MA Photography: Enrolment Information
This page - and the resources included - will help you prepare for enrolment.
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Welcome to MA Photography at HCA
Course Information
Key reading list (we will refer to these texts in Reading Group sessions):
Practice Lead Research:
- Barrett, E. and Barbara Bolt, 2010, Practice as research: approaches to creative arts enquiry, I.B. Taurus. London.
- Read, S. and Mike Simmons, 2017, Photographers and Research: the role of research in contemporary photographic practice, Focal Press. New York.
- Smith, H and Roger Dean, 2009, Research-led Practice in the creative arts, Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh.
Photographic Practice and Theory:
- C. F. Cabrera and A. Soth, 2020, The Parameters of Our Cage, Mack Books. New York.
- Barthes, R., 2000 (1981), Camera Lucida, Vintage. London.
Batchen, G. (ed.), 2011, Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, MIT press. Cambridge, Mass. - Bate. D., 2015, Art Photography, Tate publications. London.
- Benjamin, W. (trans. E. Leslie), 2015, On Photography, Reaktion books. London
- Burbridge, B. and Pollen, A., 2018, Photography Reframed, new visions in contemporary photographic culture, I.B. Taurus. London.
- Campany, D., 2003, Art and Photography, Phaidon. London.
- Durden, M., 2012, Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge. London.
- Fried, M., 2010, Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before, Yale University Press. New York.
- Hirsch. M., 1999, Family Frames, Photography, Narrative and Postmemory, Harvard University Press. Harvard.
Other recommended sources:
- 1000 Words (online magazine: http://www.1000wordsmag.com
- Seesaw (online magazine): https://www.seesawmagazine.com
- Aperture: https://aperture.org/shop/magazine
- British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com
- Source Photographic Review: http://www.source.ie/index.php
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MA Students: Fees & Funding
Enrolment timetable
| Time | |
|---|---|
| Course | Thursday 24th Sept 2026 |
| Year | |
| Level | |
| Mode of Study |
| Time | 10.30am |
|---|---|
| Course | MA Photography |
| Year | 1 of 1 |
| Level | 7 |
| Mode of Study | FT |
Enrolment Checklist
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