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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]