Contact

If you are a photographer and would like your photos from a bout adding to this website please contact me at contact@roller-derby-on-film.co.uk

It is the intention to try and build up a comprehensive overview of all the action from around the UK.

Files can be supplied as CMYK Tiff or RGB Jpeg files on disc. Alternatively you can create your own simpleviewer gallery (please keep it in the same format as the other galleries) and email me the zipped files. No more than 100 images per gallery. You will be credited on the gallery home page with a link to your website and email on the gallery and links page.

About myself

I had never planned on covering Roller Derby. I had never planned on being a photographer. In fact most things in life hadn’t been planned, just a series of inter connected happenings. It wasn’t until a year and a half ago that I discovered what Roller Derby was. Well, to be honest, it was a few people skating around a hall at the time. It was, like many things in life, fate or random meetings that brought me to it. A work colleague had mentioned to me that she had taken up the sport and that the team was on the look out for a photographer. I was kicking around between fashion shoots looking for something to cover and it seemed weird enough to give it a go.

I went to one of the practice sessions on a late November day, not sure what to expect. Returned home, processed the pictures and sent the images off. Not expecting anything else. What I had seen had been embryonic. Five people skating around a desolate hall. It may have been a sport but I wasn’t sure where, if anywhere it was going. A month or so later I received an email from the team asking me to take some team photographs. I arranged an early morning session on a bitterly cold January morning. Perhaps I’m a sadist or perhaps I just get up early and like cold weather. Whatever, it would test their mettle. I must have done something right as I’ve been working with the Sheffield Steel Rollergirls ever since, documenting the rise of the team and the sport itself, covering bouts around the country for teams such as the Leeds Roller Dolls, Middlesbrough Milk Rollers and Lincolnshire Bombers.

Its grass roots, make do and mend attitude appeals to my sensibilities and the camaraderie amongst all those involved is a refreshing change to most sports I have covered. Plus my skating abilities have come on a treat, although I skate better when drunk, but then again that goes for most things in life.

Due to server space issues, I needed to free up space on my own website and so decided to move all the roller derby shots to their own site, which you see here. As the sport has a very much a hands on, grass roots, make do and mend attitude and is funded entirely by the individual teams I operate on non-profit basis. Partly, as it gets me out to cover a growing sport, but also because it is a good laugh and I have met some interesting characters.

For examples of my other work please go to: www.jason-ruffell.co.uk

I can also be booked for private/commercial shoots, please contact me for rates.

Terms and Conditions

All editorial control rests with the owner of this site. While I will endeavour to display work as intended, I reserve the right to edit galleries to maintain quality and to keep them to a reasonable size.

Copyright
Any images or copies of images whether stored digitally or otherwise and any computer program including any source or object code, computer files or printed documentation relating to such images are protected by the Copyright and Design Act 1988. It is contrary to the Act to copy or allow to be copied photographically/electronically or by any other means an image created as part of this website without the permission of the photographer/s in writing.

Negatives/Digital Files
Negatives/digital files remain the property of the photographer/s.