The RIT experience is immersive and diverse. Students enroll in photography classes right from the beginning of their education in year one and in the first semester. It is an applied education that provides a wide range of general education experiences. RIT offered its first photography class in 1902. The entering first year class of […]

RIT is a special school. There are very few – if any other – photography schools that provide  the range of classes and activities that RIT does. Rated as the #2 school in the U.S. by Resource Magazine, every day is busy, challenging, and great fun. The fall semester started August 25th. That day was […]

Emily Barresi is from Greenwich, Connecticut. She is a fourth-year fine art photography student and is also working on a minor in art history. She will be graduating from RIT in May 2015. Her recent work explores relationships of material possessions and ways mass-produced products convey emotion, sentimentality,and communication. What was your most challenging assignment […]

Jordan Burns is from Troy, New York. He received an associates degree in photography from Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York before transferring to RIT. He is a fourth year advertising photography student and will be graduating in December 2014. His work focuses on sport and sports products. We asked Jordan to answer the […]

Seth Abel was born in Rome, New York. He is completing his fourth year at RIT and is studying advertising photography. Seth will be graduating December 2014.  His work focuses on commercial still-life and narrative portraiture. Q: What was your most challenging assignment as a photography student? A: I feel like the most challenging assignment […]

  Jordan Briscoe was born in North Syracuse, New York, in 1993. She is a fourth-year Imaging and Photographic Sciences major, specializing in Biomedical Photographic Communications. She and will be graduating from RIT in May 2015. Her work is based primarily in high magnified imaging and focuses on engaging viewers with objects not easily seen […]

Students and the Photography School are very lucky to have a huge resource in the Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services. This office is driven by the simple mission:   To provide effective, high-quality services to RIT students and alumni,  empowering and supporting them in the achievement of their experiential learning, career and employment […]

Madison McKenna was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992. She recently graduated from RIT with a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration, majoring in Fine Art Photography. Her work involves collections in terms of memory and the autobiography, and stories that a place can tell through visual artifacts and clues. She will spend the next year […]

Photo by Sarah Ann Jump July 14-18, 2014 the fourth workshop for high school students was lead by Professor William Snyder. Similar to the others, day one was very successful. Sponsored in part by Nikon, the students had a very busy day learning about cameras, lenses, and flash photography. The technical lectures will lead up […]

Willie Osterman is a professor of fine art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Willie has been teaching, researching and working as a professor and artist at RIT since 1984. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in photography with a minor in art history from Ohio University. He earned his Master of […]