Master of Arts - Fashion Photography
- 1 year
- Duration
- 18,000 GBP
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Epsom / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
A skilled photographer is the foundation of every fashionable photo shoot. You can take on that role on your own with the skills you learn on our MA Fashion Photography degree programme at UCA.
Our course will help you design, plan, and manage a Masters project by building on your prior fashion and photography knowledge.
We will give you the resources you need to succeed, including cutting-edge photography equipment, off-campus shoots, exhibition visits, and specialised lectures, seminars, tutorials, and workshops.
Internationally renowned faculty will assist your studies in a division that values experimentation. You'll develop a reputation as a multifaceted professional who can articulate thoughts in complex contexts and interact with people verbally and visually.
We put a lot of focus on publication so that you can come up with original ways to share your work outside of the realm of academia with the general audience. You will be prepared to succeed in the career of your choice, whether it is editorial fashion, curating, editing, fine art, or freelance work, with the skills and confidence you develop.
You can choose the Integrated International Pre-Masters, a year-long preparatory programme of study to get you ready for your master's in the UK, improving your speaking and writing skills in English along with your specialty skills, research knowledge, and self-confidence.
Program structure
Term one
The University, its technical workshops, and other resources will be introduced to you. In the first term, you'll take part in a variety of lectures and seminars and begin to investigate your creative practise.
- Contemporary Debates and Creative Enquiry
In addition to highlighting important topics and controversies in modern visual and material culture, this unit introduces you to a variety of research techniques and instruments appropriate for an advanced level of study in creative disciplines. It is created to make it possible for you to apply advanced study techniques to get ready to develop your MA body of work within the area of fashion photography.
- Innovating Practice
In order to inform the critical, conceptual, visual, and professional development of the body of work you'll produce during the MA, this course focuses on the investigation and invention of creative activity. In order to inspire you to hypothesise, take chances, and experiment with the potential of approaches, methods, ideas, and topics in modern fashion photography and its commercial contexts for their own project, the unit provides a structured framework.
Term two
You start working on your MA project during term two, analysing and testing the objectives of your proposal during an extended period of self-directed study.
- Project Development
As you start to work more autonomously as a creative image creator, you'll construct the core of your body of work for your MA during the course of this unit. Mentors from the business world will advise and probe students as they create their bodies of work through tutorials, group critiques, and presentations to faculty, other students, and practising artists.
Term three
You'll use the knowledge you learn through your research to produce a final body of work in the third term of the course.
- Creative Resolution and Implementation
You will continue to get guidance from business mentors in this unit through tutorials, group critiques, and presentations with faculty, fellow students, and working professionals. In the unit "Project Development and Industry Placements" or "Project Development," you'll put the knowledge you've learned from your research and practise to use as you resolve and distribute your final body of work and begin to create and carry out your career plan. You will learn how to develop, produce, finish, and begin to disseminate your body of work in this last stage of the MA, which you will firmly situate within the context of the fashion industry. The finished product, whether it be a still image or a moving picture, should be ambitious in line with your body of work and your professional goals in terms of scope and complexity, serving as a vital first step toward landing a job in the fashion photography sector.
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 18,000 GBP for international students
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Master's courses, we usually require that you have successful completion of your Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised university.
English Language requirements for MA/MSc & MBA courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.5
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 90
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 176
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Pass, Reading Pass, Speaking Pass, Writing Pass, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 38, Reading 38, Speaking 38, Writing 38, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
We'll need to examine your written or graphic portfolio for these courses in order to review it. Once you've applied, we'll send you an invitation to submit your portfolio via your applicant portal; more details will be given at that time. This can also be arranged for you if you would prefer to evaluate your work with the Academic Team in person while on campus.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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