RITphoto’s Optimizing Digital Outcomes Workshop a Big Success January 10, 11, and 12, Nitin Sampat and Michael Peres hosted ten members of the Smithsonian Museums digitizing department for a three days hands-on immersion into using new technology . The focus on the seminar was to improve imaging outcomes for the various Museums within the Smithsonian. […]

Twelve Years of Instant Photobooks by Frank Cost James E. McGhee Professor School of Photographic Arts & Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology Twelve years ago, on Valentine’s Day 2006, I was riding in the back of a taxicab in the South Indian City of Chennai and I wanted to capture a video clip of the […]

RITphoto asked sophomore Ashley Crichton to share her story. I grew up in Palo Alto, California, just south of San Francisco. I never lived anywhere besides Palo Alto before I came to Rochester NY to attend RIT. I was pretty nervous about the move, but now a year and half later, coming  cross country to […]

Faculty Leaves: An Opportunity for Professional Growth and Development by Willie Osterman PHOTO BY MIKE HANLON One of the many wonderful opportunities afforded to a professor who teaches in the higher education world is a faculty leave or professional development ( as RIT likes to call them aka the sabbatical). To receive a professional leave […]

Is winter real or not? 🙂   Winter break will soon be over and on Tuesday January 16, 2018, the spring semester begins. It is remarkable how fast times passes. We thought it would be fun to share an interesting project Prof Christye Sisson and Ted Kinsman are working on. Thanks for staying in touch with […]

Surround360 VR camera project by Nitin Sampat During the summer of 2016, RITphoto and Facebook, Inc discussed the idea to build, test and deploy an 8K, stereo surround 360 camera. A collaborative group, “frameless labs” , comprising of students and faculty from RIT have been working together on this project since that time. The project […]

We invited Christopher Beitz to share his story photo by Scott Semler I grew up in a small town just south of Buffalo, NY. After graduating from high school in 2011, I enrolled at Erie Community College and pursued an associate’s degree in communication and media arts for two years while living at home. My […]

Professor Angela Kelly Self Portrait circa 1978 Developed over a lifetime, my artwork explores related concepts within a fine art and documentary practice. Subject matter includes: girl culture, re-purposing the family album as art, and exploring the idea of place within historical memory and visual culture. I arrived at RIT in 1994 from Chicago, having […]

Still Visible After Gezi – part of the exhibition Wanderlust, University of Buffalo Galleries, & Do you know this tree? Visual Studies Workshop Press (2017). by Roberley Bell  Professor Fine Art In 2010, as a Fulbright scholar,  I lived in Istanbul, Turkey. A project that began accidentally while there has now become an exhibition and […]

We love sharing stories about our talented and dedicated students. Traci Westcott shared her experiences at RITphoto below. Bio I’m a 3rd year photojournalism major from Brockport, N.Y. From as young as I can remember I saw the world differently than most. I’ve always enjoyed problem solving and approaching situations from outside angles. People are […]