A Ripe Old Age
Photography, especially fashion photography, is a competitive profession peopled by thrusting young men, yet the man who stays securely on top is 66. Famous magazines and fashion houses send Norman Parkinson all over the world, and-the final professional accolade-when he's travel-weary they send the models to him in his home in the Caribbean island of Tobago.
Fyfe Robertson thinks 'Parks' finds his work a lark, but if he does it's a lark he takes seriously when it comes to planning and taking photographs. And he usually gets his own way, as when he insisted, while Robbie was interviewing him, on taking portrait photos at a distance of two feet. But that didn't spoil a lively question-and-answer session with a man who is as revealing and unexpected and witty in words, as he can be in photographs.
Producer TOM SAVAGE