By Nina Caruso
Staff Writer

Rita Iovine is artsy taken to a new level. She is currently enrolled in four major art courses: Advanced Photography, Ceramics, Digital Photography, and AP Art. Not only that, just last week she was admitted into Antonelli Institute, a highly selective college of photography and graphic art with only about 300 talented young artists.

Iovine owns a whopping ten cameras, has a passion for fine arts and started her own photography business as a junior, mostly photographing her friends and family while teaming up with Neshaminy graduate and makeup artist Kyle Nagle. “My job is shooting people in the woods” Iovine said with a laugh.

Some photographers Iovine draws inspiration from include Alex Currie, Alex Stoddard, and Neshaminy’s own Advanced Photography teacher Mrs. O’Neill. Reciprocating the love, O’Neill said, “Rita’s future is so bright, you gotta wear shades.” To Iovine, photography gives the allusion of a whole new world with endless possibilities. “Photography takes me places I’ve never been without ever leaving,” she said, and this is proven in her intricately detailed work.

However, Iovine hasn’t always excelled in the art society. Her humble beginnings included websites such as Picnik and Picmonkey, just as any other indie seventh grader’s did. She utilized her passion and motivation to teach herself and transform into the expressive and edgy artist she is today. Iovine prefers candid, or un-posed, photography over staged and can always be found in her second home, the darkroom of G107.