MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
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Photography is a key medium of the 21st century. We record every aspect of our lives with smartphone cameras, consume knowledge through image flows, are exposed to constant surveillance via security cameras while feeding computer databases with our social media images.Photography itself is undergoing a radical transformation in its encounter with CGI (computer generated images) and AI (artificial intelligence). This MA programme gives practitioners and theorists the opportunity to research and ...Read more

Photography is a key medium of the 21st century. We record every aspect of our lives with smartphone cameras, consume knowledge through image flows, are exposed to constant surveillance via security cameras while feeding computer databases with our social media images.

Photography itself is undergoing a radical transformation in its encounter with CGI (computer generated images) and AI (artificial intelligence). This MA programme gives practitioners and theorists the opportunity to research and develop the new boundaries of image-making made possible by technological change within the context of post-industrial culture.

The programme joins theory and practice, equipping you to develop and achieve highly in the new image media culture. The practice uses both digital and analogue technology, still and durational photography, as well as the study and production of interactivity.

It also allows for specialisation in photography and/or electronic arts – which, in addition to still photography, can include interactive, durational, and internet work – but encompasses a broader interpretation of practice. You'll look at the meaning, production, and distribution of images in their present and historical contexts, and at the relationship between theory and practice in image production and management.

You also participate in enabling sessions in photography:

  • medium/large format cameras
  • portable and studio lighting technologies and their use
  • film technology
  • cinematography
  • digital imaging
  • output systems and processes

and/or in electronic arts:

  • computer and video graphics
  • post-production
  • computer-aided design
  • digital publishing
  • animation
  • animatics
  • 2D and 3D computer animation
  • still and durational image production and manipulation
  • web construction
  • interactivity

Skills

You'll develop specific practice skills to a high level, and the articulation/understanding of the pleasures of media consumption.

Careers

Graduates from the programme are extremely successful, with finalists working commercially, developing as artists or continuing to enlarge their academic knowledge. During the course particular attention is given to the development of the individual voice. This, plus students' exposure to a range of technologies, means that our graduates can step into the arena of their choice, or sometimes of their making.

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74th
What students say
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Yiying
22 Feb 23

Advantages: The professors and lecturers of the school are very friendly and willing to help students. The courses are very advanced and meet the needs of the contemporary market...Read more

SR
Student Reviewer
24 Feb 15

I've loved my almost 4 years at Goldsmiths and wouldn't change it for anything. The best thing about the course is the freedom afforded to have personal interests. It's hard to..Read more

Modules

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Entry requirements

Students should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject as well a level of practical experience in a relevant area.

Tuition fees

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£12,520 per year

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£25,270 per year

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Students from EU

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The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.

£25,270 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

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Yiying
22 Feb 23
MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts
Advantages: The professors and lecturers of the school are very friendly and willing to help students. The courses are very advanced and meet the needs of the contemporary market....
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SR
Student Reviewer
24 Feb 15
MA Photography & Urban Cultures
I've loved my almost 4 years at Goldsmiths and wouldn't change it for anything. The best thing about the course is the freedom afforded to have personal interests. It's hard to...
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Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross Lewisham SE14 6NW United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: New Cross  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: New Cross  0.1 miles away
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