The Masters in Photography
This high-quality training program covers a wide range of artistic and technical creative skills related to the photography fields: from shooting and post-production (both digital and analogue) to system management, as well as technical and commercial support and project management.
Objectives
This Master’s degree offers courses specific to the field of photography, plus technical and cultural fields associated with the digital economy and the heritage/archive field*.
This wide-range training offers both modularity and adaptability to technological developments, and is rightly recognized and appreciated in the professional world.
Working sectors and structures for our Photography graduates: fashion, photo studios and agencies; advertising, corporate; manufacturing, photo laboratories, retouching and image creation services, pre-press; publishing; metrology (technical testing), press; distribution; public and cultural institutions; research; teaching.
Principles
The diversity of the students’ profiles complements the wide range of skills this program covers.
This program is designed both to arm students with technical skills and a strong artistic and visual culture, and to progressively encourage individual trajectories that lead to mature and personalized projects. This is made through a common core of courses as well as a personalized curriculum with different options, and an individualized accompaniment.
Some of the school’s workshops are created in close association with partners (Société du Grand Paris, Paris-Aéroports or the Musée d’Orsay, Duperré Fashion School, etc.). Mobility projects are encouraged for the second year.
On completion of the diploma, further studies for a doctorate or study abroad are encouraged.
First Year
The first year provides students with a theoretical base (basic concepts and tools) in the image formation process, from capture to processing.
The teaching of techniques, manipulation and artistic creation, practical work and projects permeates all the modules. A first training course is carried out to develop the group’s fundamental skills.
Some examples of creative projects:
- Car workshop (shooting and retouching), reportage module, the object in light (still life).
- Workshops on the application of photographic principles.
- Art and technique of the frame, art and technique of light, editing, documentary, video.
- Technology workshops: equipment technology, colour management, light sources, black and white and colour silver laboratory, electricity, the conservation of photographs.
- Algorithmic processing application workshops, interactive systems, video grading.
Second Year
The « Commission » module introduces projects that encourage individual expression while meeting specifications. These projects are based on partnerships that question the purpose of the image through exchanges of expertise and the understanding of cultural and economic realities.
The two other modules, « Heritage » and « Image Expertise » reinforce the knowledge of the photographic image through technical-scientific components.
In the second semester, the M1 offers students the opportunity to take a specific path with a choice of optional workshops. The combination chosen by each student will enable him or her to refine career objectives.
A few examples: 3D flow, alternative processing, editing, the chamber portrait, 360° production, video production, augmented reality and assisted/remote control.
Third Year
The first semester includes either a national or international mobility project or a creative experiment that will be featured in a public exhibition, or a real visual and sound scenographic device connecting photography to other media.
The dissertation and the associated production work provide training involving research into Human and Social Sciences or the Visual Arts, as well as applied or professional research. This work enables students to take stock of the training’s unifying elements, but also to target an individual field via a specialisation.
A diversity of methodological approaches (research-creation process, scientific and technical experimental approach or survey) is encouraged within the dissertation. The link between theory and practice is fundamental to the development of appropriate and useful questions.
The student takes this major step in his or her curriculum as their springboard to the world of work or further study.
