BA (Hons) Photography Highlights

Amazing range of guest lectures and workshops
Talks and hands-on workshop sessions from creative directors and photographers this semester have included a range of creatives from a variety of backgrounds and specialties.  This allows students to gain a well-rounded outlook of the breadth of directions that photography can take them.  
Speakers have included Nicola Shipley of Grain Agency, specialising in Fine Art Photography and Paul Hawkins of Plinkfizz giving insights into Creative Networking. James Fickling delivered a Brand Masterclass and the amazing Lou Jasmine shared her experiences, how she celebrates being neurospicy ,works with this, and the boundaries set with major clients.

Photocitizens International Photography Festival
Engaging with the world and bringing real life opportunities to our photography students is essential and a key part of their learing. Photocitizens International Photography Festival is unique to our course.  This award-winning festival that we host has given our students the chance to exhibit work in Vietnam, USA, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Greece, Ireland and Lebanon.  
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Adobe Photoshop Certified Professionals
Students from across the Photography degree have been given the opportunity to complete the Adobe Photoshop Certified Professional exam, alongside their core learning and practice.  As well as the accreditation, they also receive full access to the Adobe Creative suite for home use until the end of their studies.  We celebrate the students making the most of these additional activities on offer, and they bolster their learning on our industry-focused course.

Amsterdam trip
In Spring was a trip to Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands with an impressive artistic heritage.  Photography students from across all years of study were part of a wider Art and Design group, that also included Illustration and Graphic Design students.   Students explored a range of leading art & design agencies and galleries with expert curatorial talks.  Collectively they visited Huis Marseille, OSCAM, FOAM and Rijksmuseum.  This was a great experience to highlight current thinking in Photography and more importantly exhibition strategies. 

Photo Northwest Festival Showcase on campus
We were proud to be one of ten universities chosen to host the Photo Northwest Festival Showcase.  Peter Dench presented his practice and gave our students advice regarding breaking into photography and sustaining a career.

This was followed by a short presentation about Photo North Festival highlighting the importance of building our creative identity.

More guest speakers and workshops: Lydia Goldblatt
L5 and L6 students have for the entirety of their studies so far, worked together with visiting speakers to better understand the function of the Photobook (narrative, sequence, pace and design).  We did this again in February with the amazing Lydia Goldblatt.  This was followed by a workshop and talk from insightaware.org.  The representation of others and ways in which photography can be used to empower individuals and groups were explored.