Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within photography practice
You need to put together a solid body of photographic work that shows you understand how photographers work, and that you can take ideas and make them new or better as you develop your project. This means building a clear project plan, doing research, creating your own images, and refining them through multiple stages to show growth and original thinking.
You establish a clear brief, explore a topic visually with some original photography, analyse photographer models, and develop ideas with basic iteration—showing you can follow the process, but with limited transformation of ideas and inconsistent craft.
You develop a purposeful brief with clear scope, integrate photographer influences to extend your thinking, produce original images with consistent personal style, use multiple methods with control, and systematically refine your work through linked iterations that show progress and audience awareness.
You create a focused, ambitious brief, synthesise research to generate original concepts, produce distinctive visual language with fluent control, develop ideas iteratively with visible critique and reflection, regenerate images to increase complexity rather than reuse, and deliver fully resolved outcomes that show personal or cultural perspective and real-world context.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.