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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

09-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Photography Media Studies Fine Art Visual Arts Modern Art

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Photography at the RCA offers a critical and educational environment where you can develop as an artist, with photography at the core of your practice. We have a fluid approach to image-making. Whether still or moving, analogue or digital, the image is, for us, thoughtful and playful: an allegorical and thoroughly visual form.

We understand photography as a discourse that encompasses and extends across multiple practices. This disregard for a fixed essence is photography’s strength: no aesthetic purity but a range of rhetorical forms used to create fact, fiction and fantasy. Equally, the boundary between the still and the moving image is fluid and porous, enabling new forms of image-making to be created and disseminated.

An informed practice of photography acknowledges the heterogeneous traditions of fine art and visual culture. It engages with practices of reading and writing about the image. At the RCA, your studies will be characterised by the dialogue between theory and practice. The Photography programme is within the School of Arts & Humanities, and your studies here will be grounded in the studio practices and theories of contemporary art rather than media and communication studies.

Modules

AcrossRCA is a compulsory 30-credit unit which is delivered as part of all MA programmes. Situated at the core of your RCA experience, this ambitious interdisciplinary College-wide unit supports you in responding to the challenges of complex, uncertain and changing physical and digital worlds. Developed in response to student feedback, AcrossRCA creates an exciting opportunity for you to collaborate meaningfully across programmes.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£15,150

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£35,950

Entry requirements

Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world. The selection process considers creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MA standards overall. You are generally expected to have a good BA degree from a photography or fine art course. You should be able to demonstrate an original and critical approach to photography as well as an ability to engage with current theories of art and culture that inform your practice.