Last year I established a new course with a first cohort of students. A unique student led, student focused MA in Professional Photography at Oxford Brookes University. I say unique because I believe it is! The course is delivered completely online and therefore benefits from an international cohort and an international teaching team of working professionals based around the world. Students make work that means something to them and direct their own learning in whichever area of the medium they wish.

Students apply for the course with a portfolio of their own work and a written statement explaining what they hope to achieve from studying with us. A statement that can be anything from a few words to a thousand words. We let our applicants decide! A conversation takes place and the journey begins…

If you would like to find out more about what we do, why we do it and how we do it then you can at our next free webinar on Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 7.00pm GMT. The academic year begins each September and the course can be completed full-time over one year or part-time over two. You choose!

I hope to see you at the webinar.

Grant

You can register for the webinar here:
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/open-days/pg-webinars/2025/why-study-an-ma-in-professional-photography-web

Dr.Grant Scott
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8 magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography (Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate) at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott continues to work as a photographer, writer and filmmaker and is the Subject Coordinator for both undergraduate and post graduate study of photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England.