White cover of paperback book '35 Years of Painting with Light' with orange angular grapgic design.
Color photographic panoramic image of Church Hill Downs
Black and white photographic panoramic image of an open ait baseball stadium.
An open double page spread of the book featuring eight thumbnails of photographs and detailed text information.
An open double page spread of the book featuring thumbnails of photographs and detailed text information.
Color photo of three eople huddled together, smiling and holding a print photograph. Two images of print newspapers featuring an article about the Big Shot project.

The RIT Big Shot Photographs and History: 1987 - 2022

RIT Big Shot
$14.99

The RIT Big Shot Photographs and History: 1987–2022 is a handsomely designed catalogue produced to support the Exhibition, The RIT Big Shot: 35 years of Painting with Light displayed in the RIT University Gallery in Fall 2022. The catalogue shares a dynamic display of the photographs and stories behind the first 35 years of the nighttime community photography project. The RIT Big Shot invites participants to help make the photographs. Started in 1987 by RIT Professors Michael Peres and Bill DuBois, the Big Shot is produced and co-sponsored by RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). It is often is described as a “painting with light” event because participants are asked to “paint” or shine their light source onto a particular area of the subject while RIT photographers shoot an extended exposure. The event has traveled to several national landmarks and twice crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Through their viewfinders, Big Shot photographers have captured sites in the United States such as Kodak Tower in Rochester, N.Y.; Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.; AT&T (formerly Cowboys) Stadium in Arlington, Texas; and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Internationally, the RIT team has captured Pile Gate in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Publisher: RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (09/2022)
  • Binding: Softcover
  • Pages: 134
  • Illustrations: 97 color
  • Size: 6.7 x 9 in.