Faculty News

RIT Photo faculty member Susan McWhinney will speak at Open All Ports: the 15th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College February 25th – 27th 2016. Her talk, “Framing Through The Body: Smart Phones, GoPros and the Embodied Frame” will examine the link that can […]

Only at RIT: Professors Photograph a Snowflake using a Wet Plate Collodion Emulsion

Professors Willie Osterman and Michael Peres first met in August 1986 when Peres was hired as an instructor in the biomedical photographic communications program and Osterman was an assistant professor of fine art photography. During the thirty years since that time, both have been actively working in their respective fields. One day in January 2016, […]

Alumni Feature – Avanell Brock/ Visual Media 2015

What is your current position/title? I am currently the CUREkids Coordinator at the CURE International Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. CURE provides mostly free – but at some of our hospitals for a nominal fee – surgery for kids. Our hospital in Malawi is an orthopedic hospital and treats bones and muscles.  Many surgeries are performed […]

News: RIT Photography Professor wins NSF award

News #RITPhoto Professor Denis Defibaugh wins NSF grant Photo by Justin Barrett Denis Defibaugh was awarded a national science foundation grant for his proposal entitled, Rockwell Kent and Early 1930’s Greenland: A Comparative View of Genealogical, Environmental, Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Greenland Denis will leave for Greenland April 2016 and he will return […]

RITPhoto student features

A few years ago, #RITphoto decided to launch a competition with the intention of discovering, supporting and promoting a new generation of image makers. The faculty decided to use Instagram as the platform, where students would be able to enter by tagging their best five images with #RITphotoPrize2015. This year, there were nearly 650 entries from students all around the US and beyond, […]

News from the RITPhoto Cage

Photo by Amber Doerr Spring semester has started and we are busy as can be. The RITPhoto cage is a huge resource in our community and is always a beehive of activity for student employees and photography students during each and every day. Equipment in the cage changes frequently. It is nothing short of remarkable […]

Faculty News – #RITPhoto Professor Loret Steinberg wins award

Associate Professor Loret Steinberg of Rochester Institute of Technology, and Tim Broekema of Western Kentucky University, were recently selected as the recipients of the Robin F. Garland Educator Award given by the National Press Photographers Association. The honor is given for outstanding service as a photojournalism educator. https://nppa.org/node/73019 Steinberg is an associate professor of photographic […]

Spring Semester right around the Corner

We are getting ready for Spring semester. It starts in one week on January 25. As we get ready, this post features three behind the scenes videos created by students in the Ad Core class taught by Rachel Jerome Ferraro, Clay Patrick McBride, Doug Manchee, Denis Defibaugh, Susan Lakin and Susan McWhinney. RIT Photography has […]

Summer Cleaning and Readying the Cage for Fall

Getting ready for fall 2151 Hey everyone! This is Kristen McNicholas, your friendly neighborhood cager bringing you some updates of what we’ve been doing here at the cage this summer. The start of the summer was slow but quickly picked up once we (Amanda Smith and I) started painting regularly, weeding the roof, rearranging the […]

Alumni feature – Jennifer Turano, O.D.

We can never tell what an #RITPhoto alum is going to end up doing after graduation . We are always surprised and so very proud of the diverse and important careers many of our alums find themselves working in. During the last decade, three women from the Biomedical Photographic Communications major have become doctors.  This […]