Rolph gobits biography of rory

I enjoyed very much both disciplines. There are just too many as I have worked in the industry for over thirty-five years. Money aside, what do you prefer shooting — advertising or editorial? I truly have no preference. I think a lot of your shots have been badly handled by art directors. The best conceived adverts are the ones where the art director knows what he wants and fights any other opinions people express.

You have to be a benevolent dictator. It is that very quality that makes the best art directors the best art directors. I would imagine art directors gave you very open briefs? Sometimes the open brief consisted of many discussions with the art director many weeks before the shoot. We would sit down and talk about his ideas and my vision and collectively we would arrive at the ideal situation which would make the advert look like an open brief.

Most photographers who take portraits focus on the face. Well, it is a portrait after all. So if you are shooting the artist Jenny Saville, most would try and capture her expression, like this. Some, the bolder ones, may pull back a little to also capture a bit of body language. Few see the world like that. Simply bung a bit of type in the corner and your spread looks amazing.

Take the portrait above, few would be bold enough to have the face of the subject taking up only two percent of the total area, or below, few would push the window to the side to show lots of blank wall.

Rolph gobits biography of rory

Just a few words about the Jenny Saville image, because her paintings are very large I photographed her small intentionally. This was the whole idea of photographing her. In almost all cases I cannot explain how I compose an image. It is not about size of the person or product; it is about what feels right and gives the sort of emotion I get when I see the location or person.

It is about what feels right to me. This was especially true during my work for Management Today magazine, working for Roland Schenk, as all the people I photographed were the creme de la creme of business people and felt very uncomfortable having a camera shoved up their noses. This was the beginning of me showing more about their environment rather than their faces.

This way the captains of industry felt more relaxed and comfortable. I presume they tell the dentist a preference to being photographed rather than visiting them. Do art directors find you easy going and flexible, or immovable, like a rock? This question makes me laugh. With bad art directors I was immovable as they were very indecisive of what they wanted and therefore relied on my input, whilst working with good art directors became a team effort and was very much open to exchange of ideas.

Powered by CITE. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Browse Biographies. Gobits has worked on his major personal project of portraits of travelling entertainers and vaudeville performers for more than five decades. He has travelled all over the UK to produce more than photographs, many to be included in his forthcoming book of images from this project.

Dancer c Brian Dewhurst c s 30 x 30 cm Sepia toned silver gelatin print made by the artist c Edition of Susanne Patrice c s 29 x 30 cm Sepia toned silver gelatin print made by the artist c Edition of