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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.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
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.
Admission Requirements
6.5+
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.
1 Year
Sep
Domestic
15,150 GBP
International
37,000 GBP
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Photography MA
Battersea, London, United Kingdom
# 1QS Subject Rankings
12 monthsProgramme duration
37,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
Art and DesignMain Subject Area
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
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.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
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.
Admission 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.
Domestic
International
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