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I would go off by myself wandering around during the day with my camera and then at night I go in the darkroom when nobody was around, and had the best of both worlds. When I was in art college I smuggled out the key and had it copied so I could go in the darkroom at night. I guess I was brought up admiring the great photographers who worked in black and white, and when I started doing it myself just the processing of color and printing was complicated so I think that pushed me down the avenue of doing black and white. I’ve talked to a couple of photographers and they think it’s very strange. I can’t get my head around shooting color. Story continues The photos in the book are all in black and white, what was it about shooting in monochrome that you were attracted to? When I started taking photographs, I realized I wanted to do a bit more with it and just take photographs for the sake of taking photographs. I went to art college and they put me in a graphic design course which really bummed me out because I wanted to be a painter – I suppose they knew better.Īs part of graphic design, one took photographs as a way of creating a book cover, it wasn’t taking photographs for their own sake. It was there that I discovered photography. I’m pretty sure I never touched a camera until I went to art college. What’s your earliest memory of first picking up a camera? The images capture his love for the enigmatic.ĭeakins talks about why he gravitates to black and white photography, the inspiration for his book and shares his thoughts on iPhone photography. Spanning five decades, the hardcover curated by Deakins and Damiani books is a snapshot of single frames from the beaches and coasts of England to field shots in Germany while on set. 2 and available to pre-order, is a compendium of photos from Deakins’ private collection. He continues to inspire film enthusiasts with his talent and work.His new project, however, is a personal one. He has also received twelve nominations for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. In 2011, he received the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers and has been honoured with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2013 for his contribution to cinema. Apart from cinematography, he has also been the visual consultant for a number of hit animation movies like ‘WALL-E’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ etc. His signature cinematographic style adheres to using simple lighting design, often with only a couple of light sources and shooting films using only spherical lenses. He then started his career in filming documentaries and gradually made his way into Hollywood. Interested in painting and photography since his early life, he studied graphic designing. Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC is a British cinematographer best known for his work in films like ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘No Country for Old Men’, ‘Skyfall’, ‘Sicario’ and more recently, ‘Hail, Caesar!’ He is the preferred cinematographer for the Coen Brothers and other eminent directors like Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve.