Roger Deakins : The unknown enchanteur.

If you follow my blog for a while, you probably must know the importance I attach to culture, and in general, to remain open and curious to any form of art, a real sink of knowledge, inspiration for any self-respecting photographer.

Of course, cinema is part of it, and among its artists that I love because sublimating their art beyond the imaginary and the already seen, there is the exceptional and unfortunately little known of the general public, director of photography Roger Deakins .

Ryan Gosling, "Blade Runner 2049", coming in October 2017

Anyone who has watched North American films in the last quarter of the century has probably marveled at one point in Roger Deakins' sublime photography. Best known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, he was also director of photography for The Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men, and Skyfall. For each of them (and three other films), Deakins was nominee to the Oscars, sign of the talent and recognition of the man in this world.

Born in Torquay, England, Deakins' love for painting led him to the Bath School of Art & Design, where he discovered photography. After a year lugging his camera to perfect his art, he enrolled at the National School of Cinema and Television Buckinghamshire, then spent seven years as a cameraman. Yet his ultimate wish was to be a painter:

"Most of the things I painted were pretty realistic or naturalistic, so I started taking pictures and that became my passion, technical training is important, but I think the life experience is the winner. largely on any technical training, sometimes it's hard to get what I want. For example, night scenes in True Grit, or No Country for Old Men, were extremely difficult to achieve. I just had enough light to show the action. But it's not the technical challenges that are really difficult, it's the conceptual challenges. "

In addition, Deakins seems to have realized his dream by becoming the director of photography for Denis Villeneuve's upcoming film, the highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to Ridley Scott's masterpiece, which will be released next October.

"I've always wanted to make a sci-fi movie, a real story that happens in an imaginary world."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haXvp8M9Cog

A teaser showing us the extent of his talent through an atmosphere and colors that he has the secret. No doubt all lovers of beautiful photos and great cinematographic works will be at the rendezvous, and the magnificent photographic work of Deakins, who knows how to give to the films in which he participates a visual dimension that only a real photographer can realize, there will probably not be for nothing.

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