Bio: Jackie Spaventa is a third year Fine Art Photography student who is also studying art history, gender studies, and visual culture. She was born in the suburbs of Harrington Park ,New Jersey and initially came to RIT to study photojournalism. She quickly realized this was not the path for her and switched into fine […]

March 2016 Representatives from Sony recently visited #ritphoto to showcase camera gear for still and moving images, and related equipment. Students and faculty from the Photo School and the School of Film and Animation had the opportunity to get their hands on the abundance of equipment on display outside the Third Floor Cage. Sony reps […]

RIT Photography is excited to share an update on our next renovation. The School is housed in the Frank E Gannett building and it was built in 1968. At the time, it had 151 darkrooms. Over the course of the last decade many of these darkrooms became dormant. Two summers ago, 20 darkrooms were renovated […]

Hello! I’m Maria Sharp, a 2013 photojournalism graduate. Since graduating I have started my own wedding photography business in Cleveland, Ohio. I’m in my second season and things are going great! I’m able to use my storytelling skills that I learned while at RIT to create meaningful, gorgeous images that my clients can cherish for […]

Hi, I’m Meghan Jordan, a 2013 Fine Art Photography graduate. One of my favorite courses at RIT was History & Aesthetics of Photography, finding myself enamored as we traversed the timeline of photographic history. I realized that, though the majority of people own a camera, very little know how the process evolved from a large […]

Bio:  Amber Kates is a third year Photographic and Imaging Technology student with a specialization in ophthalmic photography and a minor in history. She was born in Philadelphia, and decided to come to RIT for their Biomedical Photographic Communications program due to its mixture of both science and imaging. This program at RIT has not […]

Hey everyone my name is Lia DiRico and I graduated last year from the Biomed Photo program. My life since RIT has been a whirlwind of random events, only some pertaining to photography. As much as I value our program and enjoyed the things I learned while in school, I needed a break when I […]

Hi! I’m Kristi Neilson, a 2014 Fine art photo graduate from RIT. A few months after I graduated I packed what I could in my car and moved cross-country from CT to sunny LA. Best decision I ever made! Starting a new life and career somewhere is not easy but it is most definitely exciting […]

Bio: Tom Brenner is a third year photojournalism student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His mother introduced him to photography when she gave him a disposable camera at the age of five. The gift was not for any special occasion, but rather to “babysit” Tom and he was hooked on photography after the first […]

  Meg Wells, a fourth year Visual Media student, was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally enrolled in the Advertising Photography program, sophomore year Meg found a love for graphic design that rivaled her passion for photography, so the Visual Media major made perfect sense. Meg has been involved in the CIAS Honors Program, […]