Build a toolkit to confidently decode and analyze complex contemporary works in any setting.

Explore how modern artists navigate and respond to the most pressing social and political questions of our time.

Apply insights from world-class artists to enhance your own academic studies or professional creative practice.

Understand artists’ processes and the choices that inform a photograph’s making, including experimentation and responses to technological innovation.

Learn how context influences the production, circulation, and reception of photographic images.

Understand the relationship between a photograph’s subject and meaning, and the differences between photographs as objects and photographic images.

Gain confidence in looking at and talking about photography, and find inspiration from photographs all around you.