Click on the link below and have a look at the many undergraduate options at universities across the Uk…

https://digital.ucas.com/coursedisplay/results/providers?searchTerm=photography&destination=Undergraduate&distanceFromPostcode=&studyYear=2020&sort=MostRelevant

Studying photography enhances your creative, social and cultural understanding, while developing your specialist technical knowledge around equipment, techniques and style

Work

Jobs directly related to your degree include:

• Advertising art director
• Film/video editor
• Graphic designer
• Magazine features editor
• Medical illustrator
• Photographer
• Press photographer
• Television camera operator

Jobs where your degree would be useful include:

• Art therapist
• Digital marketer
• Media planner
• Multimedia specialist
• Museum/gallery curator
• Stylist
• VFX artist
• Visual merchandiser
• Web content manager
• Web designer

Study

Studying photography provides you with expertise in sophisticated photography techniques, such as composition, manipulation, editing, processing, colouring and visual effects, as well as practical skills in relevant technologies.

You learn how to curate and exhibit your photography and develop the marketing skills needed to sell and promote it. You also learn about the key legal, ethical and cultural issues around taking, editing and selling photographic images.

The courses also allow you to gain confidence in relationship building between image maker, subject and client.

In addition, you acquire a range of skills that are highly valued by employers. These include:

• critical, analytical and practical problem solving
• risk taking and making use of failure
• rigorous self-evaluation and critical reflection
• organising, planning and time management
• working independently and in collaboration
• presentation
• project management
• literacy and communication through technical descriptions, reports, essays and a dissertation.

Talk

Mr Cole and Mr Toft are more than happy to discuss ideas and future plans with you at any time. Hopefully, we will be able to invite experts from a range of backgrounds to help and show you ways into the creative areas and how to push your career ambitions onto the next level this year!

Also…Mr McKinlay co-ordinates Creative Pathways and can arrange focused placements and internships for you, so have a look here and see what you think…

• https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/creative-pathways/