This creative photo arts course targets those keen to engage with photographic practices in a contemporary context; the critical andquestioning philosophy of the course seeks to explore, develop and extend conventional understandings of photography; throughinvestigation, experimentation and risk taking, students evolve creative uses of photography and related media forms in an arts based context; learning develops in a student-centred context of open discussion, debate and critical engagement with developing work; students develop an understanding of professional practice through exhibition projects and are prepared for post-graduate life equipped with a portfolio of individual and collaborative photographic art works.