Materiality has been an integral feature of a photographic object since the earliest photographic processes. The changing nature of the print with the introduction of digital technology has created a field where artists work across analogue and digital processes fluidly to draw both on photography’s history and it’s contemporary discourse.

This course will investigate the influence of analogue and digital fine printing methods on the artistic and conceptual production of photographic artworks. It will provide students with an understanding of traditional and digital technologies and ways of relating them to physical output and creativity. It will enable students to work across numerous disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking and photography by exploring the lineage and application of technology and print processes to fine print outcomes.

The course provides a framework for thinking theoretically about modes of reproduction and edition though photographic printing and the introduction of digital technology to traditional autographic and photomechanical print processes. It will enable students to develop a deep technical and conceptual understanding of fine print methods in contemporary practice.

This course requires knowledge of basic analogue and digital photographic processes.