Studying Photography offers an avenue for students who are seeking to develop their technical photographic style, creative voice and visual communication skills. You will have regular contact with the experienced photographic teaching team including, myself, Rob Ball, Carl Bigmore and Melanie King who will provide comprehensive guidance throughout your degree.

The staff and students on the degree are part of a wider community of creative practitioners in the School of Creative Arts and Industries which includes performers, composers, producers, designers, and dancers, and we hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to gain inspiration from this diverse group to help expand and enhance your own creative practice.

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As creative practitioners, we expect you to be looking at the work and ideas of others in the lead up to joining the course. This might be in publications, exhibitions or books. Immerse yourself in interesting work and your own practice will flourish.

Your welcome and induction will be w/c 16 September 2024 - we look forward to meeting you then.

We’ll give you more extended reading lists once you begin University. However, here are two books which we would like you to invest in and become familiar with before you arrive:

• Badger, G. (2010) The Pleasures of Good Photographs. Aperture.
• Cotton, C (2014) The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 3rd Edition, Thames and Hudson.

It is useful to note that the University Bookshop offers 10% discount on most titles in print and have some price-beating book bundles. They also price match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.