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Photography Program in Germany
Students will return from this program with a deeper understanding of art, beauty, architecture, history, culture and photography of Eastern Germany. Visits to companies, galleries and museums as well as cities and sites will expose them to the major changes of the city of Berlin & Eastern Germany have gone through in the past decades: the downfall of the Berlin wall, the DDR and Berlin, becoming Germany’s capital again in the 1990s.

Location(s): Germany
Duration: 14 days

If you are creative, innovative, and have a keen eye for color, detail, and symmetry, photography may be the career for you. A degree in photography allows you to pursue a myriad of professional options. Flip open any magazine or browse any website and you can’t help but notice that quality photography is in high demand.

At Andrews University, you’ll choose from two main career paths – Fine Arts Photography and Commercial Photography. The fine arts photography program focuses on education and the development of personal creativity. Our fine arts photography program will prepare you to teach, become a freelance artist, or work in a variety of positions at independent studios, museums, or galleries. Designed to enable you to acquire a mix of technical and creative photography skills, the Commercial Photography program will teach you how to apply traditional craft-based skills and new digital technologies in the industry. Either way, you’re sure to embark upon a challenging and rewarding career.

Admission Requirements

Admission to the B.F.A. program is based on an interview and portfolio examination by the Fine Arts Department. The portfolio is to be presented in person or mailed along with a statement of intent as stipulated by the department and should contain examples of work that the candidate believes best display his or her abilities.

Students are expected to assume the costs of materials they use in their courses. All studio courses may have an additional charge for materials used in class.
Career Information

Fine arts students become professional artists in their major (painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture). Some also may pursue commercial work in related vocations requiring their expertise, such as advertising, photography, photojournalism, art printing, pattern and model making, illustration, and restoration. Graduates have been hired as artists, graphic artists, photographers, illustrators, printers, directors, managers, and professors. Typical hiring firms include museums, public and cultural agencies, advertising agencies, galleries, businesses, universities.

Photographic images are central in our culture. The presence and impact of photography is evident in contemporary art practice, as can be seen by the quality and volume of photography exhibited in galleries and museums, as well as in new web-based art forums. The level of technical and conceptual sophistication in the photography and digital imaging programs at Tyler exposes the student to many career opportunities.

Dear Photography Area Tyler Alumni,

It is an exciting and busy time for us at Tyler! The move to the new building on Temple’s Main Campus is upon us, and with it comes the promise of a new era for the future of the school. After so many years of planning for this move, we finally have occupancy of the new facility.

We want to mark this momentous time with a final celebratory event, a postcard exhibition and a closing reception, that says goodbye to our Elkins Park Campus and hello to the new Tyler.

We invite you to be a part of this exhibition by sending a postcard sized image of your work, to be received no later than December 1, 2008. These postcard images will be for sale at a set price of $25.00 during the closing on Friday, December 12, 2008, first come first choice. At 8 pm, you can take any image which you purchase during the reception off of the wall to add to your art collection. All proceeds from the sale of work will be donated to the Photography area and its new space. Please rsvp if you will be able to attend on the 12th.

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