Art, B.F.A. Photography Concentration

UNC Greensboro students in the BFA and BA Program with a concentration in Photography are offered a wide array of classes in digital, analog, and historical photographic processes as a way to master the craft and define your vision as contemporary image makers. UNCG’s program encourages and supports each student as they develop their own artistic vision through technical instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking.

Program Distinctions

• Photography students have the opportunity to study abroad biannually in different countries, including Iceland, France, and Ireland.
• Students enrolled in ART 487 participate in the National For Freedoms Project to create a large-scale public art project, which has taken students to NYC and Los Angeles as well as cities and towns in North Carolina.
• The Photography Triplette fund has brought notable artists to give public talks as well as meet one on one with photo students in individualized critiques. Artists include Emmet Gowin, Nina Berman, Abelardo Morell, Rania Matar, Keith Carter, McNair Evans, and many more.
• The Triplette Fund provides a generous yearly scholarship for a student with a concentration in photography.
• The photography area is in partnership with the National Click! Photography Festival where we participate in Click Academy. Students receive one on one feedback from renowned photographic advisors and share work.
• Faculty member and area coordinator Leah Sobsey specializes in alternative photographic processes with a specialty in plant-based printing processes and interdisciplinary research.

The Student Experience

The photography area is a tight knit group of students who work across all genres of the medium. We have a robust analog and digital program with students working in all areas of photography including alternative historical processes, studio lighting, darkroom, and digital photography.

Students participate in a wide range of internships that can include magazines, newspapers, commercial studios, gallery and museums, and lab technicians.

Senior students enrolled in the Capstone Photography course or working on Independent Study exhibit their work at the Greensboro Project Space. 

After Graduation

Recent photography area majors and minors have found great success as freelance photographers, photo editors, stylists, newspaper and magazine photographers,  photojournalists, art critics and writers, and in gallery and museum jobs. Students have gone on to earn MFA as well as enter photo related masters programs. Most recently, former UNCG photography minor Kennedi Carter, a freelance photographer, photographed Beyoncé for the cover of British Vogue magazine, making her the youngest person to land the cover of Vogue Magazine.