Photography Practice MA

**Why study MA Photography Practice at Goldsmiths**<br/>**This Masters is focused on developing your critical and creative photographic practice. It approaches photography as an expanded art form, holding space for its many intersections with other mediums and practices, including but not limited to moving image, CGI, installation, sculpture, performance and technology.**<br/><br/>Photography as an art form is undergoing a radical transformation in its contemporary encounter with new technologies such as CGI and Generative AI. This moment also sees a resurgence in artists using traditional analogue technologies and approaches a counterpoint to the increasing quantity and decreasing legibility of the images flooding our everyday lives. With specialist training and facilities in both cutting-edge digital and traditional analogue processes, the MA in Photography Practice encourages you to fully embrace the complexities and opportunities that image-making poses at this exciting point in time.<br/><br/>The strong synthesis of theory and practice in the programme helps you to develop your own critical perspectives on the meaning, production, and distribution of images in their present and historical contexts.<br/><br/>You will also advance your knowledge and skills in both digital and analogue technologies, as well as still and durational image-making, installation, and exhibition design.<br/><br/>You will have the opportunity to take part in a variety of workshops such as:<br/>- Medium/large format film cameras<br/><br/><br/>- Analogue photographic printing in the darkroom<br/><br/><br/>- Portable and studio lighting technologies<br/><br/><br/>- Film technology and alternative darkroom techniques<br/><br/><br/>- Videography and video editing<br/><br/><br/>- Digital imaging<br/><br/><br/>- Digital post-production and editing<br/><br/><br/>- 3D modelling<br/><br/><br/>- Book/zine design and making<br/><br/><br/>- AI image generation<br/><br/><br/>Throughout your studies, you will have access to analogue and digital cameras, darkrooms, photographic studios, and digital post-production and printing facilities to help you fully realise your work, culminating in an exhibition in the summer.<br/><br/>The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies has been ranked second in the UK for world-leading or internationally excellent research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings by Subject for communication and media studies.