An industry-focused professional photography program
With its entrepreneurial focus, this program prepares you for a dynamic professional photography career in communications. You’ll create conceptually and visually compelling still and moving images, and explore photography's potential in existing and emerging fields. Through your studies and a hands-on internship, you’ll be prepared for work in the expanding world of image-based storytelling.

Work with the latest photography technologies
Our equipment and facilities are unmatched in Canada, and among the best in the world. Our studios are outfitted with state-of-the-art DSLR, medium format digital and video cameras. Students also work with advanced strobe and LED studio/location lighting. Sheridan’s labs have advanced displays and printers, the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite and Capture One Pro software.

Benefit from Sheridan's outstanding industry reputation
For over 50 years, Sheridan's Bachelor of Photography has maintained an outstanding reputation and close relationship with photographic industries. This translates into meaningful internship positions and opportunities for graduates. These relationships also yield regular guest lectures, portfolio reviews and mentorships, as well as judging involvement in our graduate exhibitions.

Additional information
Sheridan's Honours Bachelor of Photography program provides many opportunities for you to immerse yourself in image-based communications and creative visual problem solving. Through hands-on project work you will learn to manage problems and issues; research, collect, and evaluate ideas; synthesize and express concepts and communicate effectively with diverse audiences.

Throughout the program, you'll study the following areas:

Product advertising in studio and on location
Portraiture, fashion and food photography
Editorial and documentary photography
Architectural and industrial photography
Emerging photographic applications
Visual storytelling with still and moving images
Histories and theories of photography
Business of photography, including social media, branding and marketing
Equipment provided and additional costs
Students do not need to own camera equipment, as all project work in the curriculum is produced using equipment provided by Sheridan. Students are issued a full-frame DSLR camera kit for their exclusive use from September to the end of April for each of the first two years.

In years 3 and 4 they choose from a wide array of high-end digital video, DSLR and medium format digital cameras to produce projects. Students are also not required to own a laptop computer, as program computer labs are set up for post-production and academic work.

Additionally, the program features fully-equipped lighting studios and professional computer labs. A variety of accessories such as portable hard drives, Intuos Wacom tablets and other accessories required by the curriculum are given to students to keep.
Students also receive Adobe’s Creative Cloud software for home use for the length of their studies at Sheridan.

You should plan to spend $500 per year in supplies (e.g. printing and mounting costs; props for studio and location shoots).

Internship
The internship is a distinctive element of Sheridan’s photography program. This 420-hour placement is completed in the summer between years 3 and 4, locally or internationally, in one or more professional work settings. Students work with and learn from a variety of industry professionals, gaining valuable experience towards their photography career. Internship preparation and guidance is provided by Sheridan’s Career Centre.

Program length
This four-year photography degree program includes eight academic semesters and one 14-week internship at the end of Year 3. The program will provide the degree-level credential typical of photography internationally.

Location
Sheridan Honours Bachelor of Photography courses are held at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.

Sheridan has been granted a consent by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to offer this degree for a seven-year term starting June 12, 2017 and subject to renewal thereafter. Application to the Ministry for renewal of the consent is a prescribed and cyclical requirement for degree programs at all Ontario Colleges. Sheridan will ensure that all students admitted to the Honours Bachelor of Photography program during the period of consent will have the opportunity to complete the program within a reasonable time frame. Credentials earned during the period of consent remain valid, even if Ministry consent to offer the program is withdrawn in the future. Prospective students are responsible for satisfying themselves that the program and the degree will be appropriate to their needs (e.g. acceptable to potential employers, professional licensing bodies, or other educational institutions).

The entrepreneurial mindset developed in Sheridan's Honours Bachelor of Photography program prepares graduates to work in diverse areas of photographic practice. Graduates begin their photography careers as assistants, retouchers or freelance photographers, and then work their way into full-time employment or operate their own studios.

Sample employment areas

Advertising photography
Wedding and family photography
Fashion and editorial photography
Retouching and post-production
Studio and brand photography
Producing and studio management
Documentary photography
Social media management