Online Masters in Photography 

Introduction

Our masters degree will equip you with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to meaningfully engage with a technologically- and socially-evolving medium. It will help you succeed within the increasingly complex and competitive creative industries.

The course brings together talented practitioners on an international scale who have the ambition the ambition to succeed, innovate, and lead. It allows for the dynamic cross-pollination of approaches in photography and the exploration of critical perspectives.

You will also have an individual, or group of, sophisticated projects of a publishable standard. You can use these as the foundation to take you to the next stage in your career and sustain your practice beyond.

Through your time on the course, you will:

• Gain valuable insights which you can immediately apply to your work by sharing your approaches to photography and collaboratively exploring critical perspectives
• Become an inquisitive, innovative, and outward-looking professional practitioner
• Be able to embrace multi-disciplined approaches to your work
• Confidently collaborate with other professional practitioners on a global scale

• Inspire others and take leading roles within the arts sector and creative industries on an international level

On successful completion of this course, you will have an internationally recognised postgraduate qualification.

This MA is designed to enhance the creative, critical, and professional skills of practitioners regardless of where they are in their careers. If you’re just starting out in the industry, the course will help you realise and develop the unique offering that you bring to the arena. You’ll learn how to navigate professional relationships and forge valuable connections both locally and internationally.

"I'm […] very grateful for the diverse backgrounds of my tutors and the references mentioned in the modules, this has opened my eyes to wider range of practices, approaches and methodologies in photography." - Rehab Eldalil, MA Photography student

If you’ve already established yourself within the professional world, the course will allow you to interrogate your practice. You can expect to explore different materials and techniques – discovering new ways to elevate the quality of your output and excel within your specialism. Graduates of the MA can then go on to work professionally in their field of expertise. Such areas include travel, fashion, corporate, and editorial, to name just a few.

Of course, your degree can also help secure other roles that would benefit from your skill set. Some examples include working as an advertising art director, a gallery curator, a web designer or a VXF artist.

"The Falmouth MA certainly gave me new confidence as a photographer. […] The album I published as my final project at Falmouth entitled ‘ECOSYSTEMS: Complexity, Diversity and Nature’s Contribution to Humanity’ has been quite a success. [It] was launched at the 50th anniversary conference of the Club of Rome and was presented at the British Pavilion at the UN Climate Conference in Katowice and later at the UN World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi." - Stanislev Shmelev, MA Photography graduate

Careers and employability service

In addition to the guidance offered by our tutors, you can also access our RealWORKS, our careers and employability service throughout your studies, and for up to 5 years following graduation.

Our expert team will help you identify potential opportunities in the UK or internationally, prepare for job interviews, advise you on starting up your own business, and more. 

Not ready for a masters yet?

If you don’t know if you’re fully equipped to make the most of our rigorous masters-level study, we can help. Get in touch with one of our course advisors to see whether joining our BA(Hons) Photography (Top-Up) course prior to progressing to the MA would be more beneficial.

Studying on our Top-Up will allow us to work with you to ensure you have the best chance of getting a good degree result, which in turn will lead to a guaranteed offer and place on the MA. Please contact us for more information on +44 (0)1223 447713.

You should have:

An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification.

If your first language is not English, you'll need to take one of the following tests to verify your proficiency:

• IELTS - minimum overall score of IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
• TOEFL iBT (online test) - minimum of 88 overall and at least 21 in all 4 components
• LanguageCert (online test) - a High Pass from the ESOL B2 Communicator test in reading, writing, speaking and listening (2 parts)

We also accept a range of equivalent recognised English language qualifications. Candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.

For more information regarding equivalent international qualifications and Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) please call us on +44 (0)1223 447713 or view our handy guide:

Before you apply 

Before you submit your application, please contact one of our course advisors so they can guide you through the process and ensure you submit the best application possible for entry into the course. 

Call us on  +44 (0)1223 447713.

Application steps 

Application steps:  

1. Submit an online application form.

2. Submit a copy of your first degree certificate or Level 6 equivalent qualification and your IELTS/TOEFL certificate if English is not your first language.

3. Submit a digital portfolio of your current photographic practice. The portfolio should indicate both your technical aptitude and the quality and sophistication of your practice. You shouldn’t attempt to encompass a range of styles and genres of photography, but rather try to give the admissions team a sense of your practice specialisms and your interests as a practitioner. You should title or briefly caption each image in your portfolio, explaining - if necessary - how the image is indicative of your practice and why you have selected it.

Late applications may be considered if places are available.

For free advice, please contact our friendly and knowledgeable course advisors on +44 (0)1223 447713.