| Name | | Paolo Roversi | |
| General info : | | Paolo Roversi is an Italian photographer (born 1947 in Ravenna) living in Paris.
In 1970 he started collaborating with the Associated Press.
In 1971 he met by chance in Ravenna, Peter Knapp, the Art Director of Elle magazine. At Knapp’s invitation, Paolo visited Paris in November 1973 and has never left.
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| Websites | | www.paoloroversi.com (www.paoloroversi.com) | |
| General info : | Paolo Roversi is an Italian photographer (born 1947 in Ravenna) living in Paris.
In 1970 he started collaborating with the Associated Press.
In 1971 he met by chance in Ravenna, Peter Knapp, the Art Director of Elle magazine. At Knapp’s invitation, Paolo visited Paris in November 1973 and has never left. | Paolo Roversi (Born in 1947 in Ravenna, Italy) is an Italian photographer living in Paris.
Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi's interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black & white work. The encounter with a local professional photographer Nevio Natali was very important: in Nevio's studio, Roversi spent many hours realising an important apprenticeship as well as a strong durable friendship.
In 1970, he started collaborating with the Associated Press: on his first assignment, AP sent Roversi to cover Ezra Pound's funeral in Venice. During the same year, Roversi opened, with his friend Giancarlo Gramantieri his first portrait studio, located in Ravenna, via Cavour, 58, photographing local celebrities and their families.
In 1971, he met by chance in Ravenna, Peter Knapp, the Swiss fashion photography and legendary artistic director of Elle magazine. At Knapp's invitation, Roversi visited Paris in November 1973 and has never left.
In Paris, Roversi started working as a reporter for the Huppert Agency but little by little, through his friends, he began to approach fashion photography. The photographers who really interested him then were reporters. At that moment he didn't know much about fashion or fashion photography. Only later, he discovered the work of Avedon, Penn, Newton, Bourdin, and many others.
The British photographer Laurence Sackman took Roversi on as his assistant in 1974.
Sackmann was very difficult. Most assistants only lasted a week before running away. But he taught me everything I needed to know in order to become a professional photographer. Sackmann taught me creativity. He was always trying new things even if he did always use the same camera and flash set-up. He was almost military-like in his approach to preparation for a shoot. But he always used to say 'your tripod and your camera must be well-fixed but your eyes and mind should be free'.
Roversi endured Sackmann for nine months before starting on his own with small jobs here and there for magazines like Elle and Depeche Mode until Marie Claire published his first major fashion story.
Roversi's career has since bloomed to include celebrity and fashion photography. He has been a regular contributor to American Vogue, and Vogue Italia, W, Vanity Fair, Interview and i-D. He has also photographed advertising campaigns for Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Dior, Cerruti, GIADA, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Alberta Ferreti.
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