This course provides a new understanding on how photography renovates itself throughout decades. By closely examining the evolution of digital and conceptual photography/ "art + commerce" era, we bring back and redefine traditional aesthetics, like framing, composition and tones, in classical photography and reproduce the new significance, and revisit it in technical aspects. We will cover new trends in photography; how different genres and definitions have been developing, and how digital renovation enable possibilities; affecting our way of seeing and modelling our trends.

Employing advanced technique, new media and wider content would expand aesthetics and our vocabulary in creative process. Through experiments and exercises, students would not only have the understanding of how photography would be in the next decade, but also acquire the knowledge of  technological advance and its interpretation  in contemporary photography and  digital  imaging display.

Travelling from the "birth of photography" through the "avant-garde" till the present digital and the pixel and megapixel evolution, definitions and boundaries become vague. Tastes changed; new media are conceived. Photographers are reshaping and redefining the map of imaging process and its  implication in the creative process. As we expand our vocabulary and methodology in imaging conceptualisation as well as employing revolutionary technique, new media and mobile content, we embrace photography as a creative means in cross discipline and evolving challenges.