The School receives a number of inquiries each year about what equipment is necessary for first classes. We produced this short video to overview these important pieces of equipment. If you have additional questions, please email us at: spastour@rit.edu  

I was born and raised in Bucks County, PA. Growing up art surrounded me everywhere.  I made my way up to Rochester and I am currently a third year biomedical photography student. Why did you choose RIT? In high school, my college search started later than most kids. I was set on only applying to […]

RIT PJ Students and Alum at the Eddie Adams Workshop by William Snyder Five members of the RIT photojournalism family—including current fourth-year students and two alumni—recently returned from The Eddie Adams Workshop. The workshop is a highly competitive, free, four-day workshop for 100 pre-selected college students and young professionals. It is held in the bucolic […]

Every day, we are genuinely surprised with how terrific RITphoto students are. Bio: I was born in Mexico and grew up in Cancun. I lived in Cancun for 19 years until I came to RIT. Cancun is not the paradise everyone thinks it is. It can actually be a little boring if you don’t like […]

News: RITphoto Prize 2017 Winners Announced by Dan Hughes The #ritphotoprize2017 was a success for the 4th time this annual photography contest was held. It aims to discover, support, and promote the next generation of image makers. Open to all 7-12th grade and community college student photographers, the submissions and winners for the 4th annual […]

The Role of the Slit-Scan Image in Science and Art by Ted Kinsman The use of slit-scan photography is actually quite old. It is often called line-scan, photo finish, or streak photography. Slit scan photography has a rich and colorful history rooted in chemical analog photography. This technique is often used to visualize high-speed events […]

Jhadé Benitez was born and raised in Rochester, New York where he graduated from Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School in 2014. He is a fourth-year advertising photography student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and began working with photography in middle school, where he joined the Photo Club. It was all about teaching students […]

Lily Lautenschlager is a third year biomedical photographic communications major at RIT. She is from Marysville, Ohio. She applied early decision to RIT and enrolled in the fall of 2015. Her goal  is to find her way into the ophthalmic photography field. Why did you choose RIT? I chose RIT after coming to the RIT  […]

Beki Tomasello Bio: My name is Beki Tomasello and I am from East Otto New York, a town just outside Buffalo New York. I graduated high school from the Springville Griffith Institute in 2013  and started my studies at Daemen College as a graphic design major. After one semester, I knew that that school (and […]

Catherine Zuromskis, PhD authors new essays by Therese Mulligan October 13, 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Zuromskis, who introduces two new essays on contemporary photography this fall season. Read a synopsis about each publication below and get reading to gain new insights into our evolving medium: “Crimes Seen and Unseen: Fantasies and Failures of Photographic […]