Photography plays a crucial role in contemporary art practice. The Photography Department aims to provide a critical and educational environment in which students can develop as artists with photography at the core of their practice.
The department understands photography as a medium with no fixed identity. This disregard for a fixed essence is photography’s strength: no aesthetic purity but a multiplicity of rhetorical forms used for the creation of fact, fiction and fantasy. An informed practice of photography acknowledges the heterogeneous traditions of fine art and visual culture. It also engages with practices of reading and writing about the image. Theory and practice inform each other and this dialogue characterises committed study at MA level.
