Hollywood based producer/photographer Lee Roth has worked event coverage on the red carpet for several years covering movie premieres, awards shows, charity events and other celebrity functions.
After a four-year hiatus from Hollywood, including a 6-month stint on the red carpet in Las Vegas, Roth returned to the Hollywood red carpet and opened Roth Stock's own Licensing and Download Service for Publishers. For a creative outlet, Roth still loves traveling the Southwestern United States, with a focus on scenic, glamour and high-end portfolio work for a select clientele.
Over the years, Roth has photographed a who's who of Hollywood's top A-list talent including Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio. Screen legends like Clint Eastwood and Sophia Loren have also posed for Lee's cameras.
In recent years, Roth has been honored to be selected for the press corps at the entertainment industry's most prestigious events including the Academy Awards® and Primetime Emmy Awards®. Syndicated worldwide, Lee's celebrity photos frequently appear in such publications as People, In Touch, Us Weekly, In Style, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and other magazines around the globe.
On the technology and production side of things, Lee was heavily involved in many Internet “firsts” in the mid- to late-1990s. Roth was among the first class of 130 people certified by Microsoft at their Redmond, Washington campus as a Windows NetShow Media Developer. Today, Windows NetShow is referred to simply as Windows Media.
Additional firsts include; serving as the Internet Producer for the first live audio/video stream from under US waters to the Net, Internet Consultant and Chat Room Moderator for the first live late night television talk show to go live online, Internet Producer for the first live Internet shows from the Caribbean islands of Aruba and St. Thomas, and he served as personal WebMaster to one of Hollywood’s leading actor/comedians for more than three years with duties that included Chat Room Moderator and User Generated Content Supervisor.
Roth’s first Web site, Adventures Anywhere, went online June 26, 1995. He has maintained an online presence with Web production and streaming media development ever since.
Early in the new millennium, Roth was selected as the stills photographer for an independent movie. This gig awakened a love of motion picture and television production that had been teased with his earlier television and pay-per-view experience in Hollywood, and in the Caribbean.
Roth’s concept for “Glamour Quest TV” came to him in the summer of 2004, when the concept was registered with the Writers Guild of America West. The show was pitched successfully at the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) conference in 2005, and Roth was told by no less than three distributors to proceed to pilot.
Personal tragedy struck within weeks after the NATPE conference, and Roth dropped everything to take care of his father in his final days. Afterwards, Roth found it difficult to return to the day-to-day frenzy of working the red carpet, and he retreated to the mountains of Colorado for some personal time off, away from big cities, crowds of people, and cranky red carpet photographers!
For infrastructure, the Roth Stock Photo Store and the Glamour Quest Photo Store have been opened offering a wide variety of framed prints, giftware, greeting cards and more. Four of the five primary Roth Stock Web sites have undergone complete overhauls, with the fifth one in pre-production now for its overhaul in the months ahead.
Today, the entrepreneurial spirit burns hot in Roth as he continues to develop commerce, sponsorship and advertising opportunities for Roth Stock Digital Media’s growing network of media properties and strategic relationships.
