Professor Michael Peres, RIT specializing in biomedical photography and photomicrographyand m

My website began in 1996 as a simple way to share my work with those that might be interested. Since that time much has changed in my life and with photography. I am a professor of biomedical photographic communications at R•I•T and my specialization is photomicrography, biomedical photography, and laboratory photography used to gather and preserve visual information. The Forward Thinking Museum featured my work in a video that can be seen by following this link. I currently serve as the associate administrative chair of the world renown School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

I was first hired as an instructor in the Biomedical Photographic Communications department in September 1986. I served as the department chair from the fall of 1989 until the summer of 2010. While RIT, I have taught numerous undergraduate courses as well as a variety of workshops. Digital Imaging using a Light Microscope is sponsored by KTH and Karolinska Institutet and is offered in Stockholm Sweden - the home of the Nobel Foundation. This workshop was first offered in 1997 and before digital technologies replaced film. You can see photographs from my numerous visits to Sweden by following this link. I have also served as the chair of the Lennart Nilsson Award nominating committee also affiliated with Karolinska since 1998.

The courses I teach investigate applied scientific photography and communication problems. These explorations have resulted in various presentations and publications during my 30+ year career. A sampling of my publications can be found on the following publications link. A sampling of my student's work can be found at http://biomed.rit.edu/publicationsA.html. I served as the editor-in-chief of the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography-fourth edition. I love microscopy and have a wide range of imaging experiences using equipment produced by Nikon and Olympus. I also have been working closely with Zeiss MicroImaging and visited the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Sometimes I am interested in photographing snowflakes using microscopes during the long and gray Rochester, New York winters.

My career has provided me with many extraordinary opportunities and I have been fortunate to have met many generous and inspirational people who have opened doors and provided me with life changing experiences. A few of my photogrphy projects include the RIT Big Shot, the Images from Science project, and the Faces of Jewish Rochester. I also exhibit my photography and I love to exhibit science images in non-scientific environments. Several professional achievements that I am proud of would include being the recipient of the 2003 RIT Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching; the 2003 and 2008 RIT College of Imaging Arts And Sciences Gitner Prize for outstanding achievement in the graphic arts; the 2007 Schmidt Award presented by the BioCommunications Association for lifetime achievement in the life sciences communications; and the 2010, Frank J Romano Innovation in Graphic Publishing prize for my work as the advisor for the BPC Bulletin.

I began taking pictures in 1973 when I bought my first camera with money earned from bagging groceries in a supermarket in Utica, New York. Examples of my earliest work can be found in my Utica, New York - 1973. You can see other examples of my photography by following this link: Galleries. In 1983, I married Laurie S Peres and have 2 wonderful children, Jonathan and Leah.