BA (Hons) Fashion Photography and Image Production Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University

This module will expand your understanding of past and contemporary contexts while developing core skills in research, concept development, and shoot planning. By studying diverse image-making approaches and fashion theory, you will gain essential knowledge of the techniques, practices, and collaborative roles that drive successful fashion imagery.

The aim of this module is to change the way you look at fashion images to better understand the power of visuals and their place in the world. You will look at fashion and beauty imagery from a theoretical point of view and use this deeper understanding to support the creation of your own practical work.

This module introduces you to the creative, technical, and collaborative processes behind producing professional fashion shoots for editorial fashion publications. You will learn how to conceptualize, plan, style, photograph, and deliver a fashion story tailored to both brand identity and audience.

This module offers a practice-led introduction to the core subjects and skills required for producing beauty focused imagery for editorial and advertising contexts. Through lectures, group seminars, and technical workshops, you will develop an informed understanding of trend driven visuals and the cultural influences shaping contemporary beauty media.

This shared, interdisciplinary module provides a 'launchpad' for students across our fashion courses, to collaborate on a live brief - mirroring the professional creative team environment. This client-focused module will give you the confidence to get out into industry and give you the ability to apply the skills gained during your first year of studies.

The module will help you understand how narrative has always been a powerful and evocative aspect of fashion photography, and of visual art in general. You will also explore how moving image has become an essential skill across all creative industries. Practical learning includes skills shared across filmmaking and still image making: concept development, story boarding, pre-planning, shooting, pacing and editing.

In this module you investigate the fashion photography industry and explore how fashion photographers draw inspiration from varied historical, contemporary, and contextual sources to inspire their work. During the module you'll enhance your existing photographic skills and increase your knowledge of different areas of the industry, enabling you to work within set parameters within these areas.

This module provides an opportunity to critically engage with the complex political, social, and cultural landscapes that shape the contemporary fashion industry. You will be able to choose a cultural, political, or social issue you are passionate about, investigate it, and express your thoughts and feelings about it through a variety of media.

This module will support you in refining your career direction by critically assessing current industry practice and your own body of work. By identifying your strengths and areas of development in relation to your chosen industry direction, you'll build professional confidence and establish a link between academic study and professional application. You will be required to gain some work experience hours, that you will reflect on in a later module.

In this module you'll build on the research and understanding gained in the Professional Perspectives module. You will use your specialist skills to define and create a substantial, high-quality portfolio of new work that directly responds to your chosen area of industry, along with a focused 'graduate career file' to support you after graduation.

You will bring together all the skills and knowledge you have gained throughout your time on the course to prepare a considered proposal that is the basis for your final major project and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and develop your ideas through practical testing and research. It is your opportunity to tailor your own project and focus on the areas that interest you most and best support your career aspirations.

You'll be able to showcase your breadth of skills and knowledge, gained during your studies, by undertaking in-depth research, development and practice throughout your major project. You'll create a substantial project that focuses on your area of professional interest and showcases your specialist skills. This could be a body of editorial work, a series of films, photography publication, or even an installation project.