This programme has been developed to offer a creative course to cater for a variety of specialist interests from surf action photography to photo-journalism to wildlife and issue-based photography such as concerns about sustainability, ecology and environment as well as sport, surfing and other associated activities.The course will help you to understand the fundamentals of how to practice as a photographer in the changing world of visual and photographic communication. You will develop skills in the various fields of photography covering topics such as Natural History, Sports and Social Documentary as well as helping to develop marketing skills and using social media to facilitate work opportunities.
Strong emphasis is placed upon photographic practice with all students carrying out creative work to a professional standard. Contextual understanding is also key as are the various projects undertaken in conjunction with organisations such as Surfers Against Sewage and the European Centre for Human Health. Many of our students have gone on to work independently in various fields from motor sport F1, surfing and editorial as well as NGO charity based work. Photography is ever more popular and increasingly becoming more competitive, our small and experienced team of lecturers will provide you with generous support so that you can produce work that is both creative and commercially relevant.
We are a small department that offers a supportive, individual experience set in Cornwall with easy access to the ocean and other stunning locations. You will be working on briefs and simulated briefs whilst being supported by high calibre staff, professional photographers and other visiting lecturers. For example your course leader and personal tutor Andy Hughes is an internationally recognized photographer who is working with international publishers in London and New York. In 2013 he was awarded a prestigious art-science commission to travel to Alaska with other world leading scientists and artists. The subsequent exhibition, National Geographic movie and book will tour the USA. He also teaches for the Open College.
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