With hundreds of avenues available in professional photography, finding the appropriate training and experience is crucial in helping you land a job behind the lens.

Bachelor of Photography

This program gives you the skills to turn your interest in photography into a career. With a key focus on developing your conceptual skills, the Bachelor of Photography also provides in-depth knowledge of the materials, processes, equipment and techniques involved in professional photographic practice.

You will explore the interrelationship of photography and other forms of visual communication, and develop the ability to recognise and produce meaningful visual statements.

Comprising closely related practical studio areas, supported by appropriate visual arts theory, communication or business studies, the program provides specialised studies in practices, politics, philosophies and ethics in a choice of three majors.

With hundreds of avenues available in professional photography, finding the appropriate training and experience is crucial in helping you land a job behind the lens.

Majors include:

• Creative Advertising Photography
• Photographic Art Practice
• Photojournalism

In year 1, your studies combine photographic courses, studio practice and art theory.

Along with developing an understanding of the politics and philosophies that underpin photography, you will receive a thorough grounding in the practice of
photography and in developing your conceptual and craft skills.

In Years 2 and 3, you will concentrate on your major.

Queensland College of Art

Over the past 125 years, Queensland College of Art has brought together some of the finest practitioners and academics in visual art and design.

It has produced thousands of professional artists, designers, photographers and film-makers who have helped shape art and design culture in Queensland, Australia and internationally.

Located in Brisbane’s cultural precinct, Griffith’s South Bank campus is home to students at the Queensland College of Art. Multi-million dollar facilities provide outstanding teaching studios, exhibitions spaces, libraries and lecture rooms.

Career opportunities

With a keen appreciation of the politics and philosophies underpinning the photographic discipline and a demonstrated eagerness to work innovatively in your chosen specialisation.

You will be capable of working at a professional level in the demanding, but rewarding fields of advertising photography, photographic art practice or
photojournalism, where opportunities can be found across the world.

A number of QCA’s Photojournalism graduates now work for leading newspapers and international news agencies like:

• Getty Images (London)
• Reuters (Singapore)
• The Australian Newspaper (Brisbane)
• Emirates Today (Dubai)

Some graduates of the Photographic Art Practice specialisation have gone on to work as practising artists, work in galleries, or do additional education and become teachers:

• Assistant Professor, East Carolina University (North Carolina, USA)
• Visual Arts Coordinator, Brisbane Powerhouse
• Centre for the Arts (Brisbane)
• Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast (Queensland)
• Director, Queensland Centre for Photography (Brisbane)

Graduates from the Creative Advertising Photography and Commercial Photography majors have gone on to work as assistants or open their own studios:

• Red Brick Studios (Brisbane)
• Pure Media (Brisbane)
• Fotograf Matti Bernitz (Norway)
• Momentum Studios (Brisbane)

Gemma-Rose Turnbull looks back on her time at QCA as one of amazing opportunities. During her Honours year, Gemma-Rose edited the photojournalism department’s Australian Photo Journalist magazine, and travelled to Vietnam
with former war photographer and Adjunct Professor Tim Page to work as an assistant photography tutor for a Vietnamese workshop on photojournalism.

“What I found most helpful about my studies at QCA, aside from all the technical stuff, had a lot to do with the emphasis on thinking about how to take photos, and looking at photojournalism as a way to tell stories without words,” Gemma-Rose said.

“The photography staff are fabulous and come from such a wide variety of backgrounds. In my last two years I worked very closely with two lecturers, one who had a strong background in news photography and the other in social documentary photography. In my work, I like to do storytelling and documentary photography but I’m also able to work in the news environment.”

Gemma-Rose said QCA prepared students very well for the workplace.

“You’re never going to know what work is like until you do it but staff played a strong role in preparing us for the realities of the work environment. We also had a lot of lectures from industry professionals.”

Gemma-Rose Turnbull is the 2005 winner of the Queensland Arts Council photographer for a Year Scholarship Award.

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