Colin Greenwood to publish a book of his Radiohead photographs

Colin Greenwood has announced How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, a book of his photographs of the band, out on 15 October. For years now, I’ve been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I’ve tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 Super.¹

The Yashica is a compact film camera, and the others were often too lost in playing to notice it. The pictures run from 2003 to 2016, from the Hail to the Thief period to A Moon Shaped Pool, and show the band writing, rehearsing, recording, performing and at rest. The first ones he has released show Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway, Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke, Yorke in the hat from the “Lotus Flower” video.

The book is a 136-page hardback with close to a hundred photographs, published by John Murray Press. A signed limited edition comes with a separate 32-page booklet of Colin's light-show photographs.

Colin's essay ties the pictures into a portrait of the band at work, changing whatever room they were in, a barn, a country house or an empty arena. He calls the span our middle years: all the joy and doubt and confidence and uncertainty we would oscillate between¹.