Fashion Photography BA (Hons)

Environment
You'll examine the relation of photography to environment, with a particular emphasis on space. Internal and external, urban and rural environments are an important feature of our cultural, social and political experience. This unit provides the opportunity to explore these ideas through the genres of documentary, architecture, landscape and street photography.

Styling Identity
You'll extend your knowledge of creative fashion styling, identity and image creation practice from a theoretical and practical perspective. This unit aims to use and explore various approaches to research, and empower you in the complex process of analysing a more diverse range of sources and interpreting your findings in a wider range of outcomes.

Image Making
After a basic introduction to a range of different methodologies, exploring the notions of the singular image, tableau, series and/or montage, you'll decide on the mode of production of your work. Your project can be realised in the studio, with the option to undertake set-builds; or on location, as appropriate to your concept. This will be a visual project with outputs such as a book, exhibition, installation, moving image, magazine, zine or online publication.

Individual Project
This concludes the first year and encourages you to reflect upon your progress so far, consolidate your successes and begin to make not defined by a set brief but driven by personal research and exploration.

Photo-Object
The Photo-Object unit encourages you to consider the relationship between photography and objects. This basic premise will be explored through a series of workshops focusing on the composition, lighting and layering of objects, within both studio and external settings. Working alongside these sessions will be a series of related lectures.

Fashion Film
Working as part of a team (or individually if you wish) you'll use story and mood-boards to develop a fashion film concept and style, then establish timelines to help organise production and meet deadlines, from finding actors/models, scouting locations, shooting and editing audio-visual footage, to post-production and promotion of your work. You'll be guided along the way by workshops, which twill encourage you to experiment with new techniques and learn to create technically proficient and visually exciting audio-visual work. You’ll be expected to locate your work within wider industrial, social and cultural developments, potentially culminating in the showcasing of your film.

Storytelling
You'll produce a substantial body of work reflecting upon your learning, creativity and individuality. You'll be encouraged to experiment, challenge your image making skills and produce a series of work that forms a coherent narrative. The story, and how you tell it, is up to you but should be considered and reflect upon your research into historical and contemporary practice in visual culture.

Exposure: Positioning Practice
This unit serves to consolidate your learning throughout year two and focuses attention on where your practice and career are heading in the short and long term. It is designed to synthesise understanding of your practice with regard to the dissemination of work, possible directions you might take in year three, and consideration of where you might want to work within the creative industries.

Study Abroad (optional)
Is an optional unit that will allow you to spend a period of time in an overseas education institution.

Major Project
This requires you to make a significant body of work, drawing on the skills and knowledge you've acquired on the course. Essentially, your independently led project requires sustained critical development, strong conceptual ideas, risk taking, aesthetic judgement, and sophisticated communication with a detailed understanding of context.

Exposure
The Exposure unit is intended to help you progress your photographic practice along with your communication and professional skills, and has two distinct elements. The first is to produce a photographic body of work along with associated contextual input with a professional client. Secondly, you will produce a professional dossier including your career plan, personal branding, evidence to accompany your input into the year three exhibitions and a photographic portfolio.

Independent Research
This written unit comprises a substantial period of sustained, individually negotiated research on a subject likely to be related to the contextual and/or theoretical concerns of your chosen area of study (which may include specific disciplinary concern and/or wider cultural practice).

This course offers the opportunity to study abroad for part of your second year. To find out more about studying abroad as part of your course please see the Study Abroad section:

• Study abroad information

Through industry-facing project briefs, strong links with practitioners at multiple levels, portfolio reviews, visiting lectures, and annual exhibitions, students are introduced to a range of voices and experiences within the world of fashion photography, photography and moving image.

We also hold weekly lectures with well-known names within the industry. Past lecturers have included:

• Rut Blees Luxemburg
• Sophie Rickett
• Stephen Gill
• Eva Stenram
• John Stezaker
• Simon Roberts
• Esther Teichmann
• Olivia Pomp
• Roy Mehta
• Shirley Read
• David Vintiner
• Cameron Griffiths
• Katja Mayer
• Karl Ohiri
• Kathleen McGown
• Rosie Whitney-Fish
• Holly Lansdell
• Claudia Singer
• Lewis Bush
• Tia Treherne
• Frederike Helwig
• Catherine Viellevoije
• Sasha Hitchcock
• Peter Dench
• Cheryl Newman
• Oliver Gapper
• Anne Pinxt-Braybon
• Nigel Grimmer
• Junko Mikuriya
• Vivek Vadoliya
• Christopher Coekin
• Tiffany Jones
• Nils Rikard Osterlund
• Rosemary Martin
• Ophelia Wynne
• Giacomo Brunelli

Our graduates have landed roles in a dazzling range of fields, including:

• Fashion
• Editorial
• Advertising
• Fine Art
• Freelance photography
• Post-production
• Digital imaging
• Video editing
• Production
• Art buying and direction
• Picture editing
• Research
• Image management
• Marketing.