MA Design Communication: Fashion Photography

Bristol, UWE

This course offers you the chance to extend your practice and explore new areas in the changing world of industry and design. You'll learn to be independent, research effectively, question and be critical, and to sustain practice for the long term.

You'll study a curriculum carefully sequenced to deliver a dynamic student journey over three intensive terms.

The first term will include an immersive introduction to diverse graphic arts practices. You'll be asked to push your existing perception of fashion photography processes, becoming familiar with a breadth of techniques and technologies while responding innovatively to set briefs. At the end of the first term, you'll explore and connect arts research and discourse across a community of postgraduate peers. This will result in the presentation of bold, change-making creative proposals.

The second term will provide opportunities for you to develop your graphic response to contemporary discourse in fashion photography. Through conceptual and technical experimentation, you'll realise a body of creative work. This development leads into the third term, where you will have the opportunity to refine your ideas within a supportive community of interdisciplinary practice, technical expertise, and academic criticality when completing your final project. You'll present your work to the public at our MA Showcase.

Throughout the year, you'll develop your understanding of enterprise within the creative industries and develop knowledge of the contemporary character and conventions of the creative economy. You will have the opportunity to refine your professional skills, attributes and identity in preparation to succeed in an uncertain and complex cultural landscape.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course.