Photography MA

Why study MA Photography at University College Falmouth?

MA Photography - additional information (1.32 MB)

This postgraduate photography degree is for those who are fascinated and puzzled by photographs. The photography course invites you to develop your own distinctive way of using the medium’s diverse capacities to amuse, satisfy, astonish and inform.

Photography is both a part of everyday life and a medium of discovery. Here, you’ll explore what contemporary photography is and does, and how you, as a creative practitioner, can engage with it.

Tell me more about the MA Photography course

On application you’ll be asked to propose a project that will form the basis of your study, from which you’ll develop your photographic practice under the guidance of our accomplished staff. You’ll have access to specialist technologies to enable you to explore, experiment and discover, finding your own interpretation of what photography is.

We want to make you think about how photographs shape us, our memories, our sense of self and history. Through a fusion of practice and theory, you’ll reinforce your personal and practical development with critical understanding and maximise your potential for a career in photography.

Facilities

The Peter Lanyon Building provides specialist facilities for University College Falmouth and the University of Exeter. It includes University College Falmouth’s new £7m state-of-the-art Photography Centre and Digital Animation Studio, together with enhanced media facilities, where new BA(Hons) degrees in Marine & Natural History Photography, Press Photography and Digital Animation are now offered for the first time.

More information about these new facilities is available here.

Answers and advice about the course

If you have any queries about the course please visit our HelpMe Forum.

HelpMe Forum: MA Photography

Additional information

2010 Postgraduate Prospectus (4.82 MB)

Funding your study

A Master’s degree represents a significant investment in your future, and you will rightly be concerned about funding. Our student fees & funding section outlines fees for full and part time students and has guides to introduce you to ways of funding your course at Falmouth.

Creative Enterprise Cornwall

Put your skills to use in Cornwall's dynamic business environment on a paid placement project

Creative Enterprise Cornwall is a project offering financial support to postgraduate students who live in Cornwall during their studies. It is run by University College Falmouth and part-funded by the European Social Fund. The aim of the project is to promote graduate opportunities within Cornwall - develop new business skills if you are changing your career, or use the opportunity to strengthen the skills you already have. A maximum of £1250 is available.

The placement project must meet the following criteria:

• It must take place in Cornwall or benefit a Cornish company
• It must meet your course objectives (Course Leader must agree to the placement)
• Must be a minimum of one working week in duration (maximum 3 weeks) and be confirmed by the company

More information about the project can be found here

Career opportunities

On completion of this photography course, you will be able to locate your own work within the very wide range of career possibilities that photography offers. Whether your work is most comfortably situated in fine art or advertising, documentary or some branch of science, you will be able to articulate its sources, direction, and probable market.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements through the university sector include Honours Degrees, Foundation Degrees and HNDs in a related subject. If you have solid professional industry experience rather than academic achievement, this may be acceptable for entry to study at this level through a process called APEL (Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning).

More information about entry requirements and applying for our postgraduate courses can be found here

For further information about MA Photography at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214380.