Photography is a career that could take you in many directions - from the commercial to the artistic to the academic - with each path looking for photographers with a unique way of interpreting our communities and environment.On this course you'll learn the core practical skills and techniques you need to produce professional-standard photography, from developing your ideas and understanding your audience, to solving creative problems through collaboration and individual practice. Working with our industry-standard equipment and facilities, you'll be given a choice of pathway including still, moving, digital, and analogue images, creating projects built around themes like identity, place, documentary, and fictions. You'll also get the opportunity to work with professional clients on live briefs and enter international photography competitions.Photography at Lincoln is taught by award-winning industry practitioners and research-active academics. Programme Leader Graeme Oxby was Format Photography Festival Photo Show 2019 award winner and an exhibitor at the Indian Photo Festival presented by National Geographic 2019. Tom Martin was Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize finalist in 2011 and In Conflict - Visible White Photo Prize finalist in 2017.Students also learn from academic staff who are often engaged in world-leading or internationally excellent research. Key theoretical and critical issues will be explored, in addition to the ways these themes underpin contemporary photography practice. Students will learn to apply practical, creative, and technical approaches to create fully realised contemporary photography projects. As the programme progresses, students will have increasing autonomy in deciding the basis and form of the work they're creating.In each year, modules cover methods and materials, critical theory, and professional practice. Modules can include Contemporary Photographic Practices Dynamic Visual Forms Becoming an Effective Researcher Extended Practice and Critical Research Project.