RIT Photo Store expands its definition of imaging – and its business by Kevin Marks Very few Universities have a photography store right on their campus but RIT does. The RIT Photo Store faces similar challenges to any brick and mortar retail business. It does have the advantage of being located in the heart of […]

Architecture Field Trip by Don Cochran  At the end of April, the RIT architectural photography class went to Buffalo and Toronto.  They had a wonderful tour of the interior Darwin Martin house ( Frank Lloyd Wright ) but were unable to photograph because of weather. On the way to Toronto, they stopped first in Mississauga […]

Underwater Photography by  Yasmeen Smalley When I think back to this last time last year, I remember feeling a combination of fear and excitement. It was a cocktail of nerves felt by most graduating seniors. At the time I was finishing up two degrees, Photojournalism and Biomedical Photographic Communications, and was hesitant to enter the […]

Photojournalism major Evan Ortiz participated in the second annual New York Portfolio Review, held April 5 and 6 at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. More than two thousand applications were received from fine art photographers to photojournalists. Picture editors from The New York Times screened applicants and 150 people were selected to […]

Intersession experiences reconnecting with Alumni By Associate Professor Dan Larkin I traveled to the west coast during our first ever semester break. I have been at RIT for 25 years so this was a really new experience. Craving warmth and sunshine, I found a reasonable airfare and car rental combination that I couldn’t pass up. […]

DATELINE: RIT Photo is happy to announce the continuation of an exciting new major: Cat Photography! Get an up close and personal view of this new major and realize the thrills and chills that come from photographing our feline friends. So get out the camera and cat toys! Explore what this new major has to […]

Flying above harbors, creating powerful images of cargo ships, cruise ships, tugboats, cable layers, warships and barges reflects a choreographic and navigational process. By bringing seafaring familiarity; knowing one’s subject and solving aerial image production with navigation and maritime savvy, the privilege to produce images in this realm is awesome. Creating images however is a […]

During the first week of March, I had the pleasure to visit the RIT campus and share with students my experiences since graduation. I talked about my life as both an artist and as co-director of Circuit Gallery. I currently live and work in Toronto, Canada, where I am able to maintain a studio practice […]

I am a relatively new member to the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences faculty.  As an artist, I primarily make objects. I find my position as part of the photography faculty intriguing and I trust my students find it equally so. So, you may ask “why am I here?”Art is art, everything else is […]

On February 28, The Alexia Foundation announced RIT photojournalism student Sarah Ann Jump has received an Alexia Award of Excellence for her project “New Roots: Refugees Resettling in America.” The project is a photographic documentation of the first year of resettlement for a refugee family settling in Rochester, New York. It was also announced that […]