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News: RITphoto Prize 2017 Winners Announced by Dan Hughes The #ritphotoprize2017 was a success for the 4th time this annual photography contest was held. It aims to discover, support, and promote the next generation of image makers. Open to all 7-12th grade and community college student photographers, the submissions and winners for the 4th annual […]

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 […]

Lily Lautenschlager is a third year biomedical photographic communications major at RIT. She is from Marysville, Ohio. She applied early decision to RIT and enrolled in the fall of 2015. Her goal  is to find her way into the ophthalmic photography field. Why did you choose RIT? I chose RIT after coming to the RIT  […]

Beki Tomasello Bio: My name is Beki Tomasello and I am from East Otto New York, a town just outside Buffalo New York. I graduated high school from the Springville Griffith Institute in 2013  and started my studies at Daemen College as a graphic design major. After one semester, I knew that that school (and […]

Catherine Zuromskis, PhD authors new essays by Therese Mulligan October 13, 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Zuromskis, who introduces two new essays on contemporary photography this fall season. Read a synopsis about each publication below and get reading to gain new insights into our evolving medium: “Crimes Seen and Unseen: Fantasies and Failures of Photographic […]

Olivia Arnone is a fourth-year fine art photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in suburban New Jersey.  She transferred to RIT after studying photography at Parsons, The New School in New York City. At RIT, she has continued to build her portfolio into a […]

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 […]

RITphoto invited fourth advertising photography student Julia Prisaznuk to share her story Julia Prisaznuk grew up in Lockport, New York, a town just north of Buffalo. She graduated Lockport High School in 2014 and enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology. She started as an Advertising and Public Relations major in the College of Liberal Arts, […]

Photojournalism student, Bryan Bennett​ made the front page of the New York Times sports section and was also featured in a full page image in Time magazine. The image was also widely used by other publications. (You can search his name and LeSean McCoy to find more use of this image). Bryan is working as […]