BA (Hons) Photography (3 Year) at Plymouth College of Art

The fact that ours is among the country’s best equipped and well-resourced photography departments means that our programme can embrace the widest range of practice in all formats, even extending to an underwater specialism with links to Plymouth’s extensive marine facilities and agencies.

The focus is on extending students’ basic skills through darkroom practice and work with film cameras, and then guiding them towards experiment with chemical or digital technologies to produce innovative and distinctive imagery.

In discovering your own ‘voice’ you will experiment with studio set building and specialist location photography as well as high end digital techniques. Throughout the programme practical assignments will give you a grounding in the essential business, legal and ethical considerations that will underpin your future practice.

By the end of the second year you will begin to have an idea of your career direction. Deepening experiment during the third year leads to an exhibition at a major national venue.

Phil James, BA (Hons) Photography graduate, tells us about his experience of the course, "I’ve photographed bands and clubs for a long time now and have played in bands too. My tutors have given me the confidence to build a career as a photographer in the music industry and I’ve already started to work in London after we showed our degree work there."

(BA (Hons) Photography is subject to validation by The Open University)