These days, anyone and everyone takes photos. But what is a photo and what is the photographic? How do you ‘think’ through the practice of photography to make artworks? How do you apply photographic thinking to develop artworks even without a camera?

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) challenges students to consider these questions and more as they undergo an immersive experience in contemporary photographic practice and theory. Photography’s history meets the students’ own, as they pursue their own specific questions and attitudes through making. In a studio-based learning environment, independent exploration is encouraged using various techniques, including black-and-white darkroom photography, colour darkroom printing, digital imaging and the projected image in installation. These and many other methods of making enable the discovery of what a photograph can become – and the kind of artist one can be.