What Makes This Course So Special?
This unique course considers a broad spectrum of commercial and applied photography and in particular issues concerning commercial representation and the future for imaging within this context.
Considerable attention is given to creating a stimulating course environment where individuals are encouraged to develop a signature photographic style and to express their concerns independently. Emphasis is placed upon practice driven work, transferable professional skills and personal development enabling you to graduate with confidence in your abilities and ideas.
Opportunities to take part in collaborative projects with Fashion Design and Advertising Design students are also offered simulating the collaborative nature of the commercial industry.
Find out more about the subject of Photography at Newport.
Course Intro
The course aims to teach you essential analogue and digital skills for a vocation in applied photography. To supplement these skills you are grounded in social, historical, political and theoretical issues affecting photography, fashion, advertising and visual culture.
You are encouraged to think for yourself, to express your creative impulses and develop your own aesthetic responses to industry style briefs. Your emerging skills are contextualised in realistic projects where an emphasis is placed on experimentation and teamwork as well as written and verbal communication skills.
Problem solving and lateral thinking are key to a successful freelance career and the course explores the power of limits as an essential developmental tool.
Our team comprises experienced tutors and leading industry figures who contribute to the teaching of the programme. Your studies benefit from a range of practitioners drawn from a broad commercial background including photographers, stylists, agents, art directors, editors and art buyers.
A programme specification is available for this course.
What you Study
In your first year you will be introduced to a wide range of photographic techniques and styles in line with the profession today. Practical studio and location photography will be supported by lectures, seminars and workshops covering a wide range of ideas around advertising, fashion and visual media.
Your second year will allow you to understand how your work might be placed in a variety of contexts including the magazine and advertising industries. More advanced skills in photography and image manipulation will be supported by tuition in design and art direction to complement the photographic work. Professional practice is a key element of this stage, when aspects of business, marketing and professional networking will be introduced, including self-initiated work placements and live industry briefs.
During your third year you will concentrate on a major self-initiated project to advance your work to a high professional standard producing a resolved body of work, with a view to launching yourself into the workplace. Involvement with the industry is seen as important at this stage and you will be supported in liaising with industry professionals to understand and produce work that will fit within a contemporary context according to your chosen career path.
Where Next?
You will be equipped with a wide range of transferable skills to enable you to work across a number of areas within the broad context of professional photography, advertising, fashion and the media.
Interview Required
Interviews are friendly, informal and your opportunity to demonstrate your passion for the subject area, discuss your creative portfolio along with a completed interview task. Please edit your work carefully to demonstrate your strengths and present it professionally.
What Out Students Say
“Newport gives you the freedom to shoot on various media and at different locations. The course is challenging, inspiring and fun because we’re given artistic freedom along with guidance from innovative lecturers to take us to a professional level.”