Program Overview

Photography MA

Course Overview

Our Photography MA course offers a comprehensive curriculum focused on mastering image-making and engaging with audiences.

What You'll Study

Modules

• Paper, Pixel, Light, Pigment (30 credits)
  • Introduced to new tools, technologies, and techniques that challenge and improve your current methods.
  • Develop your own practice, exploring questions and interventions relevant to your work and future goals.
• Co-Create (30 credits)
  • Collaborate on a simulated or real-life project created by industry experts.
  • Work with students from other postgraduate courses in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, applying your specialist discipline knowledge to form an essential part of a wider team.
• Present and Publish (30 credits)
  • Explore how presentation strategies can enhance your photographic work and engage with clients, communities, and other practitioners.
  • Experiment and bring your work to life beyond the university, with support from a publishing-experienced team.
• Professional Practice and Innovation (30 credits)
  • Explore ecologies of the creative industries, considering the interrelations between independent, commercial, and public sectors.
  • The module is designed in collaboration with The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) from which you’ll have a 12-month fellowship so you can access all RSA resources and platforms during your period of study.
• Making and Making Public: Final Project (60 credits)
  • Using your newly acquired skills, you will build on prior experimentation to develop an original body of work.
  • This module gives you the freedom to produce work aligned with your personal goals while developing the skills needed to complete high-quality work beyond the university setting.

How You'll Learn

• Teaching and learning methods may include lectures, seminars, tutorials, presentations, demonstrations, group projects, workshops, practical studio sessions, and external visits.
• A vital component of the course is to instil confidence and purpose in how you use technologies, processes, and mediums which are important to your practice.

Entry Requirements

• Typical entry requirements:
  • UK: An honours degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
  • International: An honours degree 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
• Portfolio: You may be asked to show a portfolio of your creative work.
• English language requirements: IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.

Fees and Funding

• Student | Full-time | Part-time
  • UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man: £11,200 | Not available
  • EU: £11,200 per year with EU Support Bursary** | Not available
  • International: £18,600 | Not available

Facilities

• Media loan service: Provides you with access to the equipment and support you need to excel in your studies.
• Professional studios: The school has leading facilities, from metal work and ceramics to immersive studios with innovative VR technologies.
• Photography suite: A space for students to process, print, and play with images in a professional environment.

Careers and Opportunities

• The course aims to shape you to be a maker and thinker working in a variety of roles in photography, the visual arts, and beyond.
• On successful completion, you could go on to work as a freelance photographer, publisher, visual artist, picture editor, curator, archivist, researcher, writer, gallery and museum educator, or art therapist.

Where Our Graduates Work

• Alumni from photography courses at Coventry have set up their own publishing imprints, commercial studios, and other freelance careers as well as working with organisations like Arts Council England, Multistory, Grain Projects, NHS England, and The British Journal of Photography.