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Saturday May 7, 2016, RIT produced its 9th Imagine RIT festival. This festival began in 2008 at the suggestion of RIT president William Destler. It has been a wonderful addition to RIT and the entire campus is one big open house. Both students and faculty alike showcase their work during this 8 hour extravaganza. #RITphoto […]

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 […]

The #RITphoto Blog would like to introduce Hannah Kulp. Hannah is a second year student at RIT and is an avid lover of the arts, science, and everything in between. Hannah is working on a degree in the School of Individualized Study. We hired her to create posts for “A Student’s Point of View”. She […]

We never know what an #RITPhoto alum is going to do after graduation. We are always surprised and so very proud of the diverse and important careers many alums have found. As technology changes, new and evolving career opportunities are created. name: Evan Burrows graduated 1996 degree: BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration with a Biomed […]

March 19, 2016 Congrats to the #RITphoto community including students, alumni, faculty and staff! Because of the vitality and diversity of  our rich educational environment, #ritphoto was recently recognized for a couple of important honors. The MFA program in Imaging Arts received a #4 ranking in the category of Best Graduate Schools for Photography from […]

What is your current position/title? My title is communications and social media specialist at Compeer Rochester. Compeer is a non-profit whose mission is to create friendships by finding volunteers to be mentors to those living with mental illness in Rochester. What do you do on a daily basis and what are some things that you […]

  #RITphoto has a new public venue for videos produced for a multitude of faculty, student and class projects. Check out #ritphoto’s Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/ritphoto to get an up close and behind the scenes view of captivating productions from the advertising program as well as individual student productions and interviews. Along with its Instagram (@rit.photo), […]

RIT Photo is excited to share another NEWS update. Zeiss has consigned many lenses to our Photography Cage. We are looking forward to see the students use these high quality optics for shooting their assignments and for prizes. There are Zeiss lenses for both Canon and Nikon cameras! The cage has the following focal lengths: […]

RIT Photo faculty member Susan McWhinney will speak at Open All Ports: the 15th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College February 25th – 27th 2016. Her talk, “Framing Through The Body: Smart Phones, GoPros and the Embodied Frame” will examine the link that can […]

Professors Willie Osterman and Michael Peres first met in August 1986 when Peres was hired as an instructor in the biomedical photographic communications program and Osterman was an assistant professor of fine art photography. During the thirty years since that time, both have been actively working in their respective fields. One day in January 2016, […]