Study Abroad in Italy for College Credits

Courses of photography and new media in Florence, Italy

Photography school in Italy

The reasons for a choice

The Accademia Italiana is considered a leading Institute on a European level in the field of art and design.
It is thus natural to offer, within the programs proposed, a photography school operating in Florence.
It is also natural, for an art and design school like the Accademia Italiana that is always attentive to the innovation and to research, to give an experimental approach to this discipline.

For this reason the photography course includes the study of the “new media”.
This is one of the many differences between the Accademia Italiana and the traditional schools of photography. The philosophy at the basis of this program of studies (Course of photography and new media) is that of global experimentation of the visual languages.

The profession of photographer has widened to include other disciplines so that he has become a true creative operator who knows how to communicate with the image, giving personalized answers to the needs of a society in evolution and to an international marketplace.
For the Accademia Italiana this is the mission strongly linked to our contemporaneity.

Speaking to the students of the Accademia Italiana during an encounter organized by the school, the famous photographer Oliviero Toscani answered to those asking his advice: “Don’t be afraid to have doubts and of being insecure because it is exactly the times of major uncertainty that corresponds to the moment of maximum creativity”.

This declaration can partly express the concept that is at the basis of the teaching philosophy proposed by the photography school.
The best ideas, in fact, are born from the unceasing research that occurs when our certainties are placed in doubt and the results acquired are taken as we go on towards a process of experimentation.

For this reason the school, in addition to giving to the student the technical and cultural basis, also promotes the birth of new stimuli, even unusual ones that become research and then become specific projects.
The school represents a moment of growth but then each single student will make the final choices on the basis of his or her own aptitudes.

The “maximum creative freedom” must always be accompanied by the knowledge acquired. This knowledge must include, together with photography other areas pertinent to art, to design and to culture. This is the formative mission to which the Accademia Italiana dedicates its forces.