First Year:
In Year One you will learn about workflow for both digital and darkroom applications. This is supported by a programme of technical workshops, academic lectures seminars. You will study the history of photography and produce a group exhibition to a professional standard upon completion of your first year.

• Introduction to a range of photographic specialisms and techniques
• Professional digital workflow and printing
• Photography editing techniques
• Shooting film and darkroom practice
• Studio and location lighting techniques
• Introduction to critical theory and contexts

Second Year
In year two you will work with moving image and produce work around a chosen subject area. This might include client focused work, a photographic publication or a body of work for other outputs and responses. This is again supported by critical investigation of how to read photographs and understand the importance of images and the various uses and applications in the world today.

• Advanced techniques and processes
• Creative thought processes in the production of images
• Moving image skills
• Story telling through visual imagery
• Critical thinking and contemporary photography
• Independent working and your own photographic practice

Final Year:
In your final year you will work towards creating a professional portfolio a written dissertation and an industry ready portfolio of work as you consider your personal independent practice and prepare for employment and/or further study.

• Project research and development
• Your dissertation or report
• Professional practice skills (including employability, self-promotion and networking)
• Your Final Major Project
• An exhibition of your work and production of your portfolio

Workshops and lectures have been provided by a range of world-renowned photographers.

These have included:
• Martin Parr - Magnum Photos
• Tom Stoddart -Photojournalist Getty Images
• Yan Preston – Photographer
• Jamie Hawkesworth – Fashion Photographer
• Julia Fullerton-Batten Fine Art Photographer
• Tim Wallace – Advertising Photographer
• Tim Clark - 1000 Words Editor
• Frede Spencer - Twenty Twenty Photography Agent
• Pippa Oldfield - Curator & Writer
• Mimi Mollica - Documentary Photographer
• Simon Roberts - Photographer & Honorary Fellow Royal Photographic Society
• Matt Finn Documentary Photographer
• Alison Baskerville – Photojournalist
• Peter Dench - World Press Photo
• Zelda Cheatle - Photography Expert
• Tessa Bunney - Klompching Gallery New York
• Lucinda Grange - International Photographer

Study Visits
We arrange cultural visits to galleries and exhibitions across the UK and internationally.
Including: • Amsterdam • Barcelona • Berlin • London • Paris • Prague

Our graduates have gone on to pursue successful careers within this industry.

Including:
• Boo George, Vogue
• Peter Caton, Photojournalist + NGO
• Lucinda Grange, Travel Photographer, New York
• Jason Hynes, Independent Photographer
• Lauren Fletcher, Editorial Photographer
• Georgia Donkin, Sotheby’s

Graduates are working or undertaking postgraduate training in a wide range of careers including:

• Editorial
• Documentary
• Fashion
• Advertising
• Photojournalism
• Sport
• Social Portraiture
• Photo Retouching
• Picture Editing
• Publishing
• Curating
• Education

• Darkroom and Printing Skills
• Digital Workflow and Studio Lighting
• Advertising and Fashion Photography
• Documentary Photography and Storytelling
• Moving Image
• Creative Thinking and Context
• Professional Practice
• Final Show and Portfolio

Your portfolio is a visual statement it says a lot about an applicant and their practice. The advice below is not meant to be restrictive but rather offers some simple advice to help you prepare for your interview.

What we like to see
• Clearly laid out portfolio, which is easy to look through.
• Evidence of visual imagery/photographs that you have created yourself.
• Considered quality not quantity and avoiding repetition.
• Organised into sections.
• Notebooks/contact sheets that indicate developmental processes - experimental.
• Simple presentation – if mounted black or white board is preferable.

Photographs
Series of photographs that indicate interpretation/technical ability - use of light, composition, print quality, narrative, interaction with the subject, visual story, associated research and how this feeds into the project – relevance, individuality, ideas, experimentation, evidence of an ability to take a creative risk and experiment.

Sketchbooks
Evidence of your level of understanding photographic technique; this includes an ability to use a camera with exposure/composition/lenses, different focal lengths and work flow. Written work will include the influence and reference to other photographers/artists/filmmakers.

Digital Work
If bringing a digital portfolio, we advise a maximum of 20 images prepared and ready to view on a tablet/laptop. The work should be considered and organized, displaying the ability that you have decided to choose key images before placing them in the appropriate order to be viewed during the interview. Be selective with your images that you can talk confidently about.

Finally
Be honest. Be yourself. Relax.

Our school engages with a wide range of partners working across each creative sub-sector to ensure that teaching and learning are in line with the latest developments in and requirements of industry, including:

Alex Schneidman
Alex Schneideman is a photographer and master printer. In 2004 he founded FLOW. FLOW is a fine art photographic printing studio - a leading destination for galleries, photographers, artists from across the world. FLOW mix a bespoke approach to printing work with state-of-the-art technology for a global clientele.
flowphotographic.com

Jamie Hawkesworth
Jamie Hawkesworth is a British fashion and documentary photographer. Hawkesworth's first photography project was made in Preston bus station as a member of the collective Preston is My Paris. The work was published in their 2010 self-published newspaper as well as in his own 2017 book, both called Preston Bus Station.
He is now an in-demand fashion photographer for the likes of Vogue and the New York Times, his portraits of models in expensive clothes retain his signature style, a merging of documentary and street portraiture.
In 2021 he published The British Isles which The Guardian describes as “an index of a modern, multicultural Britain in all its rich otherness, it is also a portrait of a place that is definably British in its myriad telltale social signifiers, from fish and chips to seaside fairgrounds, train platforms to corner shops.”
jamiehawkesworth.co.uk

Frede Spencer
Frede is the founder of Twenty Twenty. Twenty Twenty is a London based creative agency representing a multi-disciplined group of visual artists working across photography, illustration, motion and CGI. They specialise in creating work for advertising, automotive, fashion, still life and lifestyle. Twenty Twenty also includes a full service production arm for shoots both in the UK and overseas.
twentytwenty.co