We asked School Chair, Therese Mulligan PhD to write a post discussing the Scholarships the School offers. Every spring semester, the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences invites students to submit portfolios for consideration of one or more of the School’s many scholarships. A Scholarship Committee, consisting of faculty drawn from all School programs, evaluates […]

Hello. It’s Ashley Crichton posting again. This post is part of a series of revealing what it is like to be a photography student at RIT. I recently interviewed Professor Angela Kelly the coordinator of the Photo Arts I & II class(required first year classes for all photo students). I spoke to her about how […]

Friday March 2, The exhibition Controlled Trauma will open. This exhibition features photographs that were taken in the operating rooms at the Rochester General Hospital(RGH). The photographs were made by students enrolled in a class available only at Rochester Institute of Technology. A budding partnership that started almost a decade ago between RIT & Rochester […]

RITphoto asked Prof Christye Sisson to share the work she and Prof. Ted Kinsman have been working on since June 2016. Falsified images have long been a part of photographic history. From spirit photography in the late 1800’s, to Stalin retouching out his deputies once they had fallen out of favor, photographs have been manipulated […]

Greenlandic Sledge Dog; An Icon of the Frozen Arctic| Photographs and text by Denis Defibaugh Many people ask me why I wanted to go to Greenland to work on a photography project. Actually, most people think I went to Iceland. While Greenland is a remote and cold island, it has one of the most unique […]

November 3, 2017 Professor Emeritus Doug Lyttle passed away. He was 98. Pictured above is Douglas Alfred Demetrios Lyttle, and his wife were photographed by RITphoto alum Dimitri Papadimitriou. Lyttle was a professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a beloved teacher of photography from 1969 […]

Hello from Ashley Crichton. You may recall I write posts for RITphoto. I recently I spoke with first-year student Sophia Cox about her experiences so far as an advertising photography student. Sophia first became interested in attending RIT because she is from Rochester and – at the time – both of her parents worked at […]

Alumni are always welcome to share their story and 2017 grad Katie DiFrancesco was interested. After Katie successfully finished her courses in May 2017, applied to, and was invited to work in the White House. She shared her story below. Biography:| Katie DiFrancesco graduated May 2017 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Photographic and Imaging […]

RITphoto is excited to introduce Ashley Crichton, a second year advertising photography student. Ashley will be working for the School as a student blogger.   Ashley wrote, I will be writing about my experiences as a student at RIT. I want to explore how the school has developed its programs that leads students through a […]

VISUAL MEDIA SEED PACKAGE DESIGN ROCHESTER COMMUNITY PROJECT with SHAWN DUNWOODY The FRUITBELT Project by Laurie OBrien Last year, students in my Elements of Visual Media Class PHVM-204 teamed up with Rochester Community Leader and Artist — Shawn Dunwoody.  Shawn is known for his community-led text murals that you see all over Rochester.  At the […]