Level 3 Visual Arts - Photography

Course Overview:

This course builds on the skills and knowledge gained in your Year 12 Visual Arts Photography class. You will explore a range of artistic conventions, ideas, and techniques in the medium of photography—both historical and contemporary—and apply them to your own portfolio project. Internal assignments will contribute towards the external assessment, and the project will be a year-long investigation into your chosen subject matter and theme. This project allows you to explore topics that are meaningful to you while expressing your original ideas, grounded in the pictorial issues of your selected artist models and stylistic approaches.

Students are encouraged to explore a wide range of artistic practices in photography, from analogue processes such as solar imaging to advanced digital processes and editing, including moving images. You will also be encouraged to combine fine arts techniques with photography by "interfering" with the photographic image through collage, paint, and mixed media processes. This is a unique opportunity to experiment and spend the year learning a wide variety of techniques, media, and approaches to photography.