ARUCAD 
The Department of Photography is structured on the pressing problems in both visual and contemporary creative practices, generating research with an interdisciplinary and experimental approach.
The structure of the four-year BA (Hons) degree programme in Photography is built around helping students to achieve certain objectives through expressing and challenging themselves in an artistic and creative way.
The Department of Photography and Video at ARUCAD offers students an opportunity to participate in a four-year programme with its strong vision of interdisciplinary approaches.
The Department of Photography and Video provides you with extensive subject knowledge, technical expertise and opportunities to put what you learn into practice with work-related experience. ARUCAD will help you develop the technical skills ready for the working environment or a freelance career. You will develop research, organisational and writing skills that are transferrable to a wide range of other careers.
ZAURE RAKHIMZHANOVA
KazakhstanHaving visited ARUCAD, I realized that I want to study here. The sensitive attitude to each student, the reliability of the information presented, help at every step and the high professionalism of the academic staff. And on the territory of the university there is a very cozy and creative atmosphere where you want to return. I am very glad that I am student of this university.
BRIEFLY
- Medium of Instructions English
- Programme Duration 4 YEARS
- English Preparatory School YES
Academic Staff 
Asst. Prof. Dr. Elnaz Nasehi
Head of Department elnaz.nasehi@arucad.edu.trAfter receiving her bachelor degree in Cinema (Editing) from Art University of Tehran (2004), and her MA in Dramatic Literature from Tarbiat Modares University (2007), she started working as a director, editor and researcher in IRIB and made a series of episodic TV documentaries titled Future. She also had her first book, the Guide to Story-Telling for Computer Games, published in 2010. In 2018, she earned her doctoral degree in communication and media studies at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus. Her research interests include Neopatriarchal Iranian society/cinema, critical cultural studies and interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies.
Prof. Dr. Nur Onat
Dean of Faculty of Arts nur.onat@arucad.edu.trBorn in 1973 in Istanbul. She completed her primary and secondary education in Istanbul. In 1992 She began her art education at The Photography Department of Mimar Sinan University’s Fine Arts Faculty, graduated in 1996 and the same year she went to the USA for research on photography and contemporary art. She has got her master’s degree in 2003, her Ph.D. in 2005 and Associate Professor title in 2011. Since 1989 Onat has been using photography as an expressional medium and her field of study focusing especially on the link between photography and other art disciplines and contemporary photography. She has participated in numerous national and international art exhibitions and events, won international awards, taken roles in academic projects and published academic contributions. She continues to give lectures on contemporary photography and photography techniques.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Cengiz Bodur
cengiz.bodur@arucad.edu.trHaving completed his undergraduate and graduate studies on art and digital visualization at Hacettepe University, Cengiz Bodur has been working on his doctorate in the field of photography. He continues to work in the field of photography as an artist.
Programme Curriculum Coming soon.