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This is Ashley Crichton writing for the RIT Photo blog! For this post I wanted to share what it was like to be a student helper needed to make RIT Big Shot No 33. I was part of a team that David Turner directed needed to light the regions of the Big Shot’s composition that […]

It’s hard to believe its mid-terms. Holy smokes batman  🙂 RIT Photo loves to share student success and Justin Scalera certainly represents what can happen if you work hard and take advantage of opportunities. Justin will be photo-documenting the Kodak Research Park in the upcoming months for an Exhibition at Kodak. What a rare and […]

An Instant Photobook Celebrating the First Day of School by Frank Cost I was invited by Professor Angela Kelly to give a lecture to the first-year photo arts students during the fourth week of the fall semester. I had first met these students during their orientation at the end of August, and I took the […]

During the semester, we invite students to share their story. Every one of the RITphoto students have their own experiences because they all come from different places and have different interests. MacKenzie Crable is a fourth year fine art photography student. MacKenzie is from a small town outside Erie, Pennsylvania. She graduated Summa Cum Laude […]

We invited Gabriel Ponte-Fleary to share his RIT Photo experiences. Gabe is Deaf and is mainstreamed into the College of Art and Design. NTID enrolls more than 1200 students, many of whom frequently mainstream into all 9 of RIT’s colleges. We are thrilled to share Gabe’s successes as a student feature.   Bio Gabriel is […]

We invited fourth year Photo Sciences student Christian Lusardi to share some of his experiences at RITphoto. His answers are below My name is Christian Lusardi and I am a 4th year Imaging and Photographic Technology student from Ridgefield, Connecticut. I became interested in photography at age 9 when I first used a digital camera while […]

This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RITphoto! I am excited to be back posting as the School’s student blogger. Last week, I had a few meetings to lay out the semester’s goals for my posts and having just returned from the summer, I was curious about what other photo students had done with their […]

September 1968, the then new RIT campus opened in Henrietta after leaving its City campus. Pictured above and in the lower right is the Frank E Gannett Bldg connected to the James E Booth building. A lot can happen in fifty years and RITphoto is so excited to start another academic year. Summer was quiet […]

Samantha Falgiani graduated from the Biomedical Photographic Communications program in 2014. We knew she was living in Hawaii and thought we would ask what she was doing. In May, when I graduated, I was not exactly sure where my education and the degree would take me. This was in part because I had been exposed […]

RITphoto began offering summer photography workshops for high school students in 2010. William Snyder –a professor in the school – led the first workshop, Photojournalism for High School students,  which has run for eight consecutive summers. In 2015, a new workshop,  entitled Digital Photography was offered. Both of these workshops play important roles in the […]