Category: Facilities

So, what is this magical place photo geeks refer to as the School’s cage? The cage is the camera gear heaven students visit to check out (borrow) all sorts of equipment. This includes cameras, lenses, flashes and lighting equipment, tripods, and many other camera accessories. CAD and Photo students are allowed to check out equipment […]

The School receives a number of inquiries each year about what equipment is necessary for first classes. We produced this short video to overview these important pieces of equipment. If you have additional questions, please email us at: spastour@rit.edu  

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 […]

The weather may be freezing outside, but here at the photo cage things are heating up! We have a few new items to try out. We have a new version of the Leica S2 body, type 006. This is an upgrade from the previous S2 we had. Be sure to give it a try!   […]

In July, 2014 the School began renovation of the Francis Chemistry lab. It was a huge undertaking and now we are so very excited with what has been accomplished in the months that have  followed.  What a transformation! More than 50 years of analog technology was removed creating a modular and flexible space for studying […]

DATELINE: RIT Photo is happy to announce the continuation of an exciting new major: Cat Photography! Get an up close and personal view of this new major and realize the thrills and chills that come from photographing our feline friends. So get out the camera and cat toys! Explore what this new major has to […]

The William Harris Gallery, formerly known as the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) gallery, presents its first exhibition in its newly renovated space on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology. The State of Things, a collaborative exhibition by RIT senior fine art photography students, opens with a reception from 5 to 7 […]

The renovation of Harris Gallery is progressing nicely. It started in July and is entering the final phases of the process. The gallery – housed in the Frank E. Gannett building – has been an integral part of the curriculum and community since 1969 when the new campus opened. SPAS started offering photography classes in […]

Production is ramping up and one of the hottest areas here in our college is in our very own Imaging Lab.  Our lab, called “The Imaging Systems Lab” is an area that many students long to work in, and one advantage to being a student here in SPAS, is you can be hired to work […]

It is now the beginning of the third week of our fall semester, something new for us as we used to be on the quarter system.  We may now have a longer period for classes to run, but that is not causing the student body to slow down any, our facilities are busy as ever […]