If you know of people who have made stunning photographs for a scientific or technical purpose and who might be interested in participating in an exhibition of superior scientific and technical photography we'd much appreciate it if you would forward this note to them or simply disseminate the following announcement to as wide a potential audience as possible. Thank you very much, Andy Davidhazy Andrew Davidhazy, Professor Imaging and Photographic Technology School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT 70 Lomb memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623 em: andpph@xxxxxxx web: www.rit.edu/~andpph -------------------------------- begin ---------------------------------- For Immediate Release August 20, 2007 School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, N.Y. IMAGES from SCIENCE 2008 http://IMAGES.rit.edu The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y., is proud to be organizing the exhibition and catalogue, IMAGES from SCIENCE 2008, scheduled for its opening in the fall of 2008. The organizers are soliciting images created specifically for the purpose of recording of scientific and engineering research or images from other related fields such as oceanography, geology, biology, engineering, medicine, physics, or other related disciplines. IMAGES from SCIENCE 2008 is planned to be a showcase of photographs made in the pursuit of scientific information. Since the exhibition is soliciting images worldwide we would appreciate you sharing this announcement with others to accomplish our goal of developing this unique international exhibition so that it includes a wide range of contributors. Inclusion into this juried show will be 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 as applied from a wide range of jurors. Persons submitting images must certify that they own the copyright to the image(s). Judging, will take place in Rochester, N.Y., March 2008. There is no entry fee. To be considered for this exhibition sample digital files must be submitted for the judging process. A maximum of four images per creator may be submitted for judging. JPEG files with a resolution of about 640 x 480 pixels, medium compression resulting in image file sizes of less than 100 kb, should be emailed as attachments to RITphoto@xxxxxxx by February 28, 2008. Make sure to include the word IMAGES in the subject line of the message to which the images are attached. In addition to the e-mail submission, please include the following information for each image: * photographer and/or organization's name * title of the photograph * subject photographed * any relevant data about the experiment * imaging equipment used A minimum of seven International Judges are being identified to select the final images that will be a part of the exhibition and catalogue. IMAGES from SCIENCE will be on display in fall 2008 for a period of three weeks after which it may be available to travel. The exhibition of Images from Science 2002 was hosted by 23 organizations in seven different countries most recently in the Czech Republic. Images from the 2002 exhibition can be seen by visiting: http://images.rit.edu 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 Web site as the exhibition process moves forward. Preliminary sponsors for the exhibition include Adobe Systems Inc. and Durst USA. For inquiries contact Andrew Davidhazy, RIT professor of imaging and photographic technology at andpph@xxxxxxx or Michael Peres, RIT professor of biomedical photographic communications at mrppph@xxxxxxxx -------------------------------- end ----------------------------------
