Music photographer Ros O’Gorman passes

Melbourne-based music photographer Ros O’Gorman has passed, just weeks after she was diagnosed with cancer.

Her husband, journalist Paul Cashmere of Noise11, revealed: “My wife of 37 years has left the stage.

“For her, life was first three songs, no flash and then leave.

“She would like you all to know that this time, she hasn’t stayed for the whole show.”

In her teens, O’Gorman fused her two passions – music and photography.

Since 1998, she was a familiar figure at the corner pub, large festivals and international concert stages.

Her works ranged from hard rock to hip hop to mainstream to classical and opera.

Soft-spoken and with a sharp eye for what augmented an act’s image, O’Gorman’s work was very much in-demand by countless newspapers, magazines and websites.

With Cashmere, O’Gorman founded the music sites Undercover in 1995 and The Noise Network in 2011, serving as their principal photographer.

On her website, she recounted: “After all these years, I still love the excitement that shooting a live show gives, but most of all I love experiencing the coming together of all sorts of people from all ages and all walks of life who are brought together with our mutual love of live music.

“Photographing these gigs is my tiny contribution to keeping that moment in time around forever.”