PHOTOGRAPHY at University of Salford

By providing you with a solid foundation in photographic theory and practice, this course will offer you the opportunity to take risks, explore ideas and realise your creative potential. The course aims to create flexible, resourceful and creative photographers with well-developed transferable skills, that can be applied to a broad range of commercial, commerce and art based careers.

You will work with industry-standard equipment and studios to support you from image capture through to exhibition. You will learn to apply a range of practical contemporary photographic and digital skills in order to explore the creative and intellectual potential of existing, experimental and digital photographic techniques and their application within the creative arts and media industries.

Some of the career routes that photography graduates go on to include, archivists, art directors, curators, digital artists, exhibiting photographers, freelancers, picture researchers, printers, retouchers, studio managers, teachers, videographers. You will also have the potential to move across into related careers in marketing, branding, technical support and PR.

Overall satisfaction with this course is 92%, and 100% of students said staff are good at explaining things, they made the subject interesting and that the course is intellectually stimulating (University of Salford analysis of unpublished NSS 2019 data).

You will:

• Learn to develop your individual creative ability with the support of dedicated practitioners and tutors who have extensive experience in the field
• Learn to explore a range of professional photographic specialisms
• Learn your practice with emphasis on hybrid, experimental and trans-media platforms