Category: Outside of the Classroom

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 […]

April 14th and 15th 2018, eight photography students and adjunct photography professor Don Cochran visited two Frank Lloyd Wright homes and the Flight 93 Memorial in PA. On Saturday morning, they toured the Darwin Martin complex in Buffalo, NY  and  then five students drove to Southwest PA and experienced 80˚ weather. Rochester, N.Y.’s winter has […]

At the end of summer, the RIT Big Shot was invited to participate in a project entitled,  Re-energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass. Re-Energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass was conceived to be a public art project, exhibition and community-wide reflection commemorating the 200th anniversary of Douglass’ birth. Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) would be […]

Alumni are always welcome to share their story and 2017 grad Katie DiFrancesco was interested. After Katie successfully finished her courses in May 2017, applied to, and was invited to work in the White House. She shared her story below. Biography:| Katie DiFrancesco graduated May 2017 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Photographic and Imaging […]

RITphoto is excited to introduce Ashley Crichton, a second year advertising photography student. Ashley will be working for the School as a student blogger.   Ashley wrote, I will be writing about my experiences as a student at RIT. I want to explore how the school has developed its programs that leads students through a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Friday May 5, 2017 Lindsay Sisting and Luke Copping visited RIT and shared their expertise leading a regional assistants workshop for the RIT community. Topics covered included self-promotion, invoicing, bookkeeping and taxes. Also discussed included  what gear to always bring to a job. Copping is the Chair of ASMP National Board of Directors and commercial […]

The RITphoto faculty is a big and diverse group. We love the variety of things they do out of the classroom. On May 7, many will be participating in the Imagine RIT 2016 festival showcasing what they or their students do. There are more than thirty-five and you can read about them by following this […]

March 2016 Representatives from Sony recently visited #ritphoto to showcase camera gear for still and moving images, and related equipment. Students and faculty from the Photo School and the School of Film and Animation had the opportunity to get their hands on the abundance of equipment on display outside the Third Floor Cage. Sony reps […]