MA Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University

MA Photography at Manchester Met is designed for ambitious graduates who want to challenge conventions, develop a distinctive creative practice and explore the possibilities of photography in an increasingly digital and interconnected world. This practice-based masters course encourages you to test, push and extend the boundaries of contemporary photography through experimentation, critical enquiry and hands-on making. You will explore photography as both a creative medium and a research process, developing a deeper understanding of how images influence the way we see, think and engage with the world around us.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities  |  Department: School of Digital Arts (SODA)  |  Duration: Full-time: 1 year; Part-time: 2 years  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

MA Photography is a practice-based course encouraging experimental practice, production and craft, with an emphasis on the medium as a process of enquiry. We understand photography in its widest array of uses and applications, encouraging you to think through its possibilities and consequences, affecting our ways of seeing, thinking and acting. Modules core: Photo Publishing, Co-Creation for Sustainable Futures, Photo Installation, Positions and Propositions, Independent Project.

Career pathways

The course, and wider faculty within which SODA is based, offer excellent links with partners within Manchester, nationally and internationally. It has enabled previous creative graduates to benefit from the incredible opportunities that the city has to offer.

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