In order to be accepted in our Photography Programme it is important that you participate in our trial-morning (in Dutch, meeloopochtend).
Participating in the trial-morning requires you to complete assignments, which will be given to you to make at home. They will be discussed on campus. During the trial-morning, you have the possibility to solicit questions and participate in discussions with the students and lecturers, concerning all aspects of the course and your work. Also you can present the assignments you made at home, in order to improve your work. At the end of the trial-morning it will be determined if you are ready for the admission-afternoon. Candidates who are accepted will be invited to proceed to the Admission –afternoon. At the admission-afternoon you will be given a few assignments which should be completed that same afternoon. You will have at least one interview. Provided that you have been successful at the admission-afternoon, you will become, as we call it “Artistically Admissible.” Once you have successfully completed the administration details, such as payment of tuition fees, you will be admitted into our Photography Programme at the Academy.
It is advisable to enter a trial-morning at the earliest possibility. You can participate at a trial-morning as often as you like. If you would like to participate in our trial-morning, please click on the button below or on our homepage to fill in the on-line registration form.
Questionnaire
Specific Admission Requirements
The students should be able to meet the following requirements:
• Have artistic passion for the photography medium;
• Have a considerable amount of interest concerning social aspects;
• Work from his or her own interests and ideas;
• Want to show their own ideas;
• Have good communication skills;
• Have excellent organizational skills;
• Take their own initiative;
• Have perseverance;
• Are able to work independently as well as cooperate with others;
• Can think analytically;
• Possess good writing skills;
• Are aware of the level and infrastructure of photography in The Netherlands;
• Are able to show some experience in the use of the medium for the chosen field;
• Work in a photography sequence;
• Are aware that photography is not only a visionary discipline and that it requires more than excellent technical skills and good judgment.
Editorial Photography and Commercial Photography are the two main fields of photography which you can follow in our Photography course at The Royal Academy of Art. During the foundation year of the Photography Programme, you have to choose one of the two fields offered. Editorial Photography depicts a documentary–like and journalistic approach of photography. It portrays issues which have social importance and a certain authenticity value for the target group of the photography medium. Commercial Photography is aimed at advertising photography and fashion photography. A commercial photographer takes pictures which generally serve a specific function and usually requires a considerable high technical level. Both Commercial and Editorial Photography posses an artistic component that enables them to adequately and artistically display their subjects.
The Royal Academy of Art prepares you for the contemporary professional practice in the photography industry. This requires a degree of professionalism, flexibility and functioning in several aspects. The contemporary photographer every so often operates in both the editorial and commercial fields and sometimes even within autonomous art. Using pressed media, film/video and electronic media does this. For this reason, we prepare you for all areas of the field of photography. This means that besides the core subjects of the photography course, such as documentary and photograph journalism, photographic and digital techniques, fashion and advertising; additional practical courses such as audiovisuals and films, including graphic design, are offered. A contemporary photographer has considerable technical knowledge about the functions and language disciplines of an image. Therefore, we offer a vast theoretical programme comprising of more than just art and the history of photography, but also film history, media theory and communication. The academic staff consists of young and experienced image-makers (photographers, film-makers, designers), picture critics (art and film historians) and picture editors (art directors). The Photography programme is offered as a full-time course. The part-time course is only Editorial. Both courses have a duration of four years.
If you would like to receive more information or would like speak to someone from the department please contact our Student Administrations Office:
070-315 47 70
or the secretary:
070-3154735 (daily only between 12-13 pm).
www.studiokabk.nl/photography
