Photography is a persuasive, powerful medium with a rich history of contributing to cultural knowledge and enabling people to communicate their ideas. Photographers create images for a variety of contexts ranging from commercial to journalism to fine art. Powerful photographs, regardless of intended context, share in common an excellence of design and craft and compelling content/concepts.

- Advertising photographer
- Aerial photographer
- Architectural/historical photographer
- Audio-visual producer
- Cinematographer
- Commercial photographer
- Custom printer

- Designer
- Digital artist
- Engineering photographer
- Fine art photographer
- Forensic photographer
- Gallery director
- Illustrator
- Museum administrator

- News photographer
- Photo archivist
- Photo editor
- Photofinisher
- Photojournalist
- Scientific/medical photographer
- Studio photographer
SCAD graduates are in demand at the United States' most recognized companies. Each year, more than 175 companies and organizations visit SCAD to meet and recruit our students and alumni. More than eight out of 10 SCAD 2008 alumni surveyed had been placed in jobs in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Some employers of SCAD photography alumni
- Accenture
- BusinessWeek
- Cisco Systems Inc.
- Food & Wine magazine
- Hewlett Packard
- Johnson & Johnson
- Martha Stewart Living
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Geographic
- Nike
- New York Times
- Orlando Sentinel Communications
- Paramount Pictures
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Time Life Warner Bros.
- Wired
- Yahoo!
- Zimmerman Advertising