Art and Design (Photography)

Course summary

Our photography course is designed to allow your creativity to flourish while exploring personally selected themes. This can span across fashion, portraiture, landscape, the built environment, surface pattern, and texture: there is no end to the possible areas you can explore. Studying this subject as an A-level will provide you with the technical understanding of its value in contemporary society and culture. What will I study? After experiencing a range of practical workshops, each individual’s self-written project is tailored to incorporate personal ideas and interests and is devised with a specialist tutor in a supportive and enriching environment. Tutors have industry experience and design backgrounds allowing you to access to a wealth of knowledge. You will be introduced to a range of technical aspects, including traditional darkroom practice, studio lighting, shutter speeds, apertures, and Adobe Photoshop. You will visualise your work in a digital portfolio to show your creative and technical development which will certainly lead to a body of work you can be proud of. Where could it take me? A popular route to university or the workplace for our A-level students is via our thriving Art Foundation course. Many prestigious art institutions require students to have completed Art Foundation. In recent years students have progressed to photography-related courses at Camberwell, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Falmouth, Nottingham, Bournemouth, MMU, and UCLAN. Photographers create visual images for an exceptional range of creative, technical and documentary purposes within industries such as fashion, advertising, photojournalism, and social photography.