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This site exhibits final assignment work produced by students in the Uses of Photography studio that ran as part of the Bachelor of Communication Media program at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia in semester two, 2023.

The studio began with this prompt for its participants:

What is a photograph now? What are some of the diverse uses to which photographs are put by both professional and non-professional image-makers? How might an expanded literacy around the still image be useful for your media practice regardless of whether you aspire to be a film and television maker, social media producer, cultural critic or radio practitioner? 

The studio explored these questions over 12 weeks through cycles of making, looking at, reading, thinking and talking about a range of various kinds of photography that included portraiture, street photography, social media forms, production stills, photo books, studio-based, ethnography/documentary, expanded photography, fine art and promptography.