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The photography department emphasizes the use of the photographic medium as an artistic tool. While some courses address commercial issues, the thrust of the department is toward producing visual artists who use photography as a primary means of expression. A variety of formats are integrated within a curriculum that includes experimental, narrative, and documentary approaches to the medium. Students are trained in B&W and color wet processes, studio practices, digital technologies and a variety of historical techniques. A senior exhibition marks the culmination of the program of study.

The photography department is housed in Taub Hall and the Renée Samuels Center and supports two multiple-station, black-and-white darkrooms equipped with Beseler 23CII and 45M enlargers, a color lab that includes a Colenta color print processor and Beseler and Durst 4×5 enlargers, film loading and processing rooms, and a finishing area for mounting, matting, and storage. The department maintains a shooting studio outfitted with overhead quartz, fluorescent, and strobe lighting systems, backdrops and assorted camera supports. The studio also contains a 4×5 view camera with a Leaf Aptus digital back and an 8×10 film camera. In addition, there is a large number of 4×5 view camera kits available for individual student use. The department includes a state of the art digital lab equipped with Apple Macintosh computers and a variety of scanners, printers, and digital cameras.

Continuing a tradition of leadership in photographic education, the program in Photography at Indiana University offers an opportunity for talented and committed individuals to advance their photographic work in an envirnoment of intensive interaction with a select group of peers. The study in Photography balances a central insight and verbal articulation. The program goes about these objectives in a combination of ways. Graduate students are given fully furnished individual darkrooms in the recently remodeled Photography area. The Photography program is supplemented by a series of visiting artists. In the past few years, Jonathan Green, Joel-Peter Witkin, Emmet Gowin, Tony Medoza, Bea Nettles, Jerry Uelsmann, Carrie Mae Weems, Andres Serrano, and Manual among others, have worked with graduate students.

How will the Studio Photography minor enhance my degree?
This minor is designed to give you mastery of the full range of camera formats – from a 35mm format up to a 4×5 studio view camera, including digital capture.

What technical training in Studio Photography is covered?
• Electronic flash, quartz qalogen studio lighting
• Digital capture, color, and black-and-white films
• Color photographic print materials and techniques
• A full year of studio photography, with use of various light shaping tools and techniques, digital and traditional capture, coupled with introductory courses in photography
• A high level of technical achievement and competency with professional tools

What does the coursework cover?
Studio courses are technically rigorous, with extensive use of professional photographic tools and equipment. Advanced-level classes concentrate on design and creative approaches to staged and directed shooting.

What kind of facilities will I have access to?
You’ll learn in one of the best-equipped facilities in the county. Facilities also include:
• Dedicated photography shooting studios
• Four state-of-the-art black-and-white darkrooms (with 55 Beseler 4×5 enlargers)
• Color darkroom (with 14 individual stations with Beseler 4×5 enlargers and a 32-inch Colex RA-4 color processor)
• Dedicated Apple G5 Digital Imaging Lab (with 16 G5 systems, with dual LCD displays, scanners at every station, and a variety of input and output devices)
• A well-equipped Equipment Room, featuring a wide variety of professional industry-standard equipment available for checkout by students

What makes the Photography degree program at UArts special?
Our internationally recognized program will guide you to become a successful photographer. In addition to increasing your creativity and inventiveness, you’ll build a solid technical competency in traditional and digital image-making. Students studying for a degree in Photography at UArts will benefit from:
• Superb digital and traditional darkroom-based, and alternative processing facilities
• The Paradigm lecture series featuring prominent photographers and artists
• Two department-run photo galleries featuring work by renowned photographers
• Field trips to New York each semester
• An extensive internship program that provides invaluable professional experience
• Dedicated and involved faculty, who work closely with students
• Our location in Philadelphia, one of the strongest photography communities in the country, with a very active art scene

What kind of Photography facilities will I have access to?
Students learn in advanced photo labs and show their work in various on-campus galleries. Facilities also include:
• Four photography shooting studios
• Four state-of-the-art black and white darkrooms with 55 Beseler 4×5 enlargers
• Color darkroom with 14 individual stations with Beseler 4×5 enlargers, and a 32-inch Colex RA-4 color processor
• Two dedicated Apple G5 Digital Imaging Labs, with G5 systems, with dual LCD displays, scanners at every station, and a variety of input and output devices
• A well-equipped Equipment Room with professional industry-standard equipment

What careers are available to photography majors?
Our alumni work in fashion, documentary, photojournalism, fine art, commercial, studio work, architectural photography, editorial, and advertising photography. Some choose to work in gallery management, art direction, photo editing, and advertising.

