The Master program focuses on four project areas: preparation of a photographic exhibition, designing a photo book/magazine, realisation of a video-photo project and managing of a corporate project. Each of these areas is treated in an integrated way with courses that allow the development of interdisciplinary professional skills: technical, methodological and cultural. Great importance is given to the development of projects facing creative problems in an interdisciplinary way, also through team working; together with the teachers, students will participate in real productions: every year research and experimentation are united in the elaboration of one or more projects-events in collaboration with a network of partner companies and institutions.
The curriculum is divided into two parts. In the first part, attention is focused on theoretical-scientific and technical disciplinary skills, while the second focuses on the introduction of design project elements. Various course types are foreseen: project workshops, technical-methodological laboratories, theoretical courses, short seminars, meetings with external guests and guided visits.
The objective of the project workshops is to transfer and put into practice profession skills connected with the production of photographic images, their exhibition, archiving, transfer, and use for editorial, advertising and commercial purposes. In the laboratory sessions, the technologically advanced equipment conditions simulate a real studio, from the presentation of a “brief” for elaborating ideas, to the development of project and the delivery of a prototype. The technical-methodological laboratories aim at introducing the tools used for design and production of works connected with the project areas, such as providing basic skills of photographic practice with analogical and digital tools. The laboratories are integrated at interdisciplinary level, in order to offer coordinated and organic support for carrying out the projects.
The theoretical courses involve critical specialisation in issues related to history of photography, image theory, mass media, as well as managerial and economical aspects of the sector. Short seminars and meetings with artists and professionals, organized in collaboration with other NABA Master programs and with the initiatives of FORMA, allow the participants to acquire a broad vision of the international scene. Guided visits to research centres and performance and audio-visual production, publishing houses, theatres, artists’ studios, museums and contemporary art galleries enrich the program that also foresees participation in one or more international festivals and conferences in addition to all the exhibition activities and meetings promoted by FORMA.

Internship and Professional Training
Throughout the year students will acquire a number of methods and techniques in the extra-curricular Personal Training Courses, which will be useful to them in the working environment: designing professionalism, budgeting, presentation techniques, practice in MS Excel and Power Point, team building, realizing a portfolio, represent the modules through which the tools aimed at facilitating the students’ entrance in the job market will be acquired and developed.
A part of the study process is a period of internship, that may be undertaken at a carefully selected company or institution, including publishing houses, editorial offices, photo agencies, archives, museums, galleries, photographic studios. During this period students will be able to see the application of what they have learnt and establish professional connections with extremely important and strategic production and creative realities. It is also possible to participate in an intensive laboratory at NABA, within the frame of a project co-production between NABA and partner companies and institutions. This second type of Internship allows sudents to develop an entire project with all necessary technological tools at their disposal; to experiment professionally with a real customer and to work in a multidisciplinary team as happens in a working context.

Evaluation
The program foresees individual evaluation at the end of each design workshop and every cycle of theoretical lessons and laboratories, checking the different parameters and monitoring the development of the student’s design and technical skills, as foreseen in the curriculum. The Master program ends with a final exam, open to the public, where the student will present a final project and a portfolio, showing the intermediary stages of the single projects carried out during the course.