Formation of the professional culture of students-designers by means of photography as a modern form of art

The professional culture depends on the curriculum and organization of educational process in high school. It is devoted to formation of professional qualities of a designer, which include general, humanitarian, technical, economic, and art areas of education. The tendency of high school educational process is directed to the development of general, professional and art culture. Photo art is seen as one of the ways of practical language acquisition of modern visual culture at the first stage of education. Photo is seen as a means of creative self-representation of an artistic outlook on reality, changes and phenomena undergoing in a society. It is also considered as a means of personal attitude to these phenomena and a way of social interaction on the next stage of educational process in high school.