Program Overview

Photography MA

Overview

Forge a specialism and career as you explore artistic, documentary, commercial, and socially engaged photography at an advanced level of technical and conceptual creativity.

Course Details

Core Modules

• Approaches and Images
  • Consider aesthetic, technical, and conceptual approaches to image-making, and employ these in the planning, development, and resolution of a photographic project.
• Audience and Encounters
  • Explore the ways in which photographs can be deployed and disseminated, and how they might be engaged with by viewers.
• Master's Project: Photography
  • Undertake a major, in-depth, individual study into a specialisation relating to your discipline.
• The Connected Practitioner
  • Elevate your creative research skills, a cornerstone of all creative disciplines, fuelling both academic and creative work.
• The Resourceful Photographer
  • Develop the necessary skills to operate at a professional level, whatever your chosen career path and aspirations.

Advanced Practice (2-year full-time MA only)

• Advanced Practice
  • Undertake an opportunity that builds on your existing knowledge, skills, and experience and supports your future career interests and aspirations.

How You Learn

• MA Photography fosters independence and specialisation.
• You are supported to identify your goals and the best way to achieve them, empowering you to initiate, design and implement your own projects.
• Regular group critiques support you to evaluate and articulate your practice, reflecting on your development through an ongoing workbook.

How You Are Assessed

• This course is assessed by in-course assessments.
• For each module, you respond to the brief and submit work such as a portfolio, workbook, artefact, report or presentation that demonstrates the learning outcomes.

Entry Requirements

• You should have a 2.2 in a photography undergraduate degree.
• We also consider other relevant experience or qualifications.
• International students will require IELTS 6.0 or equivalent.

Employability

• Career opportunities:
  • Editorial photographer
  • Press or documentary photographer
  • Fashion photographer
  • Product photographer
  • Community photographer
  • Commercial or corporate photographer
  • Fine artist
  • Picture researcher or editor
  • Visual assets manager
  • Art director
  • Photography instructor or lecturer
  • Curator for museums and galleries
  • Further research at doctoral level, leading to a PhD.

Information for International Applicants

• Qualifications:
  • International applicants - find out what qualifications you need by selecting your country.
• Useful information:
  • Visit our international pages for useful information for non-UK students and applicants.

Fees

Full-time

• Fee for UK applicants: £8,365 a year
• Fee for international applicants: £17,000 a year
• Length: September: 1 year (20 months with Advanced Practice). January: 16 months (2 years with Advanced Practice).
• Start date: January or September

Part-time

• Fee for UK applicants: £930 for each 20 credits
• Length: September: 2 years. January: 28 months.
• Start date: January or September

Choose Teesside

• Stand out from other job applicants with your higher level qualification, specialist knowledge and expanded networks.
• Improve your project management, critical thinking, research skills, time management, presentation skills and teamwork.
• The median salary for working-age postgraduates (£45,000) was £6,500 more than for working-age (those aged 16 to 64) graduates (£38,500) in 2022.
• Study in our friendly town-centre campus with £280m of recent investment.
• Study at Europe's first Adobe Creative Campus and develop your creative and digital skills.