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The Moopark College Photography Program is focused on the student ... the learner. It is our intention to meet your needs by providing the best possible technical foundation along with the richest possible aesthetic experiences.

Our focus is not on any one kind of photography ... we will work to give you the best opportunities and knowledge in fine art, documentary and commercial photography.

We provide a nourishing environment to facilitate your learning with highly qualified staff.

Bill Jay, teacher, writer, and photo historian has said: "The production of photographs is, in and of itself, an unsatisfying goal. Photography becomes yet another subject to learn, another three units, another class another possession; the final pieces of paper, the prints can become just another contribution to the visual pollution problem. Photography has no intrinsic value. The value is inherent in the photographer."

We want you to find your voice. We want you to find through our program an intense sense of being alive.

Lastly we want to meet the objectives that J. Krishnamurti expressed years ago:

"We must create immediately an atmosphere of freedom so that you can live and find out for yourself what is true, so that you become intelligent, so that you are able to face the world and understand it, not just conform to it, so that inwardly, deeply, psychologically you are in constant revolt; because it is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man or woman who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love; and you cannot inquire, observe, learn, you cannot be deeply aware, if you are afraid. So the function of education, surely is to eradicate, inwardly as well as outwardly, this fear that destroys human thought, human relationship and love."