The department understands photography as a medium with no fixed identity. This disregard for a fixed essence is photography’s strength: no aesthetic purity but a multiplicity of rhetorical forms used for the creation of fact, fiction and fantasy. An informed practice of photography acknowledges the heterogeneous traditions of fine art and visual culture, and also engages with practices of reading and writing about the image.

Students produce not only images but also analytical thinking in order to study what photography is, for the purpose of discovering what it can become.