Photography

Photography at Sheffield Hallam University is a part-time degree that advances your skills, business acumen, and critical understanding as an independent practitioner. It recognises that photography is both a creative practice and a professional discipline, and it aims to develop you across all three dimensions simultaneously, whether you are working towards a career as a fine art photographer, a commercial practitioner, or somewhere in the wide and varied space between the two. The programme includes a foundation year entry route, a sandwich placement year, and embedded work placement experience.

You will deepen your technical proficiency in both analogue and digital photographic processes alongside your conceptual and critical understanding of photography as a medium. The course encourages you to harness your curiosity and creativity across a range of professional contexts, developing a practice that is distinctively your own while building the commercial awareness and professional skills that sustain a working life in photography. The sandwich year and work placement experience give you professional contexts in which to apply your learning and to understand how the photographic industry operates from the inside.

The part-time format makes the degree accessible to students who are developing their practice alongside other commitments, and the foundation year route ensures that students from a wider range of backgrounds can access the programme. Graduates from photography at Sheffield Hallam move into careers as independent photographers across commercial, editorial, documentary, fine art, and fashion contexts, as well as into roles in arts education, gallery work, art direction, image editing, and the wider creative industries. Many build portfolio careers combining photographic practice with other creative and professional activities, and some continue to postgraduate study in photography or fine art.