Doug Rea is professor of photography and a digital photography pioneer. Since joining RIT, he has had more than 35 exhibitions of his photographic work. Professor Rea is also a freelance photographer for non-government organizations, news agencies and motorsports. His work has been reproduced in numerous national and international news publications. Professor Rea is also an expert in motosports photography, documentary photography, digital workflow, color management and photojournalism education.

Four-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and editor William Snyder is a professor and chair of the photojournalism program at his alma mater. After graduating from RIT in 1981, Snyder joined The Miami News and, two years later, moved to the photography staff of The Dallas Morning News. During his 15 years as a staff photographer, Snyder won three Pulitzers Prizes: the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism in 1989, along with a The Dallas Morning News reporter and artist for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash; the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his pictures of ill and orphaned children living in desperate conditions in Romania; and, along with fellow photographer and RIT graduate Ken Geiger, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News photography for their photographic coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

In 1998, Snyder changed roles and became a picture editor/manager. He served as the night photo editor, assignments editor, metro/suburban photo editor and assistant director of photography in the The Dallas Morning News Collin County bureau.

In 2005, he was named director of photography and guided the photography staff to the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He also produced “Eyes of The Storm,” a 256-page book published by Taylor Trade featuring the The Dallas Morning News photo staff’s images from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which has sold over 14,000 copies.

He began shooting photographs for The Gleaner, in his hometown of Henderson, Ky., at the age of 14. He rode his bicycle to his assignments or his mother drove him.

He has won numerous awards from The National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press Managing Editors, Society of Newspaper Design, Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, Dallas Press Club, The Texas Headliners, Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Olympic Photo Committee.

In 1994–1995, he was the Dan Burke Fellow for the University of Michigan’s Professional Journalism Fellowship program, where he studied African-American history and Eastern European/Russian History.

He has lectured in Romania, the Czech Republic and numerous universities and professional symposiums across the U.S.

His freelance clients include Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Computer Reseller, Allstate Insurance Co., New York Times Sunday Magazine, Pinnacle Sports Cards and the rock group The Who.

Loret Steinberg is an expert on documentary photography, photojournalism, social responsibility and photography, ethics and documentary photography/photojournalism, community responsive media, civic journalism and photography, and building new ways of telling more meaningful stories with photographs.

She has spent much of her life finding ways to make and teach students how to make stronger, more telling photographs. Beyond the photograph itself, her work addresses the who, what and why of the photograph-what happens to it once it's made, how it's used, how it affects an audience and the broader impact of documentary and journalistic photography in our culture. That has given way to developing new methods for working that address the problems inherent in photographing subjects beyond the photographers' realm of experience.

Steinberg, an expert in community ties in education, advocates that her students become involved with their community. She has initiated projects where inner city children and high school kids learn about each other using photography as the tool to open doors in communication.

In addition to teaching photojournalism and documentary classes at RIT, she lectures on ethics and photography and continues to develop courses in social documentation and collaborative work with the community.

Steinberg writes on a range of topics in photojournalism education such as the impact of technology on audience perception, the role of reflection in professional work and photographers' responsibility to a diverse community. Her work has been exhibited and published in galleries, museums and in publications across the United States.

Steinberg holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and fine arts from Indiana University, a master's in photography from Indiana University. She has taught workshops and courses in civic journalism, visual communication and story telling, alternative methods for engaging audiences and picture editing.