Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Photography
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Photography is not all about cameras, lights, and tripods. Photography is about people. It documents life, captures history and evokes emotions by telling stories through a photographer’s lens. Pursuing an online bachelor's degree in photography can help you capture the dream of doing what you love for a living.

Program Highlights

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Online BFA Degree Requirements

For independent, self-motivated learners, RMCAD’s online photography classes are the perfect way to get the education you need to become a successful photographer. The curriculum is designed to not only help students develop the important technical photography skills they need, but also cover the business aspects of photography. More importantly, it helps students develop the knowledge on how to create compelling portfolios that are a direct reflection of their unique vision!

CLASSROOM TOOLS

A photographer must be equipped with the right tools. This doesn’t necessarily mean equipment. RMCAD’s online photography program prepares students by teaching photography fundamentals such as:

Lighting
Digital imaging
Portraiture
Post-production editing

To make sure your photography education is more than just technical, RMCAD’s curriculum spans a broad range of courses that allow students to explore the more conceptual side of photography.

PHOTOGRAPHY CAREERS

Graduates with RMCAD’s Online Bachelor’s Degree in Photography are launching exciting careers as:

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The Online Photography Program is focused on helping you develop the kind of portfolio that gives you a running start at becoming an established photographer after graduation. While you learn the essential skills necessary to create photographs that attract and dazzle your clientele, you’ll be instructed by practicing industry professionals who will help you achieve your vision of the photographer you want to be!

Throughout the Online Photography Program, you’ll experience the kind of collaboration and feedback from our online instructors that allows you to blossom from an ordinary “picture-taker” into an exceptional photographer – and artist.

Photographers are not here to show people what they can already see. They are here to give them experiences they would otherwise not have experienced and to preserve moments that would otherwise be forgotten. Become the best instrument possible with RMCAD by your side.

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Get to know our Grads

Bethany Pena

Class of 2021 / Interior Design

A lot of my professors were really good at giving us hands-on experience and I think it is really important that our professors have the experience and know what the field is actually like. My RMCAD education really helped me know how the design process really works from start to finish.

Sarah Fox

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

With my collection I wanted to make something a little bit more expressing. I like how the program helps you develop in different areas of the field in the industry.

Sydney Sais

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

I was influenced by women in power who were not afraid to be feminine and sexual with their clothing. I will be the first kid in my immediate family to graduate college. It’s really a big deal and it’s really exciting.

Madalyn Gaydos

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

I found this school and this is awesome. I don’t have to move anywhere and it’s all online!

Svitlana Pugh

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

My hope is for the new generation! The hope that coming through the darkness, they grow and make a difference in their culture.

Michele Hart

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

My best advice to Veterans that want to pursue their art degree is just to go for it! It’s kind of intimidating because art school is a whole different world and it kind of pushes you out of your comfort zone, but it’s all worth it!

Michael Sullivan

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

We were all there to help challenge and push each other, because as this program grows and progresses.

Libby Shaw

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

Having the opportunity to design this senior collection has been amazing. The thing I love the most about being a Fashion Design student at RMCAD is the freedom to explore my interests and the tight-knit community really allowed me to develop genuine relationship with my instructors.

Kai Boonthanom

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

I think it was great the school let me have complete creative freedom in terms of discovering my aesthetic and exploring different avenues that I really wanted to tap into.

Damaria Moye

Class of 2022 / Fashion Design

What I love most about being a Fashion Design student at RMCAD is that it’s been a humbling experience to meet other creatives even outside the fashion program. I think we have a lot of world class creatives.

Austyn Lewis

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

For incoming students to RMCAD and the Fashion Department, I give the advice of: say yes. Say yes to every opportunity that you can get. Go for it even if its overwhelming and then also ask questions and be bold. Ask if you can do the crazy things. They will say yes.

Melissa Grando

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

What I love a lot about RMCAD is that they definitely prepared you for a lot of things.

Mikela Greene

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

What I love most is that I got to do it. I was an online student and if it wasn’t for the online program, I don’t think I would have been able to do this.

Amaya Leverette

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

I am influenced by everything… I think that I can relate to anything and anybody. So, I’m always willing to do something different.

Christopher Sweetwood

Class of 2017 / Game Art

RMCAD played an important step in my artistic development and my career. My instructors at RMCAD taught me the skills and software I use on a daily basis in my profession. Alumni Services helped me get into contact with industry professionals helping me get my start in game art.

Irene Skupsky

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

I design for the powerful woman who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.

Anna Vo

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

My only advice is: be confident and no matter what mistakes you made just keep going and you will go through it.

TJ Howell

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

This is my final hoorah so it’s very important that this kind of shows who I am as a designer and what my aesthetic and who I am most importantly.

Haley Long

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

What makes me proud to be a RMCAD graduate is the fact that I’ve been challenged so incredibly much here and that it’s actually been applicable outside of RMCAD.

Candace Feren

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

I’m proud to be a RMCAD graduate because there’s so many amazing staff here. They support you, challenge you and really push you to get where you need to be.

Mark Fitzsimmons

Class of 2018 / Fine Arts

RMCAD gave me the space to experiment. All of the instructors I had let me take not only what I wanted but what I needed from the class I was in.

Gregory Hayes

Class of 2006 / Fine Arts

Ten years later I’ve developed a skill from my professor’s random act of kindness. That little bottle was the start of me dripping paint.

Jenny Morgan

Class of 2003 / Fine Arts, Illustration, Illustrative Design

RMCAD was really influential for me, the teachers I had were extremely impactful and I still keep in touch with them. I think a smaller school like RMCAD can be really beneficial in terms of making connections and keeping those connections.

Kevin Tydlaska

Class of 2017 / Photography

“RMCAD did the biggest thing for me that every artist needs to experience—it checked my ego…you’re always going to learn, and someone always has something to teach you.”

Tya Alisa Anthony

Class of 2015 / Photography

My message is to be a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination back to center.

Daniel Chavez

Class of 2006 / Interior Design

A lot of my technical experience is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

Rebecca Kaufman

Class of 2002 / Interior Design

Rocky Mountain was one of the first colleges I looked at – loved the program, loved the area, and I never looked back.

Paul Sullivan

Class of 2003 / Illustration

There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.

Lindsay Gruetzmacher

Class of 2010 / Illustration

RMCAD was great because it gives you a guideline for how to work in teams. How to create artwork for someone else, not just yourself.

Phil Montaño

Class of 1988 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

You can come back here and know they’re going to have the curriculum and programs you need to succeed.

Nick Spriggs

Class of 2003 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.

Daniyil Onufrishyn

Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

It [RMCAD] taught me a lot about being a designer and being a better thinker – being more well-rounded.

Bill Gillies

Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

I wanted to immerse myself in an environment that would teach me, and that was what RMCAD was offering.

Dalton Frizzel

Class of 2016 / Fine Arts

That moment was when everybody started to understand my work without me having to say anything, that was a moment where I started to feel like I was connecting with something.

Nina Caballero

Class of 2017 / Art Education

I think what’s really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person’s face light up.

Brian Nugent

Class of 2004 / Animation

What’s really nice about the RMCAD community is that it is a community. We’re all good friends and we keep in contact. A lot of the people that I was here with are working in the industry, so that says how important those relationships are.

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