MIAMI, Florida — In case you have adopted Method 1 the previous couple of many years, or any sport, then you recognize Clive Rose.
It’s possible you’ll not know him by identify, though many do, however you recognize his work.
Rose is an award-winning photojournalist, whose photos have turn into iconic in not simply the world of F1, however throughout the sporting spectrum. From his images from each the Summer season and the Winter Olympics, to his protection of the World Cup, and different sporting occasions throughout the globe, Rose has taken followers of sport contained in the video games, to probably the most recognizable race tracks on the planet, and he has even pioneered the artwork of underwater sports activities images.
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He’s at the moment the Chief Sports activities Photographer for Getty Photographs, and was in Miami to cowl the 2025 Miami Grand Prix.
Forward of the race, I used to be fortunate sufficient to sit down down with him for a beautiful dialogue, starting from his path to photojournalism, his favourite moments over his illustrious profession, a dialogue of some of my favourite pictures of his, and even a few of his ideas on the 2025 F1 season.
Clive Rose’s path to the highest of the sporting world
Rose’s path to the top of the sports activities world started along with his father. As he advised me on Saturday earlier than the Miami Grand Prix it was his father who “piqued” his curiosity in images, and with Rose having an curiosity in motorsport on the whole, and Method One specifically, making it to the grid was all the time on his thoughts. He studied media and images in faculty in the UK, however quickly a choice loomed.
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That call? Proceed with college and head to College, or begin a profession alongside his chosen path. Rose was lucky sufficient to be supplied a place that he known as a “ junior place with a number one Method One photographer,” nevertheless it was not a simple determination.
“I used to be confronted with a choice to form of do the work expertise route, or do I do the upper schooling route? So I made a decision the hands-on method was most likely one of the simplest ways ahead, and it turned out to be the case,” stated Rose. “And he gave me a job on the finish of 1994, launched me to the world of Method One.”
Rose advised me the place was a “marriage of two passions,” a lesson he hopes to instill in a youthful era, together with his youngsters.
“It was actually like a wedding of like two passions. Which, as a father, I try to inform my youngsters that you want to do one thing that you simply actually get pleasure from.”
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His work targeted on F1 till 2003 when he joined Getty Photographs. That transfer allowed him to develop his catalog of labor, transferring from the grid to occasions together with, however not restricted to, the Summer season Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and the World Cup.
“I joined Getty Photographs in the beginning of 2003, actually to form of broaden my photographic horizons,” stated Rose. “Clearly an organization like Getty Photographs, the chance is huge throughout the sporting spectrum, and that uncovered me to doing, you recognize, the Olympics and the World Cup soccer and all different sports activities, and simply gave me an excellent depth of expertise throughout all the pieces.”
Capturing the F1 grid
As Rose defined to me throughout our dialog on Saturday, his senior position at Getty has him overseeing a complete staff of photographers on a race weekend, ensuring that they fulfill the wants of all of their shoppers, together with Method 1 itself.
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“Once I joined Getty I then like sort of diversified and began doing different occasions, so dropped off the full-time doing Method One. However I stored all my expertise from doing Method One, after which extra just lately I’ve come again to it to handle the staff right here,” stated Rose. “Now we’ve received fairly an enormous staff, we’ve received like 14-15 photographers at every race overlaying many alternative industrial and editorial briefs.
“We do lots of industrial work, however we’re additionally an editorial picture supplier, so we’ve to ensure that the those who do this perceive the significance of that, and like telling the story about what’s going on in Method One, separate to our industrial association.
“So yeah, it’s grown exponentially.”
For Rose and his staff, overlaying a Grand Prix means getting into race weekend with a plan. Not only for the tales they need to inform, however for the way they’ll bodily and logistically cowl the observe.
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“We’re clearly one of many main, if not the main, content material suppliers of Method One. We work for Method One as effectively. So we’ve to stay cognizant of evolving tales and storylines, and we’ve to react to that. We are able to’t simply are available and go, ‘You understand, there’s a elaborate image at Flip 7 at 5 o’clock within the afternoon, so I’m simply going to deal with that.’
