Category: Student Features

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 […]

I was born and raised in Bucks County, PA. Growing up art surrounded me everywhere.  I made my way up to Rochester and I am currently a third year biomedical photography student. Why did you choose RIT? In high school, my college search started later than most kids. I was set on only applying to […]

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 […]

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 […]

photo by Sarah Sampson How I was selected The New York Times Portfolio Review is a free portfolio review that is,” An opportunity for people in the photographic community to meet, trade ideas, help each other- and have fun.”  I applied. The process was relatively simple. The NYT asks that you submit no more than […]

Bio: Jackie Spaventa is a third year Fine Art Photography student who is also studying art history, gender studies, and visual culture. She was born in the suburbs of Harrington Park ,New Jersey and initially came to RIT to study photojournalism. She quickly realized this was not the path for her and switched into fine […]

Bio:  Amber Kates is a third year Photographic and Imaging Technology student with a specialization in ophthalmic photography and a minor in history. She was born in Philadelphia, and decided to come to RIT for their Biomedical Photographic Communications program due to its mixture of both science and imaging. This program at RIT has not […]

Bio: Tom Brenner is a third year photojournalism student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His mother introduced him to photography when she gave him a disposable camera at the age of five. The gift was not for any special occasion, but rather to “babysit” Tom and he was hooked on photography after the first […]

  Meg Wells, a fourth year Visual Media student, was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally enrolled in the Advertising Photography program, sophomore year Meg found a love for graphic design that rivaled her passion for photography, so the Visual Media major made perfect sense. Meg has been involved in the CIAS Honors Program, […]

Bio: ​Paige Satterly is a 4th year visual media student from Cedar Rapids, Iowa with a minor in Business Administration and an emersion in Theatre. She started a photojournalism student and switched into visual media in the middle of her second year. This has given her the opportunity to explore graphic design in addition to […]