Are you creative and imaginative? Do you enjoy exploring ideas and looking at things in different ways? If so, you should consider taking the Photography A Level. You will enjoy developing your understanding of the visual world, learning practical skills, and responding to ideas and issues in personal ways. Photography is about looking, learning, thinking and communicating ideas. It inspires creative thinkers. Photography means ‘drawing with light’ and photographers do that when they take a picture. Many photographers have explored various techniques to create images that make a personal statement about things that have interested or concerned them. Photography students can study some of the most important aspects of our society – even in our history, our cultural traditions, ethics and morality, and nature. There is an obvious value in studying these subjects because they can help us better understand our human experience. Studying Photography also develops several marketable professional skills, including critical and creative thinking, research and problem solving, organisation and communication skills. The most exciting aspect of photography is that you are capturing the world as you see it. On the course, you will learn about photographers' work before creatively developing and exploring your own ideas using a range of traditional and digital techniques and processes. You will be expected to demonstrate your skills and knowledge of photography in a sketch pad, leading to an outcome for each unit of work. The A Level is a two-year course which comprises 2 units of work: Unit 3 – Personal Investigation and Unit 4 – Externally set assignment. For the first two terms of the course, students will develop their photography skills in using the camera; contemporary, traditional and alternative photography; digital editing techniques; presentation of work and critical analysis of photographers’ work. They will then choose a theme or topic for their personal investigation unit, which will take a year to complete.