By providing you with a solid foundation in photographic theory and practice, this photography course will offer you the opportunity to take risks, explore ideas and realise your creative potential. This photography degree course aims to create flexible, resourceful, and creative photographers with well-developed transferable skills, that can be applied to a broad range of commercial, and art-based careers.

You will work with industry-standard equipment and studios to support you from image capture through to exhibition. You will learn to apply a range of practical contemporary photographic and digital skills to explore the creative and intellectual potential of existing, experimental, and digital photographic techniques and their application within the creative arts and media industries.

Some of the career routes that photography graduates go on to include, archivists, art directors, curators, digital artists, exhibiting photographers, freelancers, picture researchers, printers, retouchers, studio managers, teachers, videographers. You will also have the potential to move across into related careers in marketing, branding, technical support, and PR.

You’ll open the door to a number of careers with a photography degree. Career paths available to you include becoming an exhibiting photographer, digital artist, art director, arts administrator, picture researcher, or studio manager, as well as the potential for running your own practice.

Thanks to the transferrable skills you learn during your time studying a photography degree at University of Salford, you could also move into a related field, such as marketing, branding, project management, technical support or PR.