Photography 1: People and Place

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Level:: 1 (HE4)
Credits:: 40
Length:: 12 months approx.
8hrs per week
Cost:: £625
payment options

Course Overview

Core Requirement for BA Hons Photography
Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts

One of the key purposes of this course is to stretch your photographic skills in terms of the subject material you choose. Specifically, to broaden the range of your work by tackling subjects that include people. It is suitable for anyone wishing to develop their photographic practice and gain an understanding of particular challenges of portraying human subjects and their environment.

A second key purpose of this course is to start you thinking in terms of photographic assignments; Photographs to order, in other words. There is a considerable difference between photographing at leisure and photographing to deliver a particular result that you have promised in advance.

The assignment ethos in photography involves planning and preparation, thinking in advance about what and how to shoot, with constant reviews of the progress as the shoot continues. The deadline itself establishes a cut-off point, and just by existing neatly circumvents a common creative issue — when to stop and say that the work is finished.

If you want to study this course as part of a photography degree, click here: BA Hons Photography Degree.

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The Freeman View

Visit the blog of OCA's Photography course author Michael Freeman.
The Freeman View

People — aware
People — unaware
Buildings and spaces
People interacting with place
People and place, on assignment

To develop photographic practice and gain an understanding of particular challenges of portraying human subjects and their environment.
To explore the meanings of portraiture and landscape photography and the nature of genre.
To develop assignment skills necessary for professional practice.

A number of projects and five major assignments. Students also maintain a learning log.