“We have now to ensure that we’ve a full image the entire time, so it’s as much as us to stay engaged with the tales and the journalists.”
Then comes how Rose and his staff at Getty will fan out to cowl as a lot of the observe as they’ll, from the beginning grid to the rostrum. He defined to me how the staff places that in movement early within the week, so there aren’t any surprises on race days.
“So, in my capability because the chief photographer, I work with some senior colleagues to work out what all people’s going to do every single day. We do a plan every single day and with lots of photographers, they’ve completely different home windows of alternative,” started Rose. “So for the race, clearly, we have to ensure that lots of the observe is roofed, like angles and this type of factor.
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“Plenty of the blokes need to do the grid earlier than the beginning of the race, in order that limits their journey time to the remainder of the observe. So that can fall to myself and a few of my different colleagues the place we will probably be additional out and they’ll do that part.
“It’s fairly an enormous sort of factor to form of plan out after which all people will gravitate again to the parc ferme and podium on the finish, and will probably be deliberate out who’s capturing the place, in order that all the pieces is roofed off.”
A few of his iconic photos in his personal phrases
The a part of our dialog I used to be most trying ahead to? Once I requested Rose about a few of my favourite F1 images of his from current seasons.
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Very similar to our total dialogue, this portion exceeded all expectations.
The subject of Lando Norris’ win on the 2024 Miami Grand Prix got here up earlier within the dialog, so I started with this picture from final 12 months’s podium celebration:
“I had some I had some good entry final 12 months working for Method One,” started Rose after I requested about this {photograph}.
“You understand, there was a lot speak about him going into this race, he was proper at that stage the place he was practically successful races, however for some motive not successful them, and he clearly had one of many biggest of all time he’s competing towards in Max [Verstappen].
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“And we’d seen him come shut, we’d seen him main races after which the automobile let him down or one thing went mistaken strategy-wise. Max would simply take it to a different stage and would simply recover from the road in entrance of him.
“Even with 5 laps to go, you’re pondering one thing’s gonna occur.
“Is he gonna do it?
“Is he gonna do it?
“So once more, when he will get over the road and he wins the race, you’re like, ‘okay, nice, one thing superior has occurred, so now we’ve gotta go into ensuring that we file this in the precise means.’
“As a result of that is gonna stand the check of time. It will all the time be referred to.
“I imply on this, he’s simply trying down. You’ll be able to see he’s simply … the reduction.
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“‘Thank God I lastly received it performed.’”
In a similar way to Norris’ breaking by way of along with his first win in Method One, was Charles Leclerc’s long-awaited victory on the Monaco Grand Prix, his house race, final 12 months. After so many heart-breaking incidents in his house race, the Ferrari driver lastly reached the highest step of a podium on a circuit that features streets the place he discovered to drive.
Three images of Rose’s stood out to me from that race, and I used to be fortunate sufficient to ask the award-winning photojournalist about every of them.
“So once more, similar state of affairs,” started Rose.
“I’ve performed Monaco fairly just a few instances and I’ve seen how shut he got here to successful, and I used to be on the chicane when he crashed that 12 months [in qualifying]. He hit the barrier on the within after which ignored and went into the wall.
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“With Charles, you recognize, you see these younger weapons are available they usually make these sort of, not errors, however these things occurs to them the place there’s one thing in them or their methods or their simply their timeline is simply not prepared but,” continued Rose.
“Some individuals will are available and win a race immediately, and it’ll be like, ‘Oh they’re the best factor.’ However there’s others, lots of the others, will come so shut lots of instances, and never lots is alleged about it, as a result of till they get to the purpose the place they win, they’re similar to all the opposite newcomers,” stated Rose. “They need to undergo this type of technique of coming so shut however being but to date. And Charles is one other one in all these guys the place he has all the time been seen as tremendous gifted, however simply couldn’t get it over the road for no matter motive.
“So to see him sort of win in Monaco final 12 months was, you knew that it was a fairly particular second.”
