He studied Graphic Design at the Bath College of Art and, before continuing on to the National Film School, he spent time shooting still photographs for North Devon, with the intent of capturing the disappearing rural farm life. Others are images that caught his eye as walked on a weekend, or catching the last of the light at the end of a day’s filming whilst working on projects in cities such as Berlin or Budapest, on Sicario in New Mexico, Skyfall in Scotland and in England on 1917.ĪBOUT SIR ROGER DEAKINS: Sir Roger A. Some of the images in this book, such as those from Rapa Nui, New Zealand and Australia, he took whilst traveling with James. After graduating from college, Roger spent a year photographing life in rural North Devon on a commission for the Beaford Arts Centre these images attest to a keenly ironic English sensibility, and also serve as a record of a time and place of vanished post-war Britain.Īlthough photography has remained one of Roger’s few hobbies, more often it is an excuse for him to spend hours just walking, his camera over his shoulder, with no particular purpose but to observe. On the other hand, I have rarely shared my personal photographs and never as a collection.” – Roger A DeakinsīYWAYS includes previously unpublished personal black-and-white stills that reflect a life spent looking and telling stories through images, from 1971 to the present. But even for a photo he waited literally months to get, of a barren tree leaning over a cliff path, there’s a certain quality of serendipity.Oscar Winning Cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins shares images and stories from BYWAYS his lifelong collection of personal photographs About this EventĮVENT OVERVIEW: Oscar Winning Cinematographer Sir Roger Deakins shares images and stories from BYWAYS, his lifelong collection of personal photographs, on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 7:00 PM.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: “My work as a cinematographer is a collaborative experience and, at least when a film is successful, the results are seen by a wide audience. The book signing will be held on the Schwartz Mezzanine, outside the David Geffen Theater, on January 29 from 1pm to 3pm. In his latest film Empire of Light, there is a scene when harsh lighting is required to show a character’s raging paranoia. Many images in his photographic oeuvre have harsh lighting, and Deakins also uses it in his cinematography, but it is finely controlled. Deakins for a signing of his new book, Byways. Join author and Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger A. These things accumulate.ĭeakins’ other current project is the latest in his long collaboration with Mendes, “Empire of Light.” The film draws from events and people in Mendes’ life and represents his only solo writing credit to date (his only other screenplay shared with Krysty Wilson-Cairns for “ 1917,” for which Deakins won his second Oscar). There’s a couple of photographs in the book that remind me of de Chirico, maybe, but is it an influence or just a coincidence? I’m just as influenced by growing up in South Devon and spending my childhood out at sea, fishing. But to say how much they’ve influenced me, that’s hard. There’s so many painters whose work I love and know quite well, whether it’s Francis Bacon or Edvard Munch or Giorgio de Chirico. Surely your influences are every experience you’ve had. It’s funny, when somebody asks, ‘What are your influences?’ I don’t know what to say. Personally, I like showing a director what I am thinking and what the image looks like rather than waiting for any comments they might have in the dailies screening room the next day.” The Rail to Grants, New Mexico, 2014 Reading her Sunday paper, Preston, 2003 The Beginnings in England The Beginnings in England Sometimes he would drive to the same location and wait for late-day thunderstorms to produce the shot he visualized like the lightning bolt. At the end of the shooting day, Deakins would take off with his trusted still camera looking for the last traces of light. There was a bearded lady, there was the sheep with the two heads and strip shows.”ĭenis Villeneuve’s Sicario was shot in New Mexico. At his exhibition at the Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, he says of that print, “I remember when my brother took me to the fairground where I grew up in Torquay you could go in and join the boxing - they would call for somebody in the audience to come up and attempt to outbox their main guy.
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