Master of Fine Arts - Photography

1^st Semester

IIP presents the Master's program with an intensely personal approach, of course, to do a creative and stimulating study through including critical, aesthetical, lens-based practice. Master program based on the practical framework, so students enable to examine, interrogate, and reflect on their nature, role, and psychological sensory towards artist–based – decision making and enhance their chosen practice. Student needs to understand the value of idealization, materialism, and process-based – behaviour and IIP encourage every thinking of diversity. It doesn’t matter where are you coming from and what experience do you have? In this course, major concerns about freakily expressing your ideas and making yourself more diversified in thinking, making, and acknowledging your potential through ideas, thoughts, concepts, themes, exploration, collaborative working, exchanging the ideas,and exploring new and vital concepts.

We believe in making art not judging art. Each thought of the student is highly resonating and encouraging. This course is not for fixedness, it is about Opening Your Personality toward challenging work that vibrates and defined your key concerns in aesthetics, research, stories, and dialogue make.

We do not believe to do argumentation of creative generation or idea pitching, as a student, think that art research is derived from the alternative approaches it employs subjective emergence and interdisciplinary methods. Students must need to take interest in their vision and personal opinions. Photographers can carry out their research-based work in many different ways, but essentially, a body of photographic work is developed through knowledge gained by exploring yourself, society, and the medium (Photography) Itself.

IIP provides you the platform to do artistic research and art-based –practice, this will enable you to shape the way that photography is used and interpreted. Contemporary approaches to a photography show that this is a fast–expanding visual discipline and with an important position within creative, expressive, selfless, emotional, cultural, and social practice.

We welcome applications from those who want to bring about change in the Photography Industry, who want to suggest odd, bad, itchy, and personal thoughts before inspiring from outside of the world.

Subject Name

1. Historical Philosophy in Photography

2. Technical Philosophy in Photography

3. Visual Studies in Photography

4. Practical Project (The student needs to submit 3 Practical Projects before finishing the first semester)

5. Academic Internal Assessment

Learning Output of the Course

Students learn about inventions in Europe, the camera arrived in India with which sense and how did photography play a vital role in visualizing countries and their complex political and social transitions over almost two centuries. We don’t want to learn about numbers and dates, we need to adopt the policy, process, and psychological sense of it by reading Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier Bresson, Sebastiano Salgado, Dayanita Singh, and other iconic photographers. The subject also talks about Cultural Imperialism through photography and British Photographers misused this medium.

2^nd Semester

Subject Name

1. Historical Reading & Theoretical Approaches

2. Photography & Documentation

3. Documentary & Photo Journalism

4. Practical Submission & Viva Voice

Learning Output of the Course

As Henri Cartier Bresson said “A Photograph is neither taken nor seized by force it offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you.” We reconnoiter and clarify this statement through this module. How did photography become a more suitable, useful, and artistic medium before the 1820s to till now, and why do we close our eyes and can recall it, but a camera glance s for a fraction of a second yet retain every detail. This photography capacity into visual art makes (Photography) special and compared to other arts developed over thousands of years, photography is still in its infancy. So, we learn about special.

In this module, the student understands the visual collection of memories, and how can the sentimental and cherished value of documentation played a vital role in photography. From the perspective of an artist, photography shows the world and life in an entirely different dimension. Students observe, select their findings, collect, design, and present the personal aspects of photography. Photo Archive, Re Photography, Photo Book, Handmade Art, and Zine will be the major operational tool of this module. So, students explore the documentation and photography connection and how it is providing a glimpse of common people and the tendency for historiography to emphasize the great feeling of nostalgia. This module is based on experiences that varied widely for people depending on where they live.