Kickstart your photography journey with a hands-on diploma designed to build your technical, creative, and professional skills from the ground up. You’ll explore a range of photographic genres while developing your own style and area of interest. Through practical projects and client-based work you’ll learn how to capture and enhance images, work with lighting and use both digital and analogue processes. You’ll also gain essential professional skills such as planning shoots, managing workflow, budgeting, invoicing and presenting your work to an audience.
Study options
Full Time
(1 Year)
Tuition fees
NZ$26,600.00 (US$ 15,867)
per year
Access to Student Health and Counselling - 215.00
Start date
February 2027
Venue
Dunedin Campus
Forth Street,
Dunedin,
Otago,
9016, South Island, New Zealand
Entry requirements
For international students
To enter Otago Polytechnic's undergraduate certificates, diplomas and degrees, you need to have achieved a secondary school qualification that is equivalent to New Zealand's NCEA levels (National Certificate of Educational Achievement).
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.