photographers within industry.

How to Apply

• Speak to us about the course
• Apply now
• Entry requirements
• Language requirements
• Deadlines
• Early Bird discount

Fees, Costs & Funding

• Tuition fees
• Typical course costs
• Postgraduate funding

Contact Us

Do you have questions about the course or studying online with Falmouth? Fill in our simple online form and we’ll get in touch to support your application journey.