Parlo Roversi

Paolo Roversi was born in Italy in 1947. He took to photography at a young age and started a portrait studio in Italy and did some apprenticing there too. Until, by chance he met the art director for Elle magazine and followed him to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. Roversi was influenced and interested in photo journalism when he first moved to Paris but with help from others, he moved into the fashion photography field. He was the assistant to British photographer Lawernce Sackmann, where he was taught all about the professional side to fashion photography, as well as the creativity side. Then Roversi went out on his own and created his own trademark by shooting on 8x10 Polaroid and worked his way up the food chain and is now working for many upper class fashion magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.

Iam not very keen on fashion photography but i do like Paolo Raversi's work. I like the way he frames the women that he is photographing and his use of colour, sometimes having full colour, other times very washed out or selective colour in an image. I also appreciate his work that is slightly blurry or out of focus, as, for some reason, i find these images more 'fine art' than fashion. Overall I enjoy Raversi's work as it is not the typical photographs that you would think of in relation to fashion photography. There is a heart and a story to each image that I am attracted to.