Author: Michael Peres

This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RIT Photo! For my next three upcoming posts, I am planning to showcase the facilities we use the Photo program. From my point of view, the entire photo world at RIT exists between the second and fourth floor of the Frank E. Gannett building.  I am going to […]

Photo by Clay Patrick McBride I coordinate the required first year photography class at RIT Photo. It is a big job and sometimes there might be up to six sections.  One of the suggested first assignments given to the class – all  sections – is the Scavenger Hunt assignment. Students in each section organize themselves […]

Bio: Joel Beckwith is a photographer –and creative – from Ithaca, New York. For the past six years, he has also been part of the pop-punk/alternative rock band Maple Hill, based out of his hometown. Although photography is his field of study, he has experience in audio production, film making, video editing, as well as […]

This is Ashley Crichton writing for the RIT Photo blog! For this post I wanted to share what it was like to be a student helper needed to make RIT Big Shot No 33. I was part of a team that David Turner directed needed to light the regions of the Big Shot’s composition that […]

It’s hard to believe its mid-terms. Holy smokes batman  🙂 RIT Photo loves to share student success and Justin Scalera certainly represents what can happen if you work hard and take advantage of opportunities. Justin will be photo-documenting the Kodak Research Park in the upcoming months for an Exhibition at Kodak. What a rare and […]

An Instant Photobook Celebrating the First Day of School by Frank Cost I was invited by Professor Angela Kelly to give a lecture to the first-year photo arts students during the fourth week of the fall semester. I had first met these students during their orientation at the end of August, and I took the […]

During the semester, we invite students to share their story. Every one of the RITphoto students have their own experiences because they all come from different places and have different interests. MacKenzie Crable is a fourth year fine art photography student. MacKenzie is from a small town outside Erie, Pennsylvania. She graduated Summa Cum Laude […]

We invited Gabriel Ponte-Fleary to share his RIT Photo experiences. Gabe is Deaf and is mainstreamed into the College of Art and Design. NTID enrolls more than 1200 students, many of whom frequently mainstream into all 9 of RIT’s colleges. We are thrilled to share Gabe’s successes as a student feature.   Bio Gabriel is […]

We invited fourth year Photo Sciences student Christian Lusardi to share some of his experiences at RITphoto. His answers are below My name is Christian Lusardi and I am a 4th year Imaging and Photographic Technology student from Ridgefield, Connecticut. I became interested in photography at age 9 when I first used a digital camera while […]

This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RITphoto! I am excited to be back posting as the School’s student blogger. Last week, I had a few meetings to lay out the semester’s goals for my posts and having just returned from the summer, I was curious about what other photo students had done with their […]