About Roger
As a Director of Photography I work in documentary, drama and commercials and have won several awards for my work which include the Royal Television Society award for Photography, the Guild of Television Cameraman Award of Excellence and I have also been nominated twice for BAFTA Factual Photography Craft awards.
The rich experience I have gained from documentary shooting has made me intuitive and has fine tuned my sense of light and composition which informs my drama and commercial work allowing me to shoot films that are creative and expressive.
Between filming assignments I work as a visiting lecturer at the National Film and Television School where I teach cinematography and documentary filmmaking students. I am also a keen stills photographer and have been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society for my work with the moving image.
Current “I” Visa for USA
Journal
‘Lockdown’
March 4, 2021Back on location with Brian Hill currently working on a BBC documentary about the ongoing pandemic. Stories, music and dance with poetry by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. It’s proving to be a long slog with difficult shooting conditions due to Covid restrictions.
If You Can Hear Me
December 24, 2020This short film was funded by Creative England and The BFI. The director, Jesse Lawrence, is a good friend of mine who wrote this script based on a real life event when he came across a dead body as a young man. The budget was very tight and everybody pulled together brilliantly to make it … Read more
‘Terms And Conditions: A UK Drill Story’
September 12, 2020Working with Director Brian Hill, editor Stuart Briggs and fellow DOP’s Michael Timney and Conor Maloney Hill on a documentary about Drill music. Filming and production has finished on this feature length film for YouTube. Another exciting project with Century Films, working with fascinating characters. Lots of good humour on location and in the studio, … Read more
Royal Photographic Society – Fellowship Award
December 20, 2019Very pleased to announce that I was awarded a Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society in December 2019 for my work in the moving image. The Royal Photographic Society – Roger Chapman