MA Commercial Photography
University of the Arts, London
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MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence, and can support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer. Whether you’re interested in working across areas such as advertising, fashion, lifestyle and editorial, you’ll be supported to develop a high level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography.Course overviewMA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence and will support your ambitions ...Read more

MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence, and can support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer. Whether you’re interested in working across areas such as advertising, fashion, lifestyle and editorial, you’ll be supported to develop a high level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography.

Course overview

MA Commercial Photography focuses on technical excellence and will support your ambitions towards becoming a high-end freelance photographer.

You will be interested in working across areas of commercial practice, such as advertising, fashion, still -life, portraiture and fine art, lifestyle and editorial. Alternatively, you may wish to develop other career pathways – for example, as a retoucher, creative producer, digital technician or picture editor.

This course will support you to develop an advanced level of competence in responding to key and changing developments across contemporary commercial photography. Within this, you’ll consider the impact of global and ethical issues and accelerating technologies which demand responsive practices, adaptive visual approaches and distinctive concept development.

Independent learning is a key feature of the course, with a focus on the integration of contemporary technical and business skills underpinned by critical and research practices throughout.

What to expect

You’ll take an enquiry-led approach to independent learning through discovery, interaction and response to change.

Throughout the course, you’ll create substantial self-initiated projects, synthesising your skills, knowledge and understanding, while enabling you to create a substantial professional portfolio for your future career.

You’ll develop a strong foundation in technical, critical and research skills that will enable you to grow critical awareness in your personal practice while establishing a distinctive individual identity to your work.

Commercial photography practice is rooted in collaboration, which is strongly encouraged and foregrounded throughout the course. You’ll present and communicate projects to peers and partners, demonstrating critical awareness through interdisciplinary work.

For your Final Major Project, you’ll be supervised and supported to undertake a significant piece of work, including research planning and the application of models of commercial photographic practice.

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Entry requirements

Educational level may be demonstrated by: an honours degree in photography or a photographic/visual/lens-based related area; Possession of equivalent qualifications; Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required; or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.

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£13,330 per year

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

£28,570 per year

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

£28,570 per year

This information is updated by IDP Connect, or in some cases the institution directly.
Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from International

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The mentioned fee is for 2024/25 entry. There may be a slight increase in 2025/26 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

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