From the Classroom: High Speed Ballistics Photography at RIT

Written By Ted Kinsman Photographic Sciences email Ted This picture records a .22 caliber bullet moving at 1,200 feet per second as it travels through an apple in the classic high-speed picture.  Photograph by Nasser Albahri. The high-speed imaging class, offered by the photographic sciences department, has a long standing tradition of photographing bullets in […]

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RITphoto PJ students collaborate with Rochester PBS station

Submitted by Meredith Davenport For the past month, RIT photojournalism students have been collaborating with the Rochester Public Television and Radio station WXXI to produce stories related to the Station’s coverage of the elections. It has been an enormous effort by both the students and the photojournalism faculty. The students were organized into teams that […]

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From the Classroom – Nature and Natural Science Photography

RITphoto teaches more than 150 various classes during a normal academic year. These courses include traditional subjects and sometimes highly specialized classes such as e-sensitometry or photomicrography. In the fall one of the special classes is Nature and Natural Science Photography taught by Don Cochran. This class explores the natural world using an eye towards […]

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RITphoto is Distinctive because of its Faculty

When visitors come to RIT and the the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences they often inquire what differentiates RIT from the ther schools they are visiting. Prospective students visit from all around the globe and sometimes they are very familiar with RIT and other times not so much. There are a number of things […]

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Contact Sheet by Frank Cost

A few years ago a triptych arrangement of three photographs of my mother – taken around 1950 – was discovered in a box in the basement of my parents’ home in Syracuse, New York.  The three frames had been printed onto one sheet of 11 by 14 glossy photo paper with captions written in ink […]

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From the Classroom: Updates from Photographic Technology 1

The Photographic Technology class instructor, Nanette Salvaggio shared her thoughts about the first month of this class. We are just finishing the fourth week of the Fall semester and the students are now pretty acclimated to the class expectations. The Photographic Technology class explores the contemporary  technology required to produce photographs.  The first few months […]

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#RITphoto faculty publishes new book

#RITphoto is pleased to help celebrate the book release of Greg Halpern, an associate professor of fine art photography. This book is Greg’s third book and is titled ZZYZX. The book, published by MACK London, United Kingdom contains 128 pages and  77 full color photographs. Share below is the book’s cover. Pictured to the left […]

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RITphoto: Summer Reflections & New Offerings

The parking lots are again full at RIT and classes have begun. Both the RIT Photography Store and the Digital Den stocked their shelves in advance of more than 19,000 students returning to campus last week. We are excited to share RITphoto’s freshmen class is the largest since 2008! Horray…           […]

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Image Permanence Institute seeks a new director

Executive Director  Image Permanence Institute wanted             The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York is seeking an Executive Director. The Executive Director will provide leadership and strategic direction for the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) of RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, a […]

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Summer at #RITphoto 2016

When the calendar reaches July 4, some people at #RITphoto think the summer is more than half over. Summer typically is a time of planning, getting ready for the fall, and time away from campus for the dedicated faculty who are working on numerous self-directed initiatives. It is also construction season on the RIT campus. […]

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