Other Oscar nominations: Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners; the Coen brothers’ Fargo; Martin Scorsese’s Kundun; Stephen Daldry’s The Reader; Sam Mendes’ Skyfall and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, to name a few.

I toyed with the idea of publishing a book on the English seaside, but I thought it might take forever to gather enough photos that I felt confident about. A note from FRAMES: if you have a forthcoming or recently published book of photography, please let us know. British Cinematographer Magazine is endorsed and read by: BSC - British Society of Cinematographers; GBCT - Guild of British Camera Technicians and IMAGO - International Federation of Cinematographers. To a lot of us aspiring cinematographers and filmmakers, he is a tremendous inspiration and influence.BYWAYS includes previously unpublished personal black-and-white stills that reflect a life spent looking and telling stories through images. As part of graphic design, one took photographs as a way of creating a book cover, it wasn’t taking photographs for their own sake. Before he entered the National Film School, he spent a year in North Devon, England, using his still camera to document the way of life on the farms and in the villages. At the time, Roger Mayne, the renowned British social documentary photographer, (best known for his depictions of London’s Southam street during the 1950s) was a guest lecturer at the college, and it was he, who galvanized Deakins’ curiosity.

Sir Roger Alexander Deakins CBE is an English cinematographer best known for his collaborations with directors such as the C oen Brothers, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, Alex Cox, Frank Darabont, Denis Villeneuve, and more. Byways, just like Deakins’ cinematography, takes you on an immersive and thought-provoking journey, from candid moments captured by the seaside or photographs taken during the year he spent documenting rural life in North Devon for Beaford Arts Centre through to images of tranquillity and reflection taken on his travels around the world or between shoots while working on films such as Skyfall, Sicario, and 1917. The great photographers have dedicated their lives to taking still images and I’m not known for that, so for a publisher, I think it was a step in the dark. 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 in 1917. The book signing will be held on the Schwartz Mezzanine, outside the David Geffen Theater, on January 29 from 1pm to 3pm.Part of the reason for creating the book is that I wanted to start again and take new images – a process I’m really enjoying. Nonetheless, he says, “Although photography has remained one of my few hobbies, more often is an excuse to spend many hours just walking, by camera over my shoulder and with no particular purpose but to observe… After we had wrapped our shooting day on Sicario in New Mexico, I would often spend the last of the light looking for another shot, but this time with my still camera. Thoughtful, poetic, and profoundly arresting, they display his distinct enigmatic sensibility, and presented for the most part with little or no information or context (index aside) form a compelling visual soliloquy that conveys with great eloquence, the profound power of the still image.

Byways (2021) is Roger Deakins’ first monograph and his photographs have been exhibited in US and Europe.Byways, his first book, features moments captured from the ‘70s to the present day, with a focus on the coastal and rural splendour of the southwest of England alongside other aspects of life observed along the way.

Roger A Deakins (born 1949 in Torquay, UK) is one of today's most honored cinematographers, renowned for his vast and varied body of work. If you're watching this, I'll assume you know who Roger Deakins is, and so I won't bore you with those details. Byways' is the first monograph by the legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer Sir Roger A Deakins, best known for his collaborations with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes and Denis Villeneuve. The Oscar-winning cinematographer discusses his passion for capturing stills, the inspiration behind his photographic work, and the joy of exploration and observation that has spanned more than five decades.I haven’t really worked with directors that shoot millions of takes or multiple coverage of a scene. Candid close-ups, wide-angle landscapes, and dynamic long exposures, his monochrome photographs display a variety of approaches and techniques, yet first and foremost, testify to the remarkably perceptive artistic gaze that has seen him nominated for an Oscar on fifteen separate occasions (winning twice).