- This Industry-focused course equips you with the experience and skills to establish a successful career in the creative industries. - Access to exceptional Photography facilities at our Locksbrook campus. - Engage with industry professionals, many of whom teach onto the course. Fashion Photography at Bath Spa University gives you the space to explore, actively enquire, challenge and define the role of the photographic image in fashion. Alongside the development of your technical skills and understanding of visual language, you will explore the critical and ethical challenges facing Fashion Photography in a contemporary and global context. You will have the opportunity to take part in numerous industry-focused projects to build your skills and experience of working professionally. Our emphasis on professional development exercises equip you with project management experience, knowledge of marketing and promotion, and advanced skills required in pitching for employment and commission. The BA (Hons) Fashion Photography course is designed to develop professional fashion photographers in preparation for successful careers in the creative industries. There are three main components to the course, all of which run in parallel: Identity, Industry, and Context. **Identity:** The initial stages of the course retains a breadth to the curriculum that encompasses a broad knowledge and understanding of photography, fashion, design, collaboration and context, essential for any aspiring Fashion Photographer, we will focus on your personal growth as a practitioner and help you identify your professional aspirations in readiness for employment / self-employment. We place an emphasis on developing and advancing your practical skills and technical knowledge through an increasingly self-initiated, experimental and innovative programme of independent study. **Industry:** The course is designed to ensure that you, as a graduate, can apply your knowledge and skills with innovation and integrity in a professional context. You will, through placement and industry-facing projects, obtain a comprehensive understanding of the changing demands facing the Fashion and Photography industries. Throughout all levels of your study you will engage with industry partners, advance your skills in marketing and networking, become increasingly proficient in presentation and promotion, as well as in project management. **Context:** We place focus on how the development of your increasingly sophisticated photographic portfolio is both critically and contextually understood. You will engage with an in-depth theoretical study of still and moving imagery and the complex roles they both play within historical and contemporary society. An emphasis is placed on the sustainable and ethical responsibilities you have as a globally conscious practitioner. **More about the Professional Placement Year** A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where a student undertakes a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between the students' second and third years of undergraduate study. Students can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) themselves with support from the Careers & Employability Team.

The course starts with an Introduction to Photography skills development. You will gain an understanding of the principles of interpreting images, and the role a camera can play in establishing identity. You will explore digital image production alongside analogue practices in our excellent Photography workshops and will be exposed to the variables at play when photographing on location and shooting within the studio. Embedded within the development of technical skills is a grounding of photographic and fashion movements in a global context. This critical context for your study is established through an Introduction to Visual and Material Culture, Ideology, conceptual, historical, ethical and technical aspects of photographic and fashion practices. You will explore the impact a fashion image can have in various digital or print forms, by analysing the interpretation of images within different contexts. In year 2 you will take part in independently-led research projects with a greater focus on industry collaboration. The course will require you to participate in lectures and seminars that are designed to establish the theoretical grounds in which your developing practice is located. Alongside developing technical and image production skills to industry standard, you will begin to galvanise an understanding of the role your own practice plays within the world and within the fashion fraternity more specifically. Your final year of study requires you to bring together the advancement of your technical and cognitive skills, alongside your gained experience of industry practices into a comprehensive portfolio of photographic work. This independent and innovative body of work will evidence self-initiated problem solving, an in-depth knowledge and understanding of your contemporary and critical awareness and will require you to regularly reassess your practice within cultural and social contexts verbally, practically and in written form. Your study will end with a major professional project in the form of an exhibition.

Assessment is continual throughout the course, the outcomes of which are varied and dependent on the objectives of each module or project. Assessment could take the form of a portfolio of photographic work, an exhibition, an online journal, essay or presentation.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: FP12

Institution code: B20

Campus Name: Main Site

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Student satisfaction : 68%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 84%

EU	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

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Newton Park
Newton St Loe
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Bath
BA2 9BN