BFA in Photography
What makes the Photography degree program at UArts special?
Our internationally recognized program will guide you to become a successful photographer. In addition to increasing your creativity and inventiveness, you’ll build a solid technical competency in traditional and digital image-making. Students studying for a degree in Photography at UArts will benefit from:
• Superb digital and traditional darkroom-based, and alternative processing facilities
• The Paradigm lecture series featuring prominent photographers and artists
• Two department-run photo galleries featuring work by renowned photographers
• Field trips to New York each semester
• An extensive internship program that provides invaluable professional experience
• Dedicated and involved faculty, who work closely with students
• Our location in Philadelphia, one of the strongest photography communities in the country, with a very active art scene
What kind of Photography facilities will I have access to?
Students learn in advanced photo labs and show their work in various on-campus galleries. Facilities also include:
• Four photography shooting studios.
• Four state-of-the-art black and white darkrooms with 55 Beseler 4x5 enlargers
• Color darkroom with 14 individual stations with Beseler 4x5 enlargers, and a 32-inch Colex RA-4 color processor
• Dedicated Apple G5 Digital Imaging Lab, with 16 G5 systems, with dual LCD displays, scanners at every station, and a variety of input and output devices
• A well-equipped Equipment Room with professional industry-standard equipment
What careers are available to photography majors?
Our alumni work in fashion, documentary, photojournalism, fine art, commercial, studio work, architectural photography, editorial, and advertising photography. Some choose to work in gallery management, art direction, photo editing, and advertising.
Are the faculty members practicing photographers?
The photo faculty members are successful working and teaching professionals, including: editorial photographers whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Aperture, Fortune, Esquire, and Time; fine-art photographers with work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The National Museum of Art at the Smithsonian, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among others.
Our internationally recognized program will guide you to become a successful photographer. In addition to increasing your creativity and inventiveness, you’ll build a solid technical competency in traditional and digital image-making. Students studying for a degree in Photography at UArts will benefit from:
• Superb digital and traditional darkroom-based, and alternative processing facilities
• The Paradigm lecture series featuring prominent photographers and artists
• Two department-run photo galleries featuring work by renowned photographers
• Field trips to New York each semester
• An extensive internship program that provides invaluable professional experience
• Dedicated and involved faculty, who work closely with students
• Our location in Philadelphia, one of the strongest photography communities in the country, with a very active art scene
What kind of Photography facilities will I have access to?
Students learn in advanced photo labs and show their work in various on-campus galleries. Facilities also include:
• Four photography shooting studios.
• Four state-of-the-art black and white darkrooms with 55 Beseler 4x5 enlargers
• Color darkroom with 14 individual stations with Beseler 4x5 enlargers, and a 32-inch Colex RA-4 color processor
• Dedicated Apple G5 Digital Imaging Lab, with 16 G5 systems, with dual LCD displays, scanners at every station, and a variety of input and output devices
• A well-equipped Equipment Room with professional industry-standard equipment
What careers are available to photography majors?
Our alumni work in fashion, documentary, photojournalism, fine art, commercial, studio work, architectural photography, editorial, and advertising photography. Some choose to work in gallery management, art direction, photo editing, and advertising.
Are the faculty members practicing photographers?
The photo faculty members are successful working and teaching professionals, including: editorial photographers whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Aperture, Fortune, Esquire, and Time; fine-art photographers with work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The National Museum of Art at the Smithsonian, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among others.
Our dogma is that we have no dogma, and a diverse faculty insures that we can support the path our students choose to take. We encourage students to self-define what they wish their final photographic work and portfolio to be, and faculty work to assist in that endeavor."
UArts location, facilities, faculty and curriculum ensure photography students are prepared for their careers.
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