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My Career Journey by Lynne Adams This is my JPHB-101 photo one class picture. I am located in the circle. September 2008 Nine years ago (wait what?), I took my first steps onto the quarter mile and began my exciting, yet scary journey at Rochester Institute of Technology. Being young, uncertain, and even naive at […]

This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RITphoto! For this post I will be featuring a recent collaboration between the photojournalism and the advertising students at the New York State Special Olympics where RITphoto provided photo coverage for this special event. February 2018, the photojournalism program under the direction of Josh Meltzer partnered with the […]

RITphoto, led by Josh Meltzer, volunteered to help at the 2018 Winter Special Olympics. Josh shares how this came to be. In the fall of 2017, while looking for local organizations with whom my photojournalism students could find stories for their first multimedia video course, I reached out to the Genesee Regional office of the […]

RITphoto invited BFA senior Frankie Bonn to share his experiences at RIT, his work, and his future plans. Photo by Clay Patrick McBride What’s up. I’m Frankie Bonn.  I am a Rochester local. I am from the west side of the city – or as we like to call it – the best side.  I […]

March 2nd 2018, Adorama Camera, located in NYC invited RITphoto Professor Clay Patrick McBride  to participate in the  ASMP Master and Experts Panel to discuss his career, how he sees the future of the industry, and give advice to the next generation of image makers.  The panel was lead by Thomas Russell Kennedy Executive director at ASMP: American Society […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hello. It’s Ashley Crichton posting again. This post is part of a series of revealing what it is like to be a photography student at RIT. I recently interviewed Professor Angela Kelly the coordinator of the Photo Arts I & II class(required first year classes for all photo students). I spoke to her about how […]

Friday March 2, The exhibition Controlled Trauma will open. This exhibition features photographs that were taken in the operating rooms at the Rochester General Hospital(RGH). The photographs were made by students enrolled in a class available only at Rochester Institute of Technology. A budding partnership that started almost a decade ago between RIT & Rochester […]

RITphoto asked Prof Christye Sisson to share the work she and Prof. Ted Kinsman have been working on since June 2016. Falsified images have long been a part of photographic history. From spirit photography in the late 1800’s, to Stalin retouching out his deputies once they had fallen out of favor, photographs have been manipulated […]