Photography Media Arts: Future Students
A contemporary image-making program that combines photography, moving image, installation, publishing and critical practice.
Photography Media Arts treats the image as an expanding field rather than a single medium. Students work across still photography, moving image, installation, publishing, documentary, editorial, commercial and gallery contexts while developing a strong technical foundation and an informed visual language.
Through production, critique, exhibition and publication, students develop an individual artistic and professional practice. They learn to make compelling work, explain its meaning, present it to audiences and adapt their skills across artistic commissions, cultural organizations, commercial practice and portfolio careers.
Full-time format
4 years
Degree earned
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Experiential Learning
Global learning • Internship available
Admission requirements
Grades Plus program (Academic + Non-Academic Requirements)
What sets this program apart
The program combines rigorous photographic craft with experimentation across contemporary media. Students have access to cameras, lighting, darkrooms and editing facilities, as well as The Image Centre and its collection of more than 400,000 photographs. They exhibit before graduation, including through the Maximum Exposure year-end exhibition associated with the CONTACT Photography Festival.
Skills students develop
- Photographic capture, lighting and digital workflow
- Moving image, installation and expanded media
- Editing, sequencing and visual storytelling
- Documentary, editorial and commercial image-making
- Critical theory, research and visual ethics
- Exhibition, publication and portfolio development
- Professional practice, pitching and client communication
Career possibilities
- Editorial, commercial and documentary photography
- Fine-art and gallery practice
- Photo and video editing or production
- Arts administration, curation and collections
- Publishing, image research and visual content
- Digital media and creative production
- Independent commissions and portfolio careers
Employers
Employers range from national to international firms.
- Freelance Photography for the Globe and Mail, Report on Business, FASHION magazine, The Walrus, Toronto Life and others
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- McCann
- Contact Photography Festival
- Gallery 44
- Gallery TPW
- Archive of Modern Conflict
- The Bentway
- Toronto District School Board
- Toronto Image Works
- National Gallery of Canada
- Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
- Royal Ontario Museum
- The Image Centre
The TMU and downtown Toronto advantage
Students work beside The Image Centre and within walking distance of galleries, publishers, cultural organizations, production studios and the CONTACT Photography Festival. Toronto gives them regular opportunities to exhibit, network and understand how professional image-making operates across artistic and commercial settings.
Explore Your Journey
Alumni Network
As graduates of Canada’s most prestigious photography program, our alumni have found professional and creative success as artists and image makers, designers, critics, art directors, curators, and more.
They work in galleries, studios, universities, magazines, newspapers, publication houses, creative agencies, and businesses, making invaluable contributions to Canada’s image-based industries.