Photography – (M.A.)

Photography at Brighton is promoted as a dynamic contemporary art practice. The MA is designed for students who expect an experimental, creative and critical environment in which to practice and think about photography. It acknowledges photography's multiplicity and the heterogeneous spaces that the medium now occupies in contemporary culture.

From the walls of major museums and galleries to cutting edge commercial applications, photography continues to be inserted into the world at the forefront of an expanded visual matrix that encompasses new and existing forms of electronic and analogue dissemination. The MA clearly acknowledges these dramatic transformations. In spite of this and indeed because of these developments, photography continues to be a most influential medium when it comes to analysing the wider world and our place within it. The documentary and allegorical possibilities for interpreting our local and global environment have now been strengthened practically and intellectually and further extended.

It is expected that the practice and analysis of photography on the MA will engender a culture fully committed to testing the boundaries of the medium and pushing at the edges of the discipline so as to develop a conception of what photography is and how it might be used and interpreted in the future.

Photographers are encouraged to reflect on their own position whilst representing the various positions that they may be confronted with. Subsequently, the aim is to develop practitioners who can think conceptually and who can develop new visual languages that can adequately represent the world today.

Students benefit from a wide range of photographic facilities including colour and black and white darkrooms, extensive digital facilities, and photographic studios.