About Ron Rovtar . . .
303.473.1926
Cleveland, Ohio, native Ron Rovtar has spent much of his life looking through the camera's viewfinder. The son of a photo-hobbiest, Rovtar owned his first 35 mm camera while still in elementary school and learned to print black and whites when he was in seventh grade. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati in 1972 with a degree in philosophy, Rovtar became a journalist for ten years working at several Ohio daily newspapers as a writer, photographer and editor.
Rovtar
became a full-time freelance location photographer in 1982, shooting commercial
and editorial assignments in Columbus, Ohio. He
turned his attention to stock photography in 1990 when he signed a contract
with FPG International. Some of Rovtar's images have been licensed hundreds
of times. His work has appeared in ads for Microsoft, IBM, NEC, Huntington
Banks, Wendy's International and Toledo Scale. His images have also been
used by Time Magazine, Child Magazine, Kipplinger Books, Scholastic Publications
and many others.
Rovtar now lives near Boulder, Colorado. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and StockArtistsAlliance. He also is the owner of The Stock Asylum, LLC and Ron Rovtar Photography. As a stock photographer he is currently represented by Photonica, Solus and Mira/Creative Eye.
