Master of Arts / Master of Fine Arts in Photography & Image-making

The program focuses on new types of visual storytelling: still images, video, and multimedia, with a curriculum that emphasizes knowledge and transdisciplinary skill sets and understands photography as a hybrid and emerging art form.

The program is suitable for students who want to understand better how to navigate in an image-driven society, to be not only makers but visual thinkers, capable of relating to different fields with a critical analytical capacity, inventiveness, knowing how to juggle with the technological and communication means available today, and ready to offer creative solutions through images.

Based on the intersection of visual phenomena, new media, critical studies, and creative production, the program offers a unique blend of studio practice and theoretical and art historical training. At PCA, students can complete either a Master of Art (MA) or a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography and Image Making. These programs’ first two semesters (fall and spring) follow a common curriculum. MFA students then continue for two semesters of study in the following year to receive the MFA degree, suitable for an academic career.