I first met Paris Benson in 2017 at a RIT Photo summer Digital Workshop for high school students. At the time, she was quiet but very curious and worked hard. In the fall of the 2018, she enrolled in RIT and over the last four years, has worked very diligently towards her goals and grown […]

I can’t believe it’s the 11th week of the fall semester and we are still using Zoom. We have only 4 weeks to go until the semester is completed and I feel this is a major accomplishment for everyone thus far since 35% of my classes are in person! That is just great. Students and […]

Before going any further with this post, I wanted to share a few of my own perspectives as a third year student of color in the photography program. As you might recall from a previous post, I am Chinese American and I was adopted when I was a baby. Growing up was easy going but […]

One of the beautiful things about being a photographer is that you are exposed to many perspectives. Sometimes I think I am in another person’s shoes when I am making photographs. Everyone comes from a different background. I think adding more diversity is a process that brings people closer and also makes experiences stronger. In […]

I still enjoy seeing where RIT Photo alumni go to work, even after 35 years. Mustafa Hussain is the photographer at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo N.Y. and took my surgical photography class in the fall of 2018, as a photojournalism student. Mustafa earned a BA in psychology before he joined the RIT […]

Intro: RIT Photo Professor Dan Larkin (DL) was Ethan Aaro Jones’ (EJ) photography teacher for his junior and senior years in the Fine Art Photography Program. They have stayed in touch and Dan produced this interesting post from a recent conversation he had with Ethan fifteen years after their first meeting DL:  Can you summarize […]

Welcome back Tigers. I hope you are well and healthy. I’m stoked to be back in school, I missed having a sense of purpose or having a routine. Quarantine created battles for every one of us but we made back here to RIT even though it may have seemed like forever. All we can do […]

Emily SuDock has been the RIT Photo student blogger for this academic year. In this her last post for the year, she shares some personal thoughts about her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. We want to thank Emily for a job well done. She produced fifteen posts this year and we look forward to reading […]

Are finding yourself with a loss of things to do? Feeling unproductive as a creative or photographer? Wondering how you can stay productive with limited activities when you are not at RIT or school in general? Well, there is plenty that I discovered about those thoughts while being at home. I wanted to share some […]

A blog post with all that’s going on? Well yes, COVID-19 is not going to stop me from being creative and sharing RIT Photo stories! We are all trying to find our rhythm during this confusing time and I am personally struggling like everyone else. I keep telling myself to just remember that it is […]