The photography program currently offers four courses which will teach you the basics of everything you need to know to become a photographer - from composition to shooting, developing, pictures and printing. The course sequence is taught in a large, professionally run black-and-white darkroom, a film development lab, and a professional mounting and matting facility. The courses and the studios are organized to support your efforts to produce exhibition-quality work. Many students have launched their careers even before graduation.

Our instruction specializes in 35-mm and medium-format cameras, covering a variety of print-enlargement and film-development techniques that will develop the skill you need to be a professional photographer. View-camera format is also available for study by students wanting to further enhance their knowledge.

You will become acquainted with traditional and contemporary masters of photography through the History of Photography course. Studying these masters will enlarge both your techincal and aesthetic judgement. Important current exhibits in New York are used as sources of learning and inspiration.

Critiques and student exhibits will help develop your aesthetic judgement even as you are taught to understand and employ the fundamentals of picture making, such as composition and lighting, essential for every creative photographer.

It is ours aim to help students realize and produce photographic work that expresses their own particular vision but which reflects a consciousness of aesthetic traditions of art. To see what we do, come up to the photo lab on the fifth floor of Boylan Hall during class hours and speak directly to our students. We look forward to seeing you.