ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE MEDIA, ARTES E DESIGN

The cycle of studies in Photography aims at the qualified training of artists and photographers endowed with skills and critical capacity to develop the photographic discourse in its various aspects, both professional and authorial. In this sense, a strong practical component is emphasized, which enables the acquisition of technical skills and encourages experimentation and authorial development. The theoretical component aims to develop discursive and critical skills, as well as a historical and political awareness that encourages in students an innovative and challenging practice. Given the rapid and successive transformations in the field of image and, consequently, in the paradigms of photography, the course presents a wide range of curricular units that enable transdisciplinarity between photography and areas that allow the exploration of other “media” and formats that are fundamental for a contemporary photographic discourse supported by the indispensable technical support and by infrastructures and equipment of high quality.

The Master in Audiovisual Communication has two specializations: Photography and Documentary Cinema or Audiovisual Production and Direction. The course promotes the development of skills in research, theoretical conceptualization, artistic creation and project practice and aims to train professionals with higher qualifications in the field of research in photography, documentary and fiction filmmaking, directing, producing, sound, photography and audiovisual direction. In the first year, students work on theoretical issues related to research methodologies and the practices of photography and cinema (fiction and documentary) in the Artistic Residency. In the second year they develop an authorial project in one of the following areas: photography, documentary filmmaking, or fiction filmmaking. Alternatively, they can integrate a professional internship in a company or institution in the area under study. This master’s program, privileging interdisciplinarity and the relationship with the outside world, integrates in its curricular plan an Artistic Residency, the photography, cinema and multimedia cycle – Imagens do Real Imaginado – and several external initiatives. It welcomes the participation of national and international teachers, creatives, professionals in technical areas, filmmakers and photographers. It has protocols with several universities and partnerships with the main cultural and artistic organizations: Curtas de Vila do Conde, Olhares Frontais de Viana do Castelo, DocLisboa, Instituto de Cinema e Audiovisuais, Centro Português de Fotografia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, South Wales University, Derby University and Research Centers CCRE/FAUP, i2ADS/FBAUP, eCPR de Wales, among others.

PHOTOGRAPHY 1

In this curricular unit the basic principles of photographic technique are approached with manual control digital equipment, encouraging an intensive practice, observation of examples and collective discussion of results.

PHOTOGRAPHY 2

This curricular unit provides advanced photographic training with professional equipment, applied to portrait, product and landscape photography, promoting the integration of photography in multimedia environments.

PHOTOGRAPHY 1

Introduction to the structural foundations of the photographic phenomenon: from optical image to photometric quantification and control of density, contrast and color.

Handling the camera for formal and creative applications: sharpening, action, freeze and drag.

Use of the portable flash attached, as an element of qualitative modeling of the existing lighting.

Critique of photographic construction in thematic personal work. Use of the coupled portable flash, as an element of qualitative modeling of the existing illumination.

PHOTOGRAPHY 2

Study and practice of documentary photography in the areas of photojournalism, portraiture, landscape and architecture, with tools that allow a fully digital and analog / digital workflow.

PHOTOGRAPHY 3

Divided into two modules, this curricular unit (UC) equips students with advanced technical notions of production and post-production related to the universes of fashion advertising. This course is characterized by a high practical component and strong conceptual awareness.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT

Design and development of a photographic project, accompanied by a written report of technical, historical and critical contextualization on the chosen theme, culminating with an exhibition, a book and the public defense of the work.