Photography

Imaging scientist and social impact inventor Ramesh Raskar of MIT is the 2016 recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

Ramesh Raskar awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Imaging scientist and inventor sets sights on launching peer-to-peer invention platforms for global impact.

September 13, 2016

On a summer's day MIT sailboats can be seen backlit by the setting sun.

Scene at MIT: Summer sailing

August 2, 2016

Fireworks lit up the night sky and MIT's campus on July 4.

Scene at MIT: Independence Day spectacular

July 6, 2016

This image shows microneedles, which are mostly used for the delivery of drugs and vaccines across the skin, and the silicone mold used to make them.

Seeing science

Workshop led by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel teaches researchers how to translate experiments into captivating images.

July 1, 2016

A unique reflection of MIT's Building 32, the Ray and Maria Stata Center

Scene at MIT: Reflections on Stata

June 29, 2016

Members of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group devised a new approach to image separation in photographs. Their system fires light into a scene and gauges the differences between the arrival times of light reflected by nearby objects — such as panes of glass — and more distant objects.

Reflection-removing camera

Device uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows.

March 25, 2016

MIT Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen photographed large school of golden sweepers within a coral reef in Palau.

Q&A: Visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen

MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen brings high-speed photography to the natural world.

November 24, 2015

California sea lions near the kelp forests off the coast of Monterey, California

Capturing an underwater world

Visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen collaborates with MIT faculty and staff to create a unique underwater photography course.

November 17, 2015

Making more than pretty pictures

Felice Frankel uses strong visual vocabulary to eliminate ambiguity and sell ideas.

January 29, 2015

Superhuman vision

October 6, 2014

MechE alumna catches rare glimpse of marine life

Grace Young recalls Edgerton-Cousteau friendship.

October 1, 2014

Drone lighting

Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.

July 11, 2014

Threshold. Mt. Rokko Chapel, Kobe, Japan, July 1990.

The eye is a door

New exhibit showcases landscape photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn

June 12, 2014

The original photos (far left) have three styles transferred onto them: (from left) low-key and high contrast, warm and soft lighting, and high-contrasted black-and-white.

Spruce up your selfie

A new algorithm could transfer acclaimed photographers’ signature styles to cellphone photos.

May 29, 2014

MIT Museum exhibit features 100 early photographic portraits

"Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840-1900)," from the Wm. B. Becker Collection, is on view in Kurtz Gallery for Photography from April 18 to Jan. 4, 2015.

April 10, 2014

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