Magazine Mondays This is Ashley Crichton writing again for RITphoto! One of my favorite parts about the RITphoto is the community that exists within the School. Magazine Monday is an event started this year to help enhance our community. It was started by one of the advertising professors, David Turner. Every Monday, David puts […]
marking matters In time by Patti Russotti “Marking Matters In Time” was an exhibition of collections, recollections, and art work that was made in response to life (and death) events of the last several years. It was displayed at Gallery R December 1-5, 2017. My partner was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer August 2010 and died August 2015. My daily practice at […]
April 14th and 15th 2018, eight photography students and adjunct photography professor Don Cochran visited two Frank Lloyd Wright homes and the Flight 93 Memorial in PA. On Saturday morning, they toured the Darwin Martin complex in Buffalo, NY and then five students drove to Southwest PA and experienced 80˚ weather. Rochester, N.Y.’s winter has […]
This is Ashley Crichton blogging from still dreary Rochester NY 🙂 I hope you have enjoyed reading my posts for RITphoto. My posts are created to share about what it’s like to be a photography student! My plans are to post one last time during this semester. Recently I have been talking to a few […]
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 […]