Photography

Reasons to choose Kingston

• We’re ranked No.2 in London for Film Production and Photography (The Guardian University Guide League Tables 2023).

• You can prepare yourself for employment and increase your workplace skills through an optional work placement.

• You’ll be taught by staff who publish and present their work nationally and internationally. Our technical staff are practising artists and will support you in the bespoke photography workshop.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
This course enables you to develop your unique and individual style as a photographer and to create an exceptional body of work over three years. It’ll prepare you for professional employment in the creative industries and/or postgraduate study.

You’ll work in a highly supportive and structured studio setting, exploring and experimenting with new approaches and techniques. You’ll work on vital and diverse project briefs that engage with the professional world.

Our photography technical workshop has been designed to an exceptional specification. Studios are equipped with the latest studio lighting and cameras, tethered shooting and Capture One. We have colour and black & white analogue darkrooms, with dip and dunk film processing, deep tanks and a 50” digital C-Type printer. Alongside our professional industry- standard digital workspaces.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Our graduates have progressed to roles in editorial, studio photography, fashion, documentary, picture editing, styling, archival and web management and roles within the film industry.

– Photographic Production Processes
– Professional Practice
– Dissertation: Research and Reflection

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment is all coursework based (e.g., print portfolios, photo-books, social media including websites, blogs, moving image, research books, essays, exhibitions reviews, artist statements, self-assessment, dissertation).