The University of Florida offers an innovative blend of provocative and experimental approaches to photography in the traditional setting of a large, diversified state research university. As one of the most established programs of graduate and undergraduate study in photography in the United States, we draw on substantial faculty strengths in photography as well as unusual expertise in the broad field of contemporary visual inquiry.

Our orientation encourages the student to develop his or her personal artwork through a constructive dialogue that builds on the particular strengths of the student, the faculty and the institution at large. We especially encourage work that engages the future trajectories of photography and related practices (such as electronic media, installation, and performance) and which develops out of an informed inquiry into the histories, theories, and practices of photography and culture as its has been understood traditionally.

The program also stresses questions of dissemination and audience. We support the utilization of museum and gallery locations but strongly emphasize the creation of alternative venues and public space. We understand operations in public space to include not only the material production of site-specific installation work, but also interventions in the burgeoning field of electronic communication.

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