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CEAD University Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging (P+DI)

This one year part-time course offers students an opportunity to extend their visual vocabulary and explore the creative possibilities of photography within contemporary visual art and design practice.

Applications for 2023 entry will open late April

Award: University Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Credits/Level: 30 ECTS, Level 7 NFQ

Portfolio: See portfolio brief below
Duration: 25 weeks autumn to spring,
2 x evenings per week
Fee 2022 - 2023: €1,800 payable in two instalments, September and January
Programme Code: AD096

Watch the P+DI presentation below.

AD096 P+DI Programme Information

Download the Portfolio Brief

AD096 P+DI Modules:

Term starts Tuesday, 20th September, 2022

Code	Module Name	Credits	Semester	Evening 6.15 to 9pm
CEAD1030	Materials and Techniques	5	1	Tuesday & Thursday
CEAD1031	Photographic Concepts	5	1	Tuesday & Thursday
CEAD1032	Theories & Themes in Crirtical Cultures	5	1	Tuesday & Thursday
CEAD1033	Research and Practice	10	2	Tuesday & Thursday
CEAD1002	Professional Practice 1	5	2	Tuesday & Thursday

*Please note that all students are required to have access to a computer and WiFi

More Information:

P+DI TUTORS:

David Monahan - Lead Tutor, David Monahan has just launched a new website about his photographic practice at davidmonahan.eu
Artur Sikora - Artur Sikora’s work is viewable on artursikora.com
Robert Ellis - Robert Ellis’s work is available on robeftellis.eu
Orla Fitzpatrick - Orla Fitzpatrick's extensive writings on Irish Vernacular Photography are available on https://jacolette.wordpress.com

P+DI GRADUATE WORK:

All of our 2020 graduates are featured on this platform: https://www.source.ie/graduate/2020/naticollce/naticollce_index.php

Several of our former students were featured in the exhibition which went up during lockdown on hoardings across Dublin: The Positive Space @ThePSIreland including @AislingMcCoy.

P+DI PROGRESSION:

P+DI graduates have progressed to various Fine Art BA pathways in NCAD, as well as the BA in photographic Media, at Griffith College Dublin, and beyond.

P+DI ALUMNI:

Niamh Smith (Dublin), Home, Soft Focus Life, Cocooning, Shortlisted for the 2020 Zurich Portrait Prize. This is Niamh’s second nomination in 2 years.
Graduate of C.E.A.D. Photography and Digital Imaging, 2017.
Progressed to Ulster University Belfast - School of Art’s - MFA in Photography.
Shane Hynan, selected for the 'Emerging Artist Solo Exhibition Award' for 2020 through Arts in Co. Kildare (Kildare Arts Service) and Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge.
Graduate of C.E.A.D. Photography and Digital Imaging, 2017.
Progressed to Ulster University Belfast - School of Art’s - MFA in Photography.
https://www.instagram.com/shanehynan/?hl=en
https://www.life-framer.com/photographer/shane-hynan/
Joe Marner, just published a book with the Library Project.
Graduate of C.E.A.D. Photography and Digital Imaging, 2020.
Joe is set to study a BA in Photography in Rotterdam in 2020-21.
https://twitter.com/TLP_says/status/1285186789821624326/photo/3
Gerry Blake, RHA AWARD for Best emerging photographer.
Gerry has also showed at the Lexicon , Dun Laoghaire where he also runs a photographic course.
https://gerryblake.net/
Jeanette Lowe, Taylor Wessing Prize Finalist.
Jeanette Lowe is a photographic artist who is probably best known for her studies of inner-city Dublin communities and architecture. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally.
http://www.jeanettelowe.com
Erin Quinn, Hennessy Port Prize Finalist.
Erin has also had solo shows in The Talbot galleries and studios, and showed in several RHA summer shows.
https://www.erinlquinnphotography.com/

P+DI VISITING LECTURERS:

Mandy O’Neill - Visiting lecturer Mandy O’Neill won the Zurich Portrait Prize in 2016, the first photographer to win this prize ever. http://www.mandyoneill.ie/

Pete Smith - made a compelling presentation on his recent show and book local (Rua Red and The Gallery Of Photography) 2020

Shane Lynam - 2019, presented on the process of making a book project the book being the fantastic, Fifty High Seasons http://www.shanelynamphoto.com/

Vukasin Nedeljković - spoke about his project, exhibition and book, Asylum Archive in 2018 http://www.asylumarchive.com/

Angel Luis Gonzalez - of PhotoIreland Festival and The Library Project spoke about all things PhotoIreland2016 photoireland.org