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The Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art is designed to expose students to a wide range of visual arts and to contemporary and historical artists. Students with this major can prepare for a successful career in Photography, Two-dimensional Art, or Three-dimensional Art.
The photography emphasis at BYU-Idaho courses in digital and film photography, studio and location lighting, and documentary photography. You'll get to work closely with faculty mentors to learn the finer aspects of photographic craft, practice, and theory. With a Fine Art: Photography degree, you'll transform your artistic passion into a career.
The photography emphasis at BYU-Idaho courses in digital and film photography, studio and location lighting, and documentary photography. You'll get to work closely with faculty mentors to learn the finer aspects of photographic craft, practice, and theory. With a Fine Art: Photography degree, you'll transform your artistic passion into a career.
Highlighted Career Paths
Graduates with a degree in Photography have a wide array of rewarding careers before them. Check out some of the top careers students get with this degree or explore more career options in I-Plan.
Commercial/studio photographer
Commercial and Studio Photographers take photographs of people, products, and/or places for clients. Studio photographers work for a company, or more often, they own their own studio and work for a variety of clients.
Art photographer
Art Photographers produce fine photographic prints to sell through galleries, personal websites, art shows, etc. Fine art photographers also complete artist residencies, apply for grants and may choose to go to graduate school, which qualifies them to teach at the university level.
Small business owner
A photographer who owns a small photography business will complete a variety of photographic tasks for a variety of clients. A photographer may own a storefront studio or may work out of their home.
Getting Started in this degree
If you are interested in Photography, start with one of the following major-specific courses
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