The master is divided into four fundamental moments: frontal teaching, residencies, internship, thesis.
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In the first phase of teaching, authors and professionals who work in the publishing, curatorial and academic sectors guide students in the theoretical training path. Students measure themselves with the most important elements of the grammar of photographic language, such as the correct use of shooting equipment, the various analog and digital technical equipment, post-production and image processing.
Dealing with photography today also means knowing how to manage all the phases of its process, from the initial idea to the creation of exhibitions or publications of photographic books, through collaboration with figures such as the curator, the publisher, the graphic designer, the post-producer, the photolithist, the printer or the typographer. The lessons in graphics and editorial curation are aimed at these phases, in order to encourage the autonomy of the students, who at the end of the training course will be able to use multiple languages and techniques of production and presentation that are indispensable today in the practice of the profession of photographer.
The second phase is divided into a series of workshops, exploring different approaches to photographic language, in order to carry out collaborative and shared research between students and guest teachers. The key concepts necessary for the development of individual projects and the thesis are also defined through the analysis of the works carried out, examining from a technical, theoretical and practical point of view the conception, the realization and the completion of the various works. The workshops have the peculiarity of declining from time to time and from year to year in ever new projects that arise from the authorial peculiarity of the teacher in charge. The student will find himself faced with very different work flows and project briefs, so as to be able to know not a single photography school but the multiplicity of possible positions within the photographic world.
During the third phase of the Master, participants undertake a period of curricular internship at institutions, professional studios, museums, photographic archives, independent entities, in Italy and abroad. This training moment offers students the opportunity to directly interact with different contexts of production and communication of the photographic medium and to operate within a network of international professionals, photographic studios, curators and publishers active in the varied panorama of contemporary photography. For the complete list of internships carried out in previous editions, see the internships section.
IUAV University offers the opportunity to carry out an internship abroad thanks to the Erasmus+ Traineeship, program, benefiting from a scholarship. In previous years, several internships have been made possible thanks to this resource.
In the final phase of the Master, participants must complete an individual project: the project can start from the research paths developed during the residencies or from a new personal concept. Periodic review meetings with tutors and teachers responsible for the project’s progress are planned in the months preceding the discussion. The final thesis is designed and structured in the form of a paper book and is presented during the degree discussion and the end-of-course exhibition. To view the projects created in previous editions, see the projects section.
A detailed calendar will be sent to selected participants in January 2024. More info will be shared through fall 2023 on our Instagram page.
