Study Guide

Objective

The student
- can identify the practices and genres of documentary photography.
- can take a critical approach to photography and documentary work.
- can work independently within a given framework.
- can draw on the documentary tradition of photography in relation to their own work.
- recognises the serial nature of photography and is able to use this in their own work.
- knows how to use an up-to-date folding program and how to use it to support their own work.

Content

The course introduces students to the tradition and to contemporary documentary photography and applies the knowledge to their own work. Students will produce their own independent work within the given framework.