Life & Work with Rob Lindsay

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rob Lindsay.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I started in NYC working on crews that made national TV spots. I was an “electrician”, setting lights and learning from some of the best shooters in the biz. I worked my way up to DP and began to be hired to shoot commercials, horror movies and music videos.

I moved to LA and worked there for eight years when I began to lose interest in the movie life and at the same time was being flown to Nashville to shoot videos for Reba, Travis, Joe Diffie, etc., and was offered a full-time role at a production company called Scene Three directing and shooting.

25 years later, I’m still here. I have run my own small shop since 1998, making spots and corp videos for Baptist Hospital, Doctors Hospital, the Walton Center, Pringles, Kohl’s, the National Guard, and many others. I rewrote and DP’d a short film called “Alius Primorus” that won a $30,000 prize at the Door Post Film Festival. I’m very proud of that work.

I also wrote a pilot for a half-hour comedy series called “Hellbent” about three washed-up admen in need of cash who decide to use their “skills in sales” as TV evangelists. Comedy Central almost set it up :(.

Around 2004 I began shooting stills and added that skill to my offerings. I’ve shot many corporate, travel, and art images — now sold on Saatchi’s website.

I’ve been married all that time to a beautiful and creative woman who helped establish yoga in Nashville — Hilary Lindsay (not the songwriter). She is still teaching privately and at Vanderbilt. We have two grown sons who we are very proud of!

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Always hard for a brash New Yorker to find the right tone here :). But I think that very brashness got me in some trouble in the “softer” surface of Southern interactions. I’ve learned to smooth some of my edges along the way!

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
What I’d say I do best technically is lighting. I love lighting and all the challenges it presents, and I love to use it to create beauty. I’ve had great success shooting portrait commissions in the classic “Hollywood Glamour” Style and I love working in black and white. I am currently teaching the lighting course at Columbia College in Franklin.

My latest work involves creating abstract photos that I create in the studio by shooting objects through a plane of water. It is unlike anything I’ve done before and anything I’ve seen coming out of a camera.

The setups are complex and I never know where one will take me. They involve backlit glass, blown glass, moving lights all shot thru a clear vase of water.
http://www.roblindsayart.myportfolio.com/

I am also writing a stage play — a comedy about God dropping in for a visit. I’ll have a zoom reading to shake it out later this week. The script is unfinished at this time.

Have you learned any interesting or important lessons due to the Covid-19 Crisis?
Wear a mask. Be patient. Watch out for the crazies!

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: http://www.roblindsaypictures.com/video-page
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roblindsaypictures/
• Other: http://www.roblindsayart.myportfolio.com/

Image Credits
Rob Lindsay Pictures