Study programme

The two-year English-taught master's degree programme Photography & Society is structured to reflect our strength in collaboration, research, and impact. Studios, workshops, seminars, and other peer learning structures enable you, regardless of seismic shifts in the social and photographic landscape, to seek and find your own answers.

Photography & Society links to practical assignments. Through the unique positioning of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) near various ministries and internationally oriented partners and organisations, you engage with the political, economic, and cultural arena.

Programmastructuur

Your first year provides a detailed engagement with practice through experimentation, questioning, play and dialogue as an input to the process. Four studios are structured over two semesters around annually changing, centrally-established research themes based upon the dynamics of the changing field of work, providing a clear focus. Theory seminars and workshops support major studio work.

The Master Project (a combination of practical work and a written thesis), is a yearlong endeavour over the course of the two semesters of the second year. During this period, a significant body of work is created, combining your explorations into individual practice and theory with an ability to position yourself – and your work – in a societal context.

The produced and written work reflects a synthesis of reflexive, conceptual, practical and professional abilities. Your Master Project is a fusion of analytical study and practice, culminating in a graduation show and public presentation of the work. It has entered society.