Category: Alumni

Bio: Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Chloe learned to dive in the cold, low visibility quarries and rivers close to home. A 2011 RIT graduate, her passion for photography shifted to documenting aquatic life when she fell in love with diving during an underwater photo elective in the summer of 2010. Shortly before the […]

Andy Batt is a commercial photographer, specializing in sports marketing, famous athletes, and entertainment for advertising agencies, corporate direct and editorial publications. He works out of his Portland studio, and flies wherever the job takes him. When he’s not working, he’s cooking, mountain biking or watching really bad movies with his friends. What are you […]

Bio: Lizz Thabet is a multimedia artist originally from Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2010, she moved to New York to pursue her BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she studied photography and visual culture. Lizz’s work addresses the intersection between language, experience, and images. Incorporating ideas from trauma studies, cyborg theory, and visual culture, […]

      My name is Matt Burkhartt and I am a member of the SPAS photojournalism class of 2014 and currently a photo intern at the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper in Western Massachusetts.           Prior to studying at RIT I had attended a film school in New York City for […]

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 […]

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 […]

We asked David Neff a 1990 graduate to share his story on our Blog. David Neff  was born in the late 1960’s in  suburban Philadelphia. He survived RIT until 1990 when he jumped into the world of commercial photography upon graduation.  He photographs people in a playful, bold style.  He bikes all around town and […]

RIT Photography reached out to successful alum Jana Cruder. We asked her to tell us about her career since graduation. Here is what she shared. Sorry it took so long to create this post. Just when you think all planes have wi-fi,  you learn international planes do not. So all the work I anticipated getting […]

What are doing professionally? I am a designer and production coordinator for the worlds largest car sharing company, Zipcar. I work with the in-house marketing team where I design anything from an email format to mini-campaigns. I retouch images and help brainstorm and develop national campaigns. I also find better ways to implement successful and […]

I’ve been a professional advertising photographer for the last 35 years, and although I studied Mechanical Engineering at RIT, my education there continues to be the foundation of my career. It was at RIT that I was first introduced to the idea that image making could be a way of life. It was at RIT […]