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The course is aimed at a range of photography practitioners. Students are admitted through formal university applications and interviews (with a portfolio of work). You will also be required to submit a personal statement and an indicative project proposal about how you intend to use the 17-month course to develop a significant body of photographic work. We would also like you to include a short video of yourself.

Please note that we can only consider your application once you upload all four items together (portfolio, personal statement, indicative project proposal and video). You will receive email instructions on how to upload these items once you have submitted your application form for the course.

The minimum entry qualifications for the field are:

a 2:2 or above honours degree (or its equivalent) in a related or appropriate subject. However, each application is considered on its own merits and therefore previous experience and qualifications may be taken into account.

International and mature students with relevant experiences, interests, motivation and commitment are welcomed.

Please provide a maximum of 20 pages of your practical work.

a selection of your professional work (if relevant)

this can include examples of preparatory creative work (for example, images from your sketchbooks)

Please carefully select and edit your work to produce an exciting, creative and representative portfolio which informs us about your skills, interests and ambitions.

Each page may include more than one image.

In your personal statement please provide information about yourself and why you want to join the course. The statement should be 300–500 words and should include:

What you are doing at the moment educationally, professionally and personally.

Reasons why you think you are a suitable candidate for acceptance onto the course.

Your project proposal (300–500 words) should include details about how you intend to use the course to develop a significant body of photographic work.

Briefly outline and describe the specific project/area of research that you are interested in undertaking and developing.

This should include aims, objectives and rationale and include:

Personal relevance to the project proposed.

Your proposed approach and methods you may use.

Reference to artists and photographers relevant to the project proposal.

Any interdisciplinary aspects to the project if appropriate.

We would like you to include a short video of yourself talking about your work and ideas, and answering the following questions.

Please do not read your answers from a script, we would like to see you speak spontaneously to the camera.

Upload the video clip to a site (i.e. Vimeo, YouTube, etc) that does not require a username or password for us to access and view your video.

Once you have done so, please copy and paste the web link to your video onto a Word document and upload that document to your OSIS account as per the instructions below.

What are you doing at the moment educationally, professionally, and personally?

What kind of images do you want to make and why?

Why did you choose our MA Photography to apply to, what are you looking to gain from the course?

All non-UK applicants must meet our English language requirement, which is an Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.5 in Speaking and Listening and a minimum of 5.5 in Reading and Writing.

Applicants who do not meet the English language requirements could be eligible to join our pre-sessional English language course.

Applicants from recognised majority English-speaking countries (MESCs) do not need to meet these requirements.

Admissions Option 2

This research-led course engages with the photographic in its widest sense (analogue and digital, new media and technology, still and moving images, installation, performance and engagements with the archive).

You will have access to all of Kingston School of Art's workshops and be encouraged to experiment with photography in new and innovative ways as an artist.

The key emphasis of this course is on supporting and developing the direction of your practice led-research through tutorials, presentations, and regular seminar discussions where you will be taught how to research and conceptualise your work.

The range of critical theory extends across dialogical aesthetics, ethnography, post-colonial theory, globalisation, environmentalism, social justice issues, queer theory and gender-based debates, privacy and surveillance, politics of the internet and technological aspects of the photographic medium.

You'll take three modules, worth a total of 180 credits.

Critical Theory in Photography and Visual Culture

Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.

Curriculum

Depending on the programme of study, there may be extra costs that are not covered by tuition fees which students will need to consider when planning their studies. Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessment and operating University facilities such as the library, access to shared IT equipment and other support services. Accommodation and living costs are not included in our fees.

Where a course has additional expenses, we make every effort to highlight them. These may include optional field trips, materials (e.g. art, design, engineering), security checks such as DBS, uniforms, specialist clothing or professional memberships.

Program Tuition Fees Option 2

Tuition Fee

There is a wide range of facilities at our Knights Park campus, where this course is based. Kingston School of Art has recently completed an ambitious programme of investment, making significant improvements to our workshops and other resources, to ensure that students are exposed to as many creative pathways as possible. The workshops and studios at Knights Park are open for creative exploration and allow opportunities for students and staff to collaborate on projects and share ideas, whether they are studying or researching. There are many adaptable studio and workshop spaces, active breakout spaces and stronger vertical and horizontal connections. Our ground-breaking facilities include the following:

3D workshop, with ceramics, concrete, resin-casting, plastics, metalwork, woodwork and a bronze-casting foundry, as well as a Big Build space for Architecture, set design and large-scale model making

Fashion (knitting and sewing workshops), with digital and analogue facilities, plus a working dress archive which includes pieces from 1750 to the present day

HackSpace (for collaborative, creative, solutions-focussed projects)

Letterpress and printmaking workshop, with digital and analogue facilities, to experiment creatively

Moving Image workshop, with studios, editing suite, and industry-standard equipment

Photography workshop, including studios, colour, black and white darkrooms, and processing facilities. This professional-standard suite includes two new digital imaging areas, darkroom areas, two double-height photography studios and a general preparation, finishing and demonstration area. There is also an extensive range of equipment for loan and students are able to purchase photography materials. The colour and black and white darkrooms provide extensive facilities for film processing.

All our facilities are open access, meaning you can use them whenever you want, whatever degree you're studying.

The University also has its own on-site galleries, including:

Dorich House - the former studio home of the sculptor Dora Gordine and her husband the Hon. Richard Hare, a scholar of Russian art and literature. Now Grade II listed, the building was completed in 1936, to Gordine's design, and is an exceptional example of a modern studio house created by and for a female artist.

Stanley Picker Gallery - one of the leading examples of a university gallery in the UK. Its public activities are dedicated to the research, commissioning and presentation of innovative new practices across the fields of art, design and architecture for general, academic and specialist audiences.

Project spaces at the Knights Park campus, which you can book for the exhibition of large-scale work.

Facilities Option 2

Master

Art Studies

Photography

At Kingston University, we are passionate about enhancing our students' life chances by helping them make the most of their learning opportunities and equipping them with the future skills and knowledge needed in the 21st Century's demanding workplace.

MA in Photography

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What you will study

Modules

Program Tuition Fee

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