RIT Summer Workshop Student Photos of the Campus

RITphoto began offering summer photography workshops for high school students in 2010. William Snyder –a professor in the school – led the first workshop, Photojournalism for High School students,  which has run for eight consecutive summers. In 2015, a new workshop,  entitled Digital Photography was offered. Both of these workshops play important roles in the School’s outreach to prospective students. The Digital Workshop is a collaboration of 6 faculty including Jenn Poggi, Dan Hughes, Frank Cost, Rachel Ferraro and Michael Peres. Katie Eftathiou an MFA alum has taught in the workshop in each of the workshop’s first three years.

Pictured above are the students in the 2018 Digital Photography workshop. Students in this group came from California, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and across New York State.

Each day during the week , students have a lecture and then are given an assignment. Monday afternoon’s lecture was about light. Contrast, color, direction, and other elements of this abstract but critical component to good photographs was explored. Following the lecture, students were sent out to the campus to make effective and interesting photographs where the light played an important role as the subject.

Shared below are some examples of student photographs of the campus in ways most of us had not seen. We hope you will enjoy the work of these aspiring photographers.

Photo by Wyatt Hyzer

Photo by Ceanna Anselm

Photo by Isabella Cole

Photo by Sydney Majka

Photo by Parker Simpson

Photo by Nicole Tsigaras

Photo by Kierstin Lorraine

Photo by Ceanna Anselm

Photo by Ceanna Anselm