Category: Inside the Classroom

We asked School Chair, Therese Mulligan PhD to write a post discussing the Scholarships the School offers. Every spring semester, the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences invites students to submit portfolios for consideration of one or more of the School’s many scholarships. A Scholarship Committee, consisting of faculty drawn from all School programs, evaluates […]

VISUAL MEDIA SEED PACKAGE DESIGN ROCHESTER COMMUNITY PROJECT with SHAWN DUNWOODY The FRUITBELT Project by Laurie OBrien Last year, students in my Elements of Visual Media Class PHVM-204 teamed up with Rochester Community Leader and Artist — Shawn Dunwoody.  Shawn is known for his community-led text murals that you see all over Rochester.  At the […]

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  

Every day, we are genuinely surprised with how terrific RITphoto students are. Bio: I was born in Mexico and grew up in Cancun. I lived in Cancun for 19 years until I came to RIT. Cancun is not the paradise everyone thinks it is. It can actually be a little boring if you don’t like […]

The Role of the Slit-Scan Image in Science and Art by Ted Kinsman The use of slit-scan photography is actually quite old. It is often called line-scan, photo finish, or streak photography. Slit scan photography has a rich and colorful history rooted in chemical analog photography. This technique is often used to visualize high-speed events […]

Jhadé Benitez was born and raised in Rochester, New York where he graduated from Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School in 2014. He is a fourth-year advertising photography student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and began working with photography in middle school, where he joined the Photo Club. It was all about teaching students […]

RITphoto Aerial Photography and Videography by Frank Cost The desire to see the world from above is deeply rooted in human experience. At the beginning of the present decade a breakthrough in technology initiated a new aerial seeing revolution. This was the multi-rotor drone, with four or more rotors, capable of carrying a camera and […]

Assignments for Teaching Photography by Michael Peres Pictured above are photography students from the Allendale Columbia School who visited RITphoto in June. We love hosting these students and enjoy their enthusiasm for the subject. During these visits we have often heard that teaching photography in high school can be challenging. Some schools do not have […]

Northlight Studio Portfolio Reviews Monday May 1, 2017 Shared by Clay Patrick McBride Images courtesy of  Nue Chanthavongsay​ RIT alum Chris Ehrmann  AKA “Goldteeth” returned to the RIT campus Monday May 1.  Ehrnamm is the Managing Director & Executive Producer of www.goldteethandco.com a NYC based photo agency that represents an outstanding stable of photographers, directors […]

#RITphoto is excited to share a post created by one of our students, Amber Estherpeace Doerr You can see more of Amber’s work on this link What is the Collaborative Composite Image? Composite is a term used to describe a digital manipulation or combination of elements. The collaboration in this course teams photography and three […]