Category: Faculty

There are seven sections of PHAR 101, the required first year photography class all RIT Photo students take. There are approximately 100 students in all of the sections. Each section was required to participate in the annual walk-through celebration organized during finals week. Preparing for the walk-through requires students to develop their own projects and […]

This year, the photojournalism faculty launched an exciting series of one credit weekend classes called mini-workshops or pop-up classes. The workshops were designed to bring new influences to the school and open up the curriculum to interdisciplinary approaches. It was our hopes that the workshops would add flexibility to our course offerings. We invited award-winning […]

We wanted to introduce assistant professor Joshua Rashaad McFadden to our community. Joshua joined the RIT Photo faculty in August. Prior to coming to RIT, he taught at Spelman College in Atlanta. Joshua teaches a variety of classes in advertising photography and others in the BFA photography program. Below is a portion of some work […]

Professor Willie Osterman joined the photography faculty in 1984. He taught Photo I for many years. At that time first year photography classes were 7 quarter credits per term and 21 credits for the year. RIT had more than 160 darkrooms and used 200 gallons of paper and film developers weekly. Now most of the […]

Workflow for Image Makers by Jayson Bimber Hi!  I am a visiting lecturer at RIT this year and an alumnus from the RIT Photo MFA program. One of the courses that I am teaching this semester is Workflow for Image Makers. This course is designed for graduate students in the photography program and is designed  […]

PHAP 337 – Production Photography Spring 2018 by Clay Patrick McBride Senior Lecturer, Advertising Photographer From the course syllabus “Production Photography focuses on the storytelling side of professional illustration. Assignments for the course will include recreating historical events, inventing futuristic scenes, creating believable period pieces. All of the assignments will have an emphasis on narrative solutions. […]

Members of the RITphoto community have been serious contributors to the Imagine festival for 11 years.  The RIT campus produced  a record 438 exhibits this year. Shared below are a number of snapshots of members of the RITphoto community including faculty, staff, students showcasing their displays. Even though it rained the entire day, no one’s […]

Magazine Mondays This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RITphoto! One of my favorite parts about the RITphoto is the community that exists within the School. Magazine Monday is an event started this year to help enhance our community.   It was started by one of the advertising professors, David Turner. Every Monday, David puts […]

Twelve Years of Instant Photobooks by Frank Cost James E. McGhee Professor School of Photographic Arts & Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology Twelve years ago, on Valentine’s Day 2006, I was riding in the back of a taxicab in the South Indian City of Chennai and I wanted to capture a video clip of the […]

Still Visible After Gezi – part of the exhibition Wanderlust, University of Buffalo Galleries, & Do you know this tree? Visual Studies Workshop Press (2017). by Roberley Bell  Professor Fine Art In 2010, as a Fulbright scholar,  I lived in Istanbul, Turkey. A project that began accidentally while there has now become an exhibition and […]