Masters in Fine Arts - Photography

MASTERS IN FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHY

The MFA in Photography program, students explore digital Photography through practice-based and process-oriented research. At the intersection of visual phenomena, social documentary, new media, critical studies, and creative production, the program offers a unique blend of studio practice, and theoretical and art historical training.

Pioneering, process-oriented,
cutting edge, new age visual
storytelling

COURSE OVERVIEW

Four Semester Breakdown – 2 Year Programme

State-of-the-Art Facilities:

Indian Institute of Photography boasts the best equipment and facilities offered by any Photography school. This includes state-of-the-art cameras, lighting and other studio equipment, digital darkrooms/ digital imaging a variety of equipment accessories, and specialized working studios.

The wide range of equipment and resources available to the student of Photography at Indian Institute of Photography reflects the breadth of the curriculum that includes traditional photography and digital photography technology.

Professional Faculty:

The School of Photography links students with mentors who are the photographers and academics in their field. We offer a prestigious faculty, legendary guest faculty.

Industry Relationships:

Every semester, students benefit from lectures and artist presentations from top photographers from India and South Asia, and the school helps students find internships with the top photographers in the field. In addition, many classes feature visits to leading photography studios

COURSE HIGHLIGHT

University / Institution	IIP Academy
Program Name	Masters in Fine Arts - Photography
Website	www.iipacademy.edu.in
Eligibility	BFA Fine Arts (Painting/ Photography/Applied Arts/ Sculpture/ Graphics) - 4 Year Degree Course Or B.A. with Fine Arts (Drawing & Painting / Commercial Arts) - 3 Year Degree Course Or B. Design Course – 4 Year Degree Course in various Disciplines Or B. Architecture – 4 Year Degree Course in Architecture Or Graduation + knowledge of photography
Course Duration	2 Years (4 semesters)
Maximum Seats	8 Seats in regular batch 8 seats in hybrid batch (online/regular)
Class Days & Batch Timings	Regular batch: Monday to Friday 10.30 am onwards Hybrid batch: Online classes on Weekends and Regular sessions and practicals on Monday to Friday.

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. So, who believed in themselves and want to a revolution in the field of LENS – BASED – PRACTICE, RESEARCH ON PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH, INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE, DOCUMENTARY, STORYTELLING, WRITING, TEACHING, ARCHIVING, CURATION, AND THEME – BASED PHOTOGRAPHY?

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 Zion 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.

3^rd Semester

Subject Name

1. Documentary & Photo – Journalism – II

2. Photography Discourse

3. Dissertation – 1 (Students will start to make their dissertation which they need to submit in their 4 th semester.)

4. Practical – 1 (Students will divide their Final Projects into 2 Major and 1 Minor Project OR 1 Major and 2 Minor Projects and Start to work on them.)

Learning Output of the Course

This module is the most creative and allows students through reading, write, and systematic structuring of the Art-Based – Research Steps. Students will learn about Dissertations, Research Writing,Research methods and Methodologies, Publication, and How to approach their work for funding programs. Students will connect with their mentors so They start to make their portfolio,clarify their vision, generate their final project, and understand the Road Map and Writing of Artistic Statement.

4^th Semester

Subject Name

1. Dissertation – 2

In this module, students submit their dissertations.

2. Viva Voice

Students will sit together with external faculties and their psychological testing will be done.

3. Final Project – 2

Students will submit their Final Projects.

4. Exhibition

This is not a module or subject. It is the celebration of time which proves this diversification of whole 2 years. Students will do an exhibition in this module.

Studio Practice

The foundation of the program, studio practice is a seminar in which students integrate what they are experiencing and learning into their own creative work. Through ongoing studio assignments, group critiques, and one-on-one meetings with faculty, students develop their photographic work and define a personal approach to their practice. A final exhibition of original work, presented at the end of the second year, is required for graduation.

Critical Study

In these topical seminars, students focus on theoretical and critical issues in the history of photography. Working with historians, photographers, and Indian Institute of Photography curatorial staff, students engage in research, writing, and curatorial activities. Students' own writing charts the development of their ideas about photography in relation to the work of other photographers. A written thesis, which serves as an anthology of two years of critical coursework and professional practice, is required for graduation.

Professional Practice

Internships are an integral part of the program, enabling students to gain practical exposure to various aspects of the field. First-year students are required to intern for individual photographers/artists. Second year students are required to intern with photographic and media- based organizations, such as museums, photo agencies, and magazines. All students are expected to report on their internship in classroom discussions and to record these experiences as part of their final written thesis.

Fee Details

Total course Fee Rs. 5,10,000/-

Registration fee	Rs.50,000/-
1^st Semester	Rs. 1,40,000/-
2^nd semester	Rs. 90,000/-
3^rd semester	Rs. 1,40,000/-
4^th semester	Rs. 90,000/-
Total Fee	Rs. 5,10,000/-

Scope & Placement

Master of Fine Arts in Photography prepares students for careers in Print Publications, E-Magazines, Advertising Agencies, Production Houses, TV Channels etc. One can also start one’s own business of Photography Studio, Freelance work for Fashion, Advertising, Commercial & Industrial photography. One can start Travel Photography, Fine Arts, and Experimental Photography and can organize Exhibitions and Shows individually or in a Group.

The classroom learning combined with the experiential exposure by professional photographers/ mentors provide a unique and innovative technical education that develops graduates with a creative style and unique visual problem-solving skills.

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The Institute offers a home away from home; we offer a community where students develop friendships, share experiences, learn from each other, and feel part of a supportive and caring community.

Facilities

Food | Laundry | Gym | Transport | Indoor sports

There exist a number of opportunities in a wide variety of avenues for placement

Advertising | Fashion | Media Production Houses | Weddings & Corporate Events

Fine Art & Experimental Photography | Wildlife & Travel Industry | Tourism & Culture Industry

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Four Semester Breakdown – 2 Year Programme

State-of-the-Art Facilities:

Professional Faculty:

Industry Relationships:

COURSE HIGHLIGHT

1st Semester

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Learning Output of the Course

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3rd Semester

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4th Semester

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Studio Practice

Critical Study

Professional Practice

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