photography

As the programme progresses, you photograph more from your own thought processes. Ideas about photography should be able to resonate in forms, and vice versa. When you start the photography course with us, don't just think about the image itself, but also about the possible contexts in which that image will be viewed. In the bachelor years, you will also learn how to set up, exhibit, publish your work.

Once the bachelor is finished, there is the possibility of starting the master's programme: a time when you focus your ambitions as a photographer in an artistic project of your own. In that master's programme, some thoroughly challenge the accepted views on photography: for them, a rather conceptual, strictly artistic approach to the medium takes precedence. Others convince the outside world with documentary work that comes about after an intensive and investigative creative process. Although not an end in itself, our students' work often ends up on the art circuit or in various publications during their years of study.

We train authors, people who have something to say with the images they create. Once you graduate, you will build an oeuvre as a photographer, visual artist and go to work as a photojournalist, documentary maker, curator, ...

The large number of alumni who have since built up a significant body of work testifies to the sustained quality of our intense graduate programme.

Several alumni are still closely involved in the programme as guest speakers, teachers, researchers or jury members: Dirk Braeckman, Carl De Keyzer, Lieve Blancquaert, Jan Kempenaers, Mekhitar Garabedian, Nick Hannes, Arian Christiaens, Joachim Naudts, Bieke Depoorter, Max Pinckers, Michiel Decleene, Aurélie Geurts, Tom Callemin. More recent generations also produced numerous excellent young photographers: Sanne De Wilde, Frederik Buyckx, Maroesjka Lavigne, Thomas Sweertvaegher, Stefaan Temmerman, Sebastian Steveniers, Lisa Spilliaert, Thomas Min, Chantal Van Rijt, Titus Simoens, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Lucas Leffler, Kaat Pype, Barbara Debeuckelaere, Jan Rosseel, Kristof Thomas.

KASK & Conservatorium offers English-language master programmes in the visual arts, audiovisual arts, drama and music. Each year, dozens of foreign students choose the master programmes of our faculty to continue their studies. The presence of students from different international backgrounds is an enrichment for our educational tradition and provides an added value to the training of foreign master students and Flemish students moving on from the Dutch-language bachelor programmes alike.

The programmes are organized so as to facilitate encounters between Dutch-speaking and English-speaking students in informal contexts, in seminars and courses, and even in artistic projects they start up together. There are no differences in curricula, competencies, learning outcomes or organization between the English-language programmes and their Dutch-language counterparts. English-speaking candidates holding a master’s degree in music can also go in for the advanced master contemporary music or one of our postgraduate programmes.

Don’t hesitate to contact the study and learning track counsellors with your questions.