| For the past 25 years, Jay Rusovich has been an award-winning freelance photographer and writer, working throughout the world for Advertising Agencies, Public and Private companies, Institutions and Publishing Houses.
Jay was born to Basil J. Rusovich and Marilyn Schuster Rusovich in New Orleans, Louisiana where he and his two brothers were raised. Rusovich received his degrees from Tulane University in English and Theater. He also attended Oxford University in England, The University of Arizona and Loyola University in New Orleans. After graduating, he moved to New York City to work as an actor, while attending acting classes at the world famous Lee Strasberg Institute, The Actor’s Institute for Shakespearean Studies, and several others. While honing his craft, he took bit roles in movies, advertising commercials and soap operas, before falling in love with photography in 1981. With a used Nikon 35mm camera, and no formal training, he began booking photo sessions with aspiring actors who were always in need of new headshots. Without formal training, Rusovich “learned as I went,” which would become a trademark that would jettison him to the top of his field. For the next 25 years, Rusovich established himself as an “environmental Portraitist, with an ability to connect subject with surroundings throughout the world... "on a dime,” as he puts it. From the very famous, to the very indigent, Rusovich and his crew blended location with subject in every conceivable location, using New York and Los Angeles as home bases. During this time he had photographed over 200 national magazine covers in the Health and Fitness sector alone, and was underwritten by some of the nations’ largest public corporations to stage exhibitions of his industrial work at such places as The Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona and The Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida. In 2005, Rusovich retired from commercial photography to concentrate on fine art photography and writing. Later that year he launched Jayrusovichlive.com, a blog site he describes as a satiric, boots-on-the-ground assessment of life and love in Urban America. In 2009, he published an elaborate art book of his fine art photographs titled, InsideOut, which are sold at independent bookstores, on Amazon.com, and on his fine art site, Jayrusovich.com. He regularly exhibits at prominent galleries throughout the United States, and has a prominent list of international collectors. He currently resides in Houston, Texas, where he is represented by The Deborah Colton Gallery. |
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