Author: Michael Peres

– What are you doing professionally? I am an assistant professor of photography and intermedia at the Herron School of Art and Design which is in the professional art school of Indiana University. I split my time teaching contemporary approaches to fine art photography and pursuing creative research at the intersections of art and science. […]

RIT Photography is excited to share an update on our next renovation. The School is housed in the Frank E Gannett building and it was built in 1968. At the time, it had 151 darkrooms. Over the course of the last decade many of these darkrooms became dormant. Two summers ago, 20 darkrooms were renovated […]

This past May with the end of the 2014-2015 academic year, #ritphoto said goodbye to three esteemed faculty members: Doug Rea, Tom Zigon and Steve Diehl. Each had long careers at RIT and in the School. They all introduced new thought and practice into the curriculum. This is especially true since each in their own […]

Each April, #RITphoto  selects full time BFA, BS and MFA students to receive awards and scholarships.  A committee of faculty comprised of all School disciplines reviews the applicant portfolios. After weighing both the collected work and students’ personal statements of creative and academic intent, winners are identified. More than ten awards and scholarships are granted each […]

Confessions of A Snowflake Photographer – Professor Michael Peres Even today, it remains a mystery to me why some things happen. Everything starts out at its beginning and then over time things change. Somethings improve and some things go away. You never know what a chance meeting will lead to. Snowflake from February 1, 2015 […]

by Frank Cost This spring semester I will be teaching a new elective course in aerial photography and videography. My preparation for this course began more than 50 years ago, when I began to accompany my father to a model airplane flying field located on a farm on the Onondaga Nation reservation south of Syracuse, […]

What are doing professionally? After graduating from RIT in May of 1986, I started at North Shore Hospital in September of that year. Healthcare has changed dramatically since then and single hospitals are few and far between. Our department has grown and changed over the past 29 years. Presently, we provide photography and video productions […]

Bio: Amanda Yanez is from Ventura, California. She is a 4th year Advertising Photography student and will be graduating May 2015. Her work is focused  towards  fashion and portraiture with an emphasis on recurring themes of beauty intertwined with surrealism. What was your most challenging assignment as a photography student? [A.Y.] Each assignment I have […]

How has your education helped you in your career since graduation? For the past 20 years I’ve been a strategic planner in advertising. My education from RIT had a tremendous and valuable impact on the work I’ve been doing since I earned a BS in Biomedical Photographic Communications in 1987. Beyond theory and technique, I […]

Bio: Daniela Solera nació en Costa Rica, en 1992. Es estudiante de cuarto año en Imaging and Photographic Technology y espera graduarse en el 2015. Al graduarse, espera enfocarse en el área de image quality o trabajar en la industria de impresión. El ser estudiante internacional, ha sido una experiencia diferente, pero que vale la […]