ROGER – EXPERIENCE
ROGER EATON (born 31st August 1956) British visual artist, photographer, sculptor, film-maker and cinematographer. He was born in Cambridge and has lived and traveled all over the world.
Having trained under the guidance of legendary photographers, Lord Snowdon and Eve Arnold, Roger moved to New York in the early eighties at the height of the creative revolution. He worked closely with Andy Warhol for Interview Magazine while being creatively involved with artists such as Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Rammellzee and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Roger shot covers for Vogue and The Face and also De Beers, Bounty, Renault, Smirnoff Black Label, Clairol and Ray Ban. He photographed some of the world’s most famous faces that including Diana, Princess of Wales, Andy Warhol, Naomi Campbell, Truman Capote, Bridget Fonda, Claudia Schiffer, Nancy Reagan, Andie MacDowell, Linda Evangelista, Pope St Jean Paul II and Kate Moss.
Film
Roger won a Silver Clio award for directing Frog (1998), a commercial he shot, directed and produced for The Green Party through his production company, Vatican.
He filmed The Real Eve (2002) a dramatic recreation documentary about the migration of the human race from the Rift Valley 140,000 years ago, in Kenya for Discovery Channel that was ranked 4th in the highest cable ratings. He was nominated for a Royal Television Society award in Best Cinematography for the documentary Dinosaur Hunters (2003), which he shot in Scotland for Channel Four. The same year The Toy Box, for which Roger was the Director of Photography, won Best Foreign Film at Vancouver International Film Festival. It was hailed by critics as ‘The best handheld work seen on film’. He filmed The Killing of John Lennon (2003/6), which had its world wide premier at The Edinburgh Film Festival 2006 and was nominated for BAFTA’s Michael Powell Award. Roger shot Truck of Dreams (2006) in India. The film won the World Cinema Award at the 2007 Washington DC Film Festival.
Roger sat on the advisory panels for Kodak and The Royal Geographic Society. He has organised annual seminars on cinematography for the Notting Hill Film Festival. He has been featured in various articles and magazines, including Arri News, Fuji – Exposure Mag, Channel 4 – Making Movies and Music on Air.
Faces
Roger has had the privilege of working with many of the film industry elite including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Tom Cruise, Nathalie Portman, Sidney Poitier, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Forest Whitaker, Thandie Newton, Ron Howard, Helen Mirren Gael Garcia Bernal, Daniel Bruhl, Ralph Fiennes. asHe has also worked with Snoop Dogg, Dave Stewart & John Stewart on various features, short films, music videos, teasers and EPKs. Roger shot the feature film ‘Sins Of A Father’ in 2013/14 and footage that made the final cut in ’By The Sea’ (dir. Angelina Jolie – 2015) and ‘First They Killed My Father’ (dir. Angelina Jolie – 2017).