This page provides further details about the BA (Hons) Documentary Photography, Newport School of Art Media and Design.

Photographer Magdalena Turner, 2008
Student quotes

“What I appreciate most is the energy and depth in the critical debate which takes place in and around lectures, tutorials and the darkrooms.”

“I looked at courses at several universities but was told that if I was serious about studying documentary photography I had to come to Newport. From the moment I came through the gates and from the warm reception I was given I knew this was the place I had to come to study. I felt at home here – the landscape really reminds me of New Zealand.”

Specialization Description

The nature of photography has changed drastically in the last five years. Digital photography has been the cause, and it continues to change at an amazing pace. Virtually all news gathering organizations have changed from conventional to digital formats. Many professional photographers have also made the change. Telephones are now being marketed with built-in cameras to send digital images as well as voice messages. New models of digital cameras are being introduced every month that offer higher quality and lower price than the previous month. Crude image manipulation programs are bundled in the software packages on new computers. More powerful image manipulation programs have become available at reasonable prices. Image scanners and high-resolution photo printers are almost giveaway items. Digital photography will replace conventional as the norm in the near future.

UW-Stout’s specialization in Digital Photography emphasizes the digital aspect of photography to serve both on-campus students and the needs for continuing professional education.

With elimination of wet darkrooms associated with conventional photography, many organizations are doing photography in-house with existing electronic systems. People need to be trained in this new technology as part of their continuing professional education. Digital photography is marketed as being foolproof, but the task of obtaining, manipulating, and presenting quality images remains daunting.

With the addition of digital photography to your professional preparation, you will gain an important competitive edge you would expect from a UW-Stout degree.

Due to the demanding nature of the laboratory photography courses, it may be inadvisable for students to take more than two laboratory courses in the same semester.

Photography majors usually own or have access to a manually adjustable 35mm single-lens reflex camera and hand-held light meter. Most students will want cameras equipped with normal, wide-angle, and telephoto lens by the time they enroll in Pho 112. Students must supply their own film, photographic paper, and other materials. With the accelerating move towards digital photography in the profession, it is increasingly advisable that Photography students own a good quality digital camera. Students are advised to ask the Photography faculty for guidance in selecting any digital equipment. The University has well-equipped darkrooms and studios and provides a limited amount of other equipment for use by students.

Transfer of credit for Photography courses taken at other institutions may be granted by the University as credit for semester hours; however, transfer students wishing to register for Photography courses more advanced than Pho 111 must consult with the Photography faculty unless transferring from an approved two-plus-two program. Permission to enroll in courses more advanced than Pho 111 will be granted only upon the evaluation of a portfolio of the student’s photographs by one or more members of the photography faculty. This evaluation must take place prior to or during the registration period for the student’s first semester at A&M-Commerce. Substitutions for course requirements may be made only with the approval of the department head. Majors must earn a grade of “C” or better in all Photography courses counted towards degree requirements.

The goal of FIT’s Photography Department is to instill in its students a solid foundation of photographic knowledge and experience to enable them to move on to satisfying careers. FIT students graduate with more than a diploma; they leave with a portfolio of work that meet the highest professional standards, thanks to the department’s extensive real-world commercial project assignments.

Successful commercial photographers are able to tell a story and much more, creating eye-catching images that effectively communicate a mood, a mindset, or a message. In the fields of advertising, communications, fine arts, fashion, and publishing, talented and professionally trained photographers are highly valued and much in demand today.

PHOTOGRAPHY FACILITIES:
TRADITION AND TECHNOLOGY

When it comes to transforming a vision into a finished product, today’s photographers have many exciting new tools at their disposal. FIT’s Photography program emphasizes proficiency in new digital technologies enabling students to do things previously thought impossible. All of FIT’s photography facilities are professionally equipped, including large, fully-furnished photography studios in the Art and Design Center, and darkrooms that accommodate more than 40 people to service students’ in-house printing and processing needs.

NON-CREDIT OFFERINGS

In addition to its credit curriculum, the Photography Department also plays host to a number of special courses, including a series of non-credit courses for professional and novice photographers. Through the Office for Professional Training, they offer a popular series of non-credit seminars each focusing on specific topics such as food photography, location fashion photography, and web design. There are also a variety of free seminars, lectures, and workshops specifically for high school teachers, and yearly seminars for high school students on how to prepare a portfolio.