Higher

Photography · Higher

Camera skills, image creation and photographic analysis and appreciation.

The course

What Photography is about

Photography is both technical and creative: camera and exposure control, lighting and composition, and a portfolio of your own images developed from research through to final prints.

Where it leads

What it offers you

A portfolio-building course that supports art, design, media and commercial photography study and work.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

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2025

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2024

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2023

3 files

2022

3 files

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Photography Higher on sqa.org.uk.

All Photography levels