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A tour of The ET: Photographic


For Local Newspaper Week 2008, we take you behind the scenes at your local newspaper.

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Then there are the photographers. Rowland Hobson is our chief photographer, and has been with the paper since 1980.
There isn't much Rowlie hasn't photographed, and there can't be many of you he hasn't met at one time or another.

He's got six photographers working with him, including his deputy David Lowndes, a chairman of school governors and church warden, an
d the latest recruit to his desk is art history and English graduate Georgi Mabee.

Rowlie said: "The best job I've ever been on was taking picture of Lee Marvin when he was filming The Dirty Dozen in Ferry Meadows in the mid-'80s.

"We were told to clear off, but we hung around and eventually found Lee having a fag in his caravan.

"He was portrayed as the hard man of film, but he was really nice to us, lovely, and invited us to watch him filming afterwards. The perfect job."

See more of our feature: Take a tour of The ET
For Local Newspaper Week 2008, we take you behind the scenes at your local newspaper.

7 May 2008

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  • Last Updated: 07 May 2008 11:52 AM
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