Photo Expo

The PDN Photo Expo, hosted in NYC, brings people from various parts of the photography industry in to learn about new and upcoming technology and techniques as well as to mingle and meet other professionals. RIT hosts an alumni event to accompany this every year. Last night the alumni of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences met at Connolly's Pub. It was wonderful seeing so many alumni there! And they even had a mini raffle, I won a set of orange RIT luggage tags, another reason to travel more!

At the actual Expo, RIT has a booth where some photography from the honors show is displayed, including my image from the Metallic Beauty series I did of Melinda.

Signatures

Tonight was the reception at Gallery R in Rochester for Signatures Magazine. Regretfully I was unable to attend the reception but I did get a copy of the Signatures publication for this year, which is in the form of four small books held together in a sleeve. I had submitted a photograph for the magazine, which was published in one of the books. The photo is of Lianna Fowler, a model I photographed in London.

Honors Show

"On May 16, 2008 the Annual SPAS Honor Show recognizing the work of students in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences opened in the SPAS Photo gallery on the 3rd floor of the Gannett Building."

One of my images from my Metallic Beauty Series was chosen for the honors show and displayed near its entrance. After the show is displayed in the gallery it'll be used in exhibits for RIT throughout the year for RITs School of Imaging Arts and Sciences, specifically for photography.

Images from the gallery opening at RIT can be seen here: 2008 SPAS Honor Show Exhibition and Reception

Innovation

RIT hosts its first ever Imagine RIT: Innovation Festival, intended as an annual event. Creative works from each college on campus as well as clubs were highlighted in displays, demonstrations and experiments. I photographed the event and edited my photos, as well as those of other ETC photographers, on location for a slide show presentation in the field house, the center of the Innovation Festival, while it was happening.

In the College of Imagine Arts and Sciences, my fashion and product work was displayed in a large case. I received a lot of positive feedback from the showing of my work!

Psycho Win

RIT hosts a shootout, a one day competition in the studios where students get a couple hour time slot to set up, shoot an image and break down to portray a theme they announced in advance. The photo had to be submitted, unedited, right after the shoot. This years theme was 'Psychotic' and I partnered up with Mike Fiske to portray the theme. We had done the shootout last year, the theme then was 'Dream', so we had an idea of the pace of the day.

We enlisted the help of Melissa Stillman, makeup artist, and Vanessa Murphy, our model, to put together the image we had in mind. It was a crazy couple of hours, hair and makeup was in the process of being done in the schools hallway as we ran in and out of the studio setting up the seamless, lights and camera. A frozen pigs head was bought the night before and was still not completely thawed but sat bagged outside of the studio until right before shooting, styling it was incredibly interesting. It was just a hectic, fun experience. Then, to top the experience off, we received a call later that day..

We won the MAC Group Shootout!

We were completely ecstatic, and our photo was posted in the School of Imaging Arts and Sciences. The image can be seen in the Editorial section of my website!