It must be obvious to everyone that the fast changing technological and economic conditions of our social world raises new challenges for those who set out to study and practice photography. The ‘future of photography’ has been a theme underlying many public and academicevents in recent years and months, not least because what we know as photography is itself changing. For universities this represents a challenge: to address the wide new social practices of photography while maintaining an interest in the critical history of older well-established practices. For students the challenge is finding ways to interrogate the relations between things, address experiences, and to explore and develop particular aesthetic practices within the vast field of potential opportunities, references and domains of thinking.
In the end, the question of the future of photography veils questions about the ends of making images. I hope you will agree that the photoworks represented on the following pages (and the walls of the exhibition space of Ambika P3 in September 2011) are clear in their aims and beautiful ambition. The clarity of their work is the result of their own negotiations of the
future of photography.
David Bate
Course Leader, MA Photographic Studies
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