The primary problem in the fields of arts and professional education in our country is that the education is not associated with the necessity of productıvi­ty. The starting point of the Department of Photography founded in Marmara University in 1994 is to search out the possibilıties to realize training in communication with the pho­tography industry in Turkey. For that reason, a particular care is set up to realize that connec­tion and meanwhile a consider­able support is obtained. For the time being there is a Board of Advisors who are representing Turkısh photography arts and sector who are to dis­cuss the directions of the edu­cation. 71ıe undergraduate pro­gram covers 4 years and Masters degree 2 years. Since the overall aim is to help students grow into qualified artists and set up the relation and counter relation between the photography and the other arts and also to foster the stu­dents with technical and aes­thetic knowledge, the photog­raphy techniques and photog­raphy aesthetics and also gen­eral culture are taught in the first and second years. In the third and fourth years studies are carried on in expertness in photography and in the second semester of the senior year, students prepare their gradua­tion projects on a subject pro­posed by the student and approved by the jury. Department of Photography arranges exhibitions, shows, discussions, panels, sympo­siums to continue and promote Turkı"sh Photograph Art. In addition, the department also activates in the field of photog­raphy literature and it reaches not only the students but also photography clubs and ama­teurs. These activities are wel­comed with deep interest. Assuming that its inconvenient to remain deprived of a muse­um of any art branch,and to convey the relics of the past to the future generations, the Photography Department con­tinues the necessary structural actnı ties for the foundation of “Turkısh Photography Museum.” The interested amateurs are provided with theoretical infor­mation and also shooting and dark room techniques in the workshops at the weekends. Through these activrties, the Photography Department not only instructs the students but also tries to attract the attention of the people to photography art.

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