Student Feature – Madison McKenna

Madison McKenna was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992. She recently graduated from RIT with a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration, majoring in Fine Art Photography. Her work involves collections in terms of memory and the autobiography, and stories that a place can tell through visual artifacts and clues. She will spend the next year […]

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Extracurricular Activities – Photojournalism workshop

Photo by Sarah Ann Jump July 14-18, 2014 the fourth workshop for high school students was lead by Professor William Snyder. Similar to the others, day one was very successful. Sponsored in part by Nikon, the students had a very busy day learning about cameras, lenses, and flash photography. The technical lectures will lead up […]

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Faculty Feature: Professor Willie Osterman

Willie Osterman is a professor of fine art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Willie has been teaching, researching and working as a professor and artist at RIT since 1984. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in photography with a minor in art history from Ohio University. He earned his Master of […]

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Resources: RIT Photo Store

RIT Photo Store expands its definition of imaging – and its business by Kevin Marks Very few Universities have a photography store right on their campus but RIT does. The RIT Photo Store faces similar challenges to any brick and mortar retail business. It does have the advantage of being located in the heart of […]

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In the Classroom – Architecture Photography

Architecture Field Trip by Don Cochran  At the end of April, the RIT architectural photography class went to Buffalo and Toronto.  They had a wonderful tour of the interior Darwin Martin house ( Frank Lloyd Wright ) but were unable to photograph because of weather. On the way to Toronto, they stopped first in Mississauga […]

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Alumni feature: Underwater Photography

Underwater Photography by  Yasmeen Smalley When I think back to this last time last year, I remember feeling a combination of fear and excitement. It was a cocktail of nerves felt by most graduating seniors. At the time I was finishing up two degrees, Photojournalism and Biomedical Photographic Communications, and was hesitant to enter the […]

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