Professor Michael Peres

I use my web site as a place to share my work. My photographic research and specialization is focused primarily in the areas of photomicrography, biomedical photography, and laboratory photography used to gather and preserve visual information. During my career, I have also been interested in showcasing science images in the non-scientific environments such as galleries.

I have been at RIT since 1986 when I was hired as an instructor in the Biomedical Photographic Communications department. I have served as the chair of the department for many years and I teach numerous undergraduate courses spanning all levels of the program's curriculum. I also teach a variety of workshops including a week long seminar course, Digital Imaging using a Light Microscope first offered in 1997. You can see photographs from my Visits to Sweden by following this link. The course is sponsored by the Karolinska Institutet - home of the Nobel Foundation which is located in Stockholm, Sweden. I serve as the Chair of the Lennart Nilsson Award nominating committee also administered at Karolinska.

While at RIT, I have been actively investigating applied photographic problems and related issues associated when photography is used to collect and preserve data. These explorations have resulted in various publications. A sampling of my publications can be found on the following publications link. I recently served as the editor-in-chief of the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography-fourth edition released in March 2007. I have a wide range of imaging experiences using light microscopy equipment produced by Nikon, Olympus, and Zeiss MicroImaging.

My career has provided me with extraordinary opportunities and I feel very fortunate. A few of my projects would be the RIT Big Shot and the Images from Science exhibition. Several professional achievements that I am proud of would include being the 2003 the recipient of the RIT Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching and the 2003 and 2008 College of Imaging Arts And Sciences Gitner Prize recipient. In 2007 I was presented the Schmidt Award by the BioCommunications Association for lifetime achievement in the life sciences and communications field.

I have been actively making pictures since 1973. Examples of my earliest work can be found in my Utica, New York - 1973 photographs. You can see other examples of my photography by following this link: people_places.html. I am also sometimes interested in photographing snowflakes during the long and gray Rochester, New York winters.