Students of Photography & Imaging at Tisch learn how to see, think, and take risks while finding their own creative voice.

The Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University is a four-year B.F.A. program situated in New York City. Centered on the making and understanding of images, DPI offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum with a grounding in the liberal arts. We embrace multiple perspectives, and our majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making, multimedia, new media, and post-photographic 3D simulation technologies. The studio work is accompanied by a wide-ranging critical studies curriculum. Our alums have gone on to work in a wide variety of creative fields. They are artists, documentary makers, journalists, fashion and editorial photographers, film makers, cinematographers, educators, writers, activists, craftspeople, coders, web designers, art directors, graphic designers, book designers and publishers, art historians, curators, art dealers, arts administrators, archivists, and more. 

Like all the departments at Tisch, our students come from all over the world with different outlooks and desires. We embrace those differences, and we are proud that there is no single defining look to our student work. We foster personal vision and offer a curriculum that is demanding but allows students the flexibility to take advantage of courses throughout the university. We want DPI to be a site of invention where our students are encouraged to think and see as well as engage with and understand the power of visual culture.  We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination and all forms of intolerance.

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Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Chair and University Professor

Events

© 2024 Gesche Würfel / VG Bild-Kunst and Artists Rights Society (ARS), Courtesy the artist and Tracey Morgan Gallery Photography & Imaging

Nov. 14

DPI Faculty Gesche Würfel's "The Absence and Presence of the Berlin Wall" Exhibition Opening

With this project, Würfel aims to locate spaces where the remnants of the Wall are still present, spaces where the physical division of the Wall has ceased to exist, and spaces where the mental construct of the Wall continues to persist.

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News

  • DPI Future Imagemakers Logo

    DPI Future Imagemakers 2025 Applications Now Open

    NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers is a social practice photography workshop for high school students in the Department of Photography & Imaging and part of the Tisch Future Artists Program. Free digital photography classes are offered every spring and taught by NYU faculty and students.

  • Ilona Maher by Elinor Kry

    DPI Student Elinor Kry Photographs Olympians for Teen Vogue!

    Department of Photography and Imaging student, Elinor Kry, was hired by Teen Vogue to shoot Olympic Media Summit portraits for Team USA. Kry captured four stars of the Paris Olympics.

  • HEAR US 2024 Headshots

    Presenting the 2024 HEAR US Cohort!

    The Tisch Initiative for Creative Research proudly announces the 2024 cohort of HEAR US (Honoring, Elevating, and Recapitalizing Underrepresented Stories) grantees.