ATHENAEUM CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE WELCOMES ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER ROGER DEAKINS

Chicago’s not-for-profit Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture proudly welcomes legendary Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins and his longtime collaborator/wife JamesDeakins (aka ‘Team Deakins’) to open the Roger Deakins Photography Exhibition, showcasing a ‘cinematographer’s travelogue’ of still images shot by Deakins throughout his decades-long career.  Encompassing the same construct of light and dark that is a signature of Deakins’ visual storytelling (exemplified by film classics such as Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, and The Man who Wasn’t There), the Roger Deakins Photography Exhibition is an expansive, curated selection of 41 portraits and landscapes from Deakins’ personal collection. Spanning five decades, 1971 to present, the works are both from Deakins’ first-ever photography monograph – the critically acclaimed BYWAYS (Damiani Books, 2021) – in addition to many images previously unpublished.  ‘Team Deakins’ will take part in a series of film screenings, conversations and BYWAYS book signings October 17-20, 2024, to officially open the exhibition at the Athenaeum Center’s Paradiso Gallery, 2936 N. Southport Avenue, where it will remain on view through April 30, 2025.