A recorded version of the talk we deliver on Open Day is below (40 mins)
This covers: course aims and overview, structure of the years, staff, technical facilities, Bristol and more!
Key information about our course:
The course is designed help you realise your full potential as a photographer through a curriculum that is designed to give you an excellent skills base and the creative freedom to translate your ideas into a unique image portfolio.
We are industry focussed and our aim is to prepare you for working in the wonderful world of the creative arts by helping you make highly professional work and to understand how the sector operates.
The programme offers a vibrant, collaborative environment, both modern and traditional facilities, supportive workshop instruction and expert input, all underpinned by a culture of independent research.
You will have access to a wide range of the latest industry-standard technical resources, across digital and analogue platforms.
We support all types of photography. We are interested in what connects different genres and exploring the overlapping spaces, exploiting these to create your own visual style.
Ultimately, we are looking to create ‘artists with savvy’, to give you an edge and a visual language that can sustain you in a career in the creative sector.
Some reasons why we think you made the right choice:
· This course is outstanding, with at least 98% of students satisfied with teaching and learning opportunities and 100% satisfaction in academic support in the most recent NSS (National Student Survey).
· We have a diverse range of lecturers who are world leading practitioners, such as Amak Mahmoodian, Jack Latham, Shawn Sobers, Aaron Schuman and Clare Hewitt to name a few, that have incredible industry insight
· We regularly hold field trips abroad and have travelled to New York, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Vienna and Paris to name to a few choice destinations.
· We strike a balance between personal creativity, technical excellence and professionalism that is admired by some of the top photographers, curators, picture editors, and art buyers in Europe.
· The City of Bristol was named most liveable city in a Sunday Times poll, which described it as being ‘cool, classy and supremely creative’. It has a well-established grassroots arts culture and a strong photographic community that includes The Royal Photographic Society (RPS), The Martin Parr Foundation (MPF), The Bristol Photography Festival 2024 (BPF), Arnolfini, IC Visual Lab, and RRB Photobooks, all of which we are connected to and affiliated with.
· Alumni from the course have been successful on many levels, including awards and commissions and publishing from Time Magazine, The Guardian, FT Weekend, Sunday Times, The BBC, Vogue Italia Dazed & Confused, Wonderland, Paris Photo Carte Blanche, British Journal of Photography, It's Nice That, Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, Virgin Records and Magnum Photos. They have exhibited work at the National Portrait Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery, Printspace, and the Venice Biennale. Students and alumni have
worked with some of the most respected photographers in the world including Tim Walker, Jane Hilton, Martin Parr, Juno Calypso, Viviane Sassen, Steve McCurry and Zed Nelson.
Opportunities you may not have been aware that we offer:
· Study abroad at an affiliated programme during the second year of the course
· Work experience with appropriate hosts in many different fields
· To exhibit work at major galleries in Bristol and London.