The Intermediate Course is a 21 week, full time program designed to further broaden student’s skills in photography. The course aims at equip photographers with technical, conceptual, creative and professional skills relevant to the broader creative industry.  

On completion of this course, students can work as entry-level in-house photographers, retouch artists, freelance photographers, or establish a small-to-medium photography enterprise. Students can also choose to specialise in fields such as social documentary, commercial, or art photography. 

As a new practitioner, students will be able to take on modest professional assignments and charge entry-level fees. They should also be capable of working as a photographer’s assistant on larger, more ambitious assignments in various streams of photography. The Intermediate Course gives you a clear basis from which to launch into the Advanced Programme in Photography or the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme. 

Outcomes 

 By the end of the Intermediate Course you will be able to: 

• Operate digital and analogue SLR cameras efficiently, using advanced settings.
• Work in a studioenvironment photographing models and products. 
• Use advanced toolsinAdobe Photoshop and Lightroom. 
• Critically engage with different forms of visual materials and relate them back to your photography practice.
• Compile a diverse and comprehensive professional photographicportfolio,that includes a detailed project funding proposal. 
• Execute long-term photography visual narrativeson topics of social relevance in both social documentary and conceptual photography. 
• Tackle a variety ofclient basedphotographic assignments with satisfactory results. 

Modules 

Technical Practice 

Post Production 

Visual Studies 

Professional Practice 

Visual Narrative (conceptual and social documentary) 

Applied Photography 

Duration: Twenty One Weeks 

Course commences on the following dates: 

IC 25-01 : 22 January – 13 June 2025 

IC 25-02 : 3 July – 28 November 2025 

 *Dates may change.* 

Time: Mon – Fri     09h00 – 17h00 

Cost:  R14 000 for South African students and students from the continent. 

R 30 000 International students. 

For international students, It is advisable to pay an application and registration fee of R1100 instead of R100 upon your application to save on bank fees, although it is not compulsory.

Assessment of short courses 

The Market Photo Workshop employs a comprehensive approach to assessment that is focused on ensuring that you, the learner, are able to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to be a photographer.  

 For your final assessment, you will be required produce a body of work in order to demonstrate that you have grasped the basic technical/practical skills outlined above.  This body of work will be presented in portfolio format, and as a small exhibition.  Your portfolio and exhibition will be accompanied by written tasks aimed at demonstrating your grasp of the professional practice and visual literacy aspects of the course and you will be required to do a brief verbal presentation of your work.   

Methodology 

Each week includes a mixture of contact time with facilitators and independent work. Students will: 

• Photograph and process images in response to class briefs 

• Work in the computer lab 

• Spend time in the library for research and inspiration 

Each session with facilitators involves an exciting and stimulating mixture of delivery methods aimed at ensuring that you emerge from the course able to confidently and independently apply the skills and knowledge that you have acquired.