School of Photographic Arts & Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York


IMAGES  from  SCIENCE 2008
http://IMAGES.rit.edu

Submissions are no longer accepted. Selection process is underway. Read below.

The School of Photographic Arts & Sciences at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology is proud to organize and sponsor the exhibition, IMAGES from SCIENCE, scheduled for fall of 2008. The organizers are soliciting images specifically created for the purpose of recording of scientific and engineering endeavors such as oceanography, geology, biology, engineering, medicine, physics, or other related disciplines.

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IMAGES from SCIENCE is planned to be a showcase of photographs made in the pursuit of scientific information. We would appreciate you sharing this announcement with others to accomplish our goal of developing this unique international exhibition.

Acceptance into this juried show will based on the photograph's impact, the image's aesthetics, the degree of difficulty in the making of the photograph as well as other related criteria. Persons submitting images must certify that they own the copyright to the image(s). Judging, will take place in Rochester, March 2008. There is no entry fee charged.

To be considered for this exhibition sample digital files must be submitted for the judging process. A maximum of 4 images per author may be submitted for judging. JPEG files with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, medium compression with file size per image less than 100 kb, should be emailed as attachments to: RITphoto@rit.edu by February 28, 2008. Make sure to include the word IMAGES in the subject line of the message to which the images are attached.

Along with the e-mail submission, for each image, please include:

    * photographer and/or organization's name
    * title of the photograph
    * subject photographed
    * any relevant data about the experiment
    * imaging equipment used

7 International Judges are being identified to help select the final images that will be a part of the exhibition and catalogue. IMAGES from SCIENCE will be on display in early fall of 2008 for a period of three weeks after which it may travel.

The selection panel is made up of the following: Julieanne Kost, Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, San Jose, California USA; Bonnie Stutski, Senior Photography Editor, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington DC, USA; A. Becquer Casaballe, Editor Fotomundo photography magazine, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Michael J. McNamara, Executive Technology Editor for Popular Photography & Imaging Magazine, New York, New York, USA; Dennis di Cicco, Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA; William W DuBois, Chair of the Photographic Arts division, School of Photographic Arts & Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York USA; Lennart Möeller, Ph.D., Deputy executive director Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Karolinksa Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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Images from Science 2002 was hosted by 23 organizations in 7 different countries mostly recently in the Czech Republic. You can still review what the previous exhibition contained by following this link: Images from Science 2002

By submitting images for consideration participants must give RIT the right to reproduce their copyrighted image(s) in the exhibition and in exhibition related materials or publications, including printed catalogues and a web gallery. Additional information will be posted on this website as the organization of the exhibition process continues.

Late breaking news!  

As of today, Thursday March 4, 2008 we have received contributions from 99 individuals totaling 301 images. Soon the process will be underway for the selections to be made by the judges mentiones above. We expect this process to be finished sometime in April.

By today, April 28, 2008 the selection process has been completed and out of the 301 images submitted about 60 will be forming part of the final exhibition. Preparations have started to receive the images either on CD or by electronic transfer. Also, the initiative to produce a catalog has started and a design template is being developed.



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The submission system for electronic transfer of images included in the exhibition was developed by Computer Science House (CSH). CSH is a Special Interest House in the residence halls at RIT. CSH is both a social and technical organization with more than 50 students on-floor, more off-floor, and several hundred alumni. CSH works on a variety of projects and hosts many seminars. Our resources include a computer lab, server room, project room and research room, among others. All of these resources are managed by us. For more information please visit our website.


For inquiries contact either of the two individuals below:

Michael Peres
Professor of Biomedical Photographic Communications
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
mrppph@rit.edu    www.rit.edu/~mrppph

Andrew Davidhazy
Professor of Imaging and Photographic Technology
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
andpph@rit.edu    www.rit.edu/~andpph