In fact, there was context to Leclerc’s win in Monaco that went past a driver lastly successful his house race. There was additionally historical past, and royalty, taking part in their components.
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“What was actually cool about that was that Prince Albert was on the rostrum as effectively, and like that entire form of protocol round him.
“So I’ve performed that podium so many instances and clearly Prince Albert is there, they usually’re in protocol and he arms a trophy, ‘congratulations.’
“However on this one, he was like a child in a sweets store.
“He was genuinely in every single place,” continued Rose. “You understand, form of, trustworthy from him.
“We’re so used to seeing these individuals who run in these circles, form of all the time being fairly steadfast and critical. However I feel I’ve received a body of him sipping the champagne as effectively behind Charles on the rostrum.
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“It was nice, it was good, he was similar to a father actually.”
That was the right lead-in to the subsequent {photograph} I needed to ask.
“What’s all the time fascinating is what occurs now. As a result of you recognize, while you get that sort of monkey off your again from successful the primary race, successful your private home Grand Prix,” stated Rose. “Significantly with Charles in Monaco, as a result of to have a Monégasque driver win the Monaco Grand Prix, you’re not, I’m most likely not going to see one other individual win the Monaco Grand Prix who’s from Monaco in my lifetime.”
Leclerc grew to become simply the second Monégasque driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix, becoming a member of Louis Chiron in 1931.
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“So that you’ve received to acknowledge these items.
“I do know they’re not an enormous deal, the world’s nonetheless gonna flip, however in the event you’re eager about individuals and sport, which I’m, and I feel lots of people are — I feel you want to be, in any other case you couldn’t actually do that job — however yeah, it’s nice when all these sorts of stars align and also you’re there to file that occasion.
“It’s superior.”
It was time to ask about Leclerc’s dive into the harbor after successful in Monaco.
“So it’s a little bit of a tough one as a result of this was after the staff, they did an enormous staff picture, and the rumor was that he was going to enter the harbor and there’s not lots of room round it, and also you didn’t know he was going to return out of the gate, and you then didn’t know the place he was going to go mainly.
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“So it’s very tough to form of predict and like lots of these persons are practically falling within the water making an attempt to get this image.
“It was fairly tough to be in the precise place on that one.
“Even in the event you’re behind it, you see his toes. So it’s fairly a tough one, nevertheless it was a pleasant second.
“I used to be stunned he did that dive, to be trustworthy, I assumed he would possibly simply leap in.
“However what was additionally humorous was Fred [Vasseur, Ferrari Team Principal]. I feel he needed to go in, however I feel in the end he ended up getting shoved in.”
Once I was making ready for this dialog there was one {photograph} that I needed to ask about.
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Rose’s award-winning picture of Verstappen kicking a rear tire after crashing on the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix:
F1 Grand Prix of Azerbaijan
The image was chosen because the winner within the Method One class within the 2022 World Sports activities Pictures Awards, and with good motive. From the emotion from Verstappen, to the framing of the pictures, and naturally the tourism banner within the background, each facet of this image is pitch-perfect.
“The humorous factor about this job is that, you recognize, typically it simply occurs in entrance of you, and you’ve got the precise lens. And also you’re simply, you recognize, you’re simply capable of get in the best way that it was meant,” started Rose.
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“So lots of the pictures we shoot, they’re not like tremendous free.
“You all the time look to fill the body as a photographer, however, when one thing like that occurs not often are you completely on the right lens and framing. Typically it’s somewhat bit free, or it’s somewhat bit tight, no matter. So I used to be simply lucky that I used to be on precisely the precise lens,” continued Rose.
“I don’t know why, however when he received out of the automobile, as a result of he got here to a sliding halt, you’ll be able to see the skid marks he sort of spun round and got here to a sliding halt, and I can’t bear in mind the circumstances of the championship at the moment, however I do know he was charging exhausting in that race and I do know that it felt like fairly an enormous shock that that had occurred.
“I don’t know why when he received out of the automobile, I simply thought, as a result of he sort of walked across the again and I simply had a hunch he was going to kick it.
