Location: On Campus (Boston)
Format: In-person, Full Time
Length of Program: 4 years
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography
Rooted in a spirit of experimentation, our curriculum gives students the tools to discover their own motivations as artists and to create images that communicate them meaningfully. Merging the traditions and possibilities of the medium—both analog and digital—students develop visual literacy and a rich appreciation for the complex language of images.
Video by In the Car.
Photograph by Matthew Monteith
Sophomore Year – You’ll learn to use a large format camera with black and white film developed and printed in our darkrooms. You’ll achieve technical excellence in silver printing and begin to develop a personal vision. These first steps help you build the technical skills and visual literacy needed to start shaping your own artistic voice.
Junior Year – Here you’ll dive into digital capture, color management, and wide-format inkjet printing. You’ll also explore bookmaking, photobooks, and alternative processes, giving you tools to tell stories in new and creative ways.
Senior Year – Your senior year is all about bringing your vision together. Your focus shifts to extended projects, portfolio development, and crafting artist statements. You’ll present your thesis projects in a gallery exhibition and produce a professional catalog.
You’ll be taught by practicing artists and visiting professionals who are nationally and internationally recognized. At the end of each semester, you’ll present your final work to a panel of faculty and accomplished guest artists, curators, and writers.
Students who complete the Photography BFA program are expected to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes.
BFA students gain the skills and experiences needed to pursue a successful career and are equipped with the creative agency, analytical skills, and discipline needed to pursue their vision.
Our alumni exhibit and publish their work with impressive regularity and win eminent awards and grants such as the Fulbright Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Fine Art Photographer, Editorial Photographer, Commercial Photographer, Fashion Photographer, Educator, Entrepreneur, Photography Editor, Digital Asset Manager, Publisher, Creative Director, Multimedia Artist, Museum Professional.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, WGBH, Daylight Books, Abelardo Morell STudio LLC, Barbara Bosworth, Sage Sohier Photography, Panopticon Gallery, Musee Magazine, Boston Cyberarts, Griffin Museum of Photography, Artists for Humanity, Bodega LLC
New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, NYU, Kate Spade, Boston Globe, Rhode Island School of Design, Danforth Art Museum, Photographic Resource Center, Panopticon Gallery
Undergraduate students interested in teaching K-12 may also explore a five year BFA/MAT program in which they major in Photography and in the fifth year undertake an Masters in Arts in Teaching degree through our esteemed Art Education department.
Art Education BFA/MAT
