​​​Dear friends,
Please forgive me for asking to pass on this little message to you, as I wanted this to get directly to you and not passed around to a sea of agents and PR.
I have had the great fortune of being a portrait photographer of actors for over 35 years and have had the honour of photographing the greatest actors of their generation; from Paul Newman, Rod Steiger and Lauren Bacall to Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. I think, when I was 19 and I photographed my very first actor…the wonderful Stephen Fry…that I had the little way of getting something a little different from my portraits which I had not seen before.
Over the years I have used my photography to raise money for many charities over the world. Cancer, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Diabetes UK, Save The Arctic, Guide Dogs, Amfar, SoccerAid, to name just a few. To date I have raised over £79M from doing a job I love. I am currently shooting an exhibition for Steven Tyler’s JANIE’S FUND for abused girls, and this is why I wanted to approach you.
I am arranging an exhibition of my portraits for a show in LA for Janie’s Fund to be the benefactor, they shall receive 100% of the income. I am photographing iconic actors and once again you are on my list of faces I would love to work with. My wish-list of iconic actors from the 40's, 50's 60's and 70's is now completed. Now I wanted to concentrate on modern iconic actors.
To make things easier and less stressful I have asked friends in the 'business' to help me find cool and relevant actors to add to this mammoth project; and this is why you have been invited to this page. Rather than going via agent, manager and then the laborious publicist.
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I shoot in Mayfair but am happy to travel, and I am known for shooting very quickly, Paul Newman actually gave me the nickname OneShot Gotts, because he could not believe the speed of my shoot. I was hoping you may find a free 15 minutes for me to take your portrait for this project? I cannot express how grateful I would be both personally and professionally if we could make this happen.
My phone number is 07932691235 and my email is info@andygotts.com.
You shall get approval of the portrait chosen to use and also you may have shots for your own use too!
Yours hopefully,
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Andy
Dr Andy Gotts MBE MA
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