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“I don’t know why.
“I simply felt he’s most likely going to kick it, you recognize?”
That hunch proved appropriate.
“As quickly as he, I feel he pressed the tire or he checked out it or one thing after which yeah, I simply instinctively stored urgent the shutter. I’ve received one body the place he’s he’s kicking it and the foot’s on the tire, there’s a body earlier than and the body after however you clearly need the foot kicking it.”
The “Expertise Azerbaijan” banner within the background was, as Rose termed it, “fortuitous.”
“And the signal within the background was simply fortuitous.
“It simply occurred, I assume.”
Rose outlined how there are “two levels” to a picture like this coming collectively.
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“There’s two levels to it.
“It’s a case of being ready to some extent, and in addition simply ensuring that when it does occur, you do get it. As a result of it will possibly fall into the lap like that.
“You understand, lots of crash footage, individuals don’t plan to be there essentially. However I assume there’s a component of you make your personal luck,” added Rose. “For those who’re ready.
“I used to be fairly happy with that simply because it’s not the best technical {photograph}, sports activities {photograph}.
“However it’s a second
“It’s a human second.
“And I feel you all the time attempt to file that as a result of that stands the check of time.
“All of us exit and shoot, you recognize, particular person motion footage left and proper, this that and the opposite, nevertheless it’s these footage the place it’s emotion.
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“These don’t occur on a regular basis, that’s essential to catch once they do occur, I feel they’re those that stand the check of time.”
The 2025 F1 season
As our great dialog drew to an in depth, I couldn’t resist taking the chance to ask one of the vital educated and skilled minds concerning F1 his ideas on the present season.
Rose started with a dialogue setting forth the myriad storylines which have already made this a captivating F1 marketing campaign.
“I feel it’s a really fascinating [season], I feel will probably be very a lot primarily based across the sport going into a brand new set of technical rules subsequent 12 months, most likely the most important that there’s been for fairly some time,” started Rose.
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“You’ve got the subplots round Lewis at Ferrari. Is that figuring out? You’ve got a extremely massive subplot about Max, about what he’s gonna do. You’ve got what’s taking place with Pink Bull, the adjustments at Pink Bull, Like that’s nonetheless evolving.
“And technically, groups will get to some extent within the 12 months the place they’ll leap off and put all [their] assets into subsequent 12 months.
“Groups solely have a set quantity of assets, so all of it depends upon when these groups begin leaping off [to focus on 2026 and the new regulations].
“We noticed it just a few years in the past with the change to those rules the place you ended up having Pink Bull and Mercedes preventing all the best way to the tip and having to place assets into it to maintain that title problem alive, after which that most likely had a little bit of a unfavorable influence proper now actually,” added Rose. “I do know that Pink Bull form of managed to maintain issues pretty aggressive, notably within the first years, however I simply assume will probably be fascinating from that perspective.”
Then there may be the story of Hamilton at Ferrari.
“The Lewis Ferrari one is admittedly fascinating.
“It’s not, I wouldn’t say that’s most likely gone the best way that folks thought, it doesn’t appear to be going the best way that folks thought it would.
“I feel all people thought Lewis would possibly are available and dominate Charles, however really Charles was quietly going about his enterprise.
“So yeah, I feel it’s going to be one of the vital fascinating seasons we’ve had.”
In the end like many, Rose believes there may be lots of orange — or papaya to be exact — to return over the remainder of the 12 months.
“My hunch could be McLaren [are] in a really sturdy place. And it’s good to see {that a} staff has come by way of like McLaren. I feel Oscar [Piastri] may be very sturdy.
“It’d be good if Lando will get to ship on what they’ve invested in him and, the best way that he’s introduced the staff by way of, after which clearly Oscar’s now are available and sort of simply quietly going about his enterprise. So I hope form of Lando can get one thing out of it, however we’ll see.
“However I’ll say McLaren.
“It’s pretty simple, however you recognize, with just a few surprises alongside the best way.”
And when these surprises come, Rose and his staff will probably be there to inform these tales.
