Photography, Film, and Animation News

Carol Alderman ’14 (photojournalism), an audio producer at The Washington Post working on podcast production and development, said she got to where she is today because she never turned down an opportunity.

She walks into the operating room and grips not a scalpel, but a camera. Lynne Tseng is one of the 100-plus RIT students to have taken the one-of-a-kind Surgical Photography class.

Frank Romano, world-renowned printing expert and RIT professor emeritus is the scheduled keynote speaker at Eastman Kodak Company's first-ever “Taking Print Further,” a two-day event revolving around today’s print market trends and the future of the industry. Additionally, a photobook produced by RIT School of Photographic Arts and Sciences professor and visual media chair Frank Cost’s Aerial Photography course will be distributed.

RIT's Big Shot photography team partnered with the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee to create a unique photo of the Frederick Douglass monument in Rochester’s Highland Park using the Big Shot’s “painting with light” technique.

The role of photography in the digital era has transformed medical photography and profoundly influenced medical education. RIT's Gallery r hosted an exhibition featuring photographs from the operating rooms at Rochester General Hospital (RGH) that were taken by students enrolled in RIT's Surgical Photography course throughout its existence.

 

RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences hosted a group of  Rochester Prep High School students. Fifteen students in the local charter school’s photography club learned about darkroom processes and producing high-quality photo prints. 

 

 

Discouraged by an underrepresentation of minority characters in 3D-animated works, two School of Film and Animation faculty launched the Character Mosaic Project. The initiative aims to build a library of ethnically diverse, well-built characters that are free of charge to independent animators/filmmakers and students around the globe.

 

RIT’s renowned School of Photographic Arts and Sciences credits its continued success to a focus on ensuring students are prepared to work in this evolving industry.

RIT is part of a select group of world-class researchers studying the fact and fiction of imagery in today’s digital culture by developing an algorithmic-based platform that can detect image manipulation.