Bachelor of Photography

The photography program of study at The Institut seni Indonesia (ISI) Denpasar adopts an open and experimental approach to fine art photographic practice, stressing the development of personal enquiry, negotiated through frequent dialogue and regular opportunities to exhibit work.

The program of study questions and proposes new forms for practice within and beyond lens based practice. On the program of study you will be asked to consider the broadest applications of image and material within a photographically oriented culture. We encourage you to think, through the documentation, advertising, personal momento, public image and object of expression, how these uses effect our perception of photographic culture. You will be asked to think about the photograph as both image and object, as fleeting appearance, representation and abstraction.

Our excellent technical staff will introduce you to black and white and color dark room processes, studio lighting, advanced alternative printing, post production, color management and much more. One-to-one technical support provides invaluable opportunities to develop specific skills. You will be asked to test and explore the creative possibilities and limit of the medium, and will be encouraged to develop approaches that feed new and innovative ways of working.

You will investigate method through which your work reaches its audience, from physical installation, exhibition, and publication, to new media and web. Thought by prominent artists, critics, curator and publisher, you will be offered opportunities, to develop new ideas, and approaches whilst developing professional contacts and an independent practice.

This program of study prepares you for job in arrange of professional and commercial environments. Recent graduates have been selected for and have exhibited in major Indonesian competitions and exhibitions. This program of study provides you with an extensive opportunities such as; professional photographer, photographic exhibition organizer, lecturer, photographic consultant, etc.

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