Photography
The study of photography can be used to broaden personal experience and understanding of an increasingly interconnected and technologically rich world. Photography enables students to explore and understand self, others, the world, and their place in it, as creators and consumers.
The study of photography can be used to broaden personal experience and understanding of an increasingly interconnected and technologically rich world. Photography enables students to explore and understand self, others, the world, and their place in it, as creators and consumers.
Images are the language of photography, and are used to represent, question, and communicate concepts and ideas. Students learn how photography stems from traditions and has styles, forms and conventions that inform its visual language. Photographic practice has the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, excite their curiosity and imagination. Photography builds resilient, empathetic, and resourceful people with the ability to shape and respond to a changing world. Students develop interpersonal skills to work collaboratively and independently, making and responding to photographic works for a range of audiences.
Students develop general capabilities and transferable skills through the creative process that are readily transferable to other roles in the creative industries. They become problem solvers, and critical and creative thinkers, and these skills are relevant to a wide range of career and life pathways. Students develop sophisticated technical, conceptual knowledge and skills to be informed, visually literate communicators. Students apply their skills and capabilities in specific photographic and commercial and artistic endeavours, and more broadly in a range of personal interests and work contexts.
The Photography course is written under The ARTS Framework 2021: BSSS ARTS Framework
Achievement Standards for ARTS courses can be found within the Framework.
Through the study of the Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions, as they discover and interpret an increasingly complex technological and interconnected world. The subjects in this Learning Area share common understandings and broad conceptual underpinnings and imperatives.
Creativity in Photography
Students learn about the creative process in Photography. They explore techniques and strategies used to create photographic works. Students apply the creative process, techniques, use of equipment and strategies to express their understanding of self, others, and the world.
Communicating Meaning in Photography
Students learn about how meaning is communicated in a variety of photographic forms, styles, and conventions. They investigate the constructed and contested nature of meaning in photography. They explore techniques for communicating their ideas to an audience. Students apply their understanding to communicate meaning in response to a range of issues through photography.
Photography in Context
Students learn about how photographers over time and place have represented their knowledge and experience. They explore how photographers throughout the world and history have expressed their understanding of self, place, and issues. They examine how meaning is constructed or contested depending on the context of its presentation. Students apply their knowledge of context, empathy, ethics, and principles of intercultural understanding to creating photography.
Narratives in Photography
Students learn about the photographer as a storyteller. They explore photographic works across different photographic platforms that are constructed or documented to shape narrative. Through analysis of narratives in photographic works, students gain insights on how perspectives on the world and/or identity are presented. Students apply their theoretical and technical skills to construct and/or document narratives.
Independent Study
An Independent Study unit has an important place in senior secondary courses. It is a valuable pedagogical approach that empowers students to make decisions about their own learning. An Independent Study unit can be proposed by an individual student for their own independent study and negotiated with their teacher. The program of learning for an Independent Study unit must meet the unit goals and content descriptions as they appear in the course. Students must have studied at least THREE standard 1.0 units from this course. A student can only study a maximum of one Independent study unit in each course. An Independent Study unit requires the principal’s written approval. Independent study units are only available to individual students in Year 12. Principal approval is also required for a student in Year 12 to enrol concurrently in an Independent unit and the third 1.0 unit in a course of study.
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