The Photography programme celebrates discursive and interrogative practices. By studying and producing photographs and moving images, the students examine the apparatus of looking, slowing it down, rendering it thoughtful and contemplative. In some instances those apparatuses are dismantled entirely, their status questioned by peeling back the very structures that cause them to be seen.


A photographic image must manifest itself in the world in some form. Some works bond the image and paper so profoundly that they become one. Others cannot resist inviting the viewer’s gaze onto surfaces which slide further into yet more places beyond. Scale is used precisely, and some images produce oblivion when seen in relation to one another.


There are resistances too, against the reflective and deflective properties of the medium, against the platitudes so often promoted in the portrait. Pictorial content is never taken for granted and frequent calls are made on the viewer to examine their own assumptions.


The graduating students have also produced Seeing For Others, a book on dreaming and photography. It is edited by Rut Blees Luxemburg , with contributions from Alexander García Düttmann and Olivier Richon, and is published by Black Dog.