Photography A level (A2468 - SA059)

By exploring themes such as ‘Light’, ‘Capturing the Moment’ and ‘The Truth’, this course will teach you digital and traditional darkroom photography skills, how to express yourself and communicate ideas through photographs and how to understand different layers of meaning in images.

As part of the course, you will visit galleries and exhibitions – locally and in London. These have included The Tate Modern, The Haywood Gallery, The Victoria & Albert, The Royal Academy, The Photographers’ Gallery, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Sainsbury Centre in Norfolk and the Norwich Castle Museum.

Each year there is also a visual arts trip abroad to a city renowned for its artistic heritage. Recent destinations have included Amsterdam, Paris and New York.

Each year there is an annual Visual Arts Show, where Art, Photography and Textiles students show their best work in a gallery-style environment, open to the public.

To succeed you will need curiosity, independence and initiative, and have an eye for a good picture. You will be willing to develop ideas and to investigate and analyse images and you will be persistent and hardworking.

The course is taught in a well-equipped, specialist room, with PCs and printers for your digital work and access to a large, well equipped traditional darkroom. We provide the essential materials for the course, including digital SLR cameras though it may be a benefit if you have your own.

Photography can be taken with any subjects, but students often choose to combine it with other visual disciplines such as; Art, Film Studies or Media Studies.