The Walking Dead: Norman Reedus releasing behind-the-scenes photography book

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Norman Reedus is one of the few cast members that has been with AMC's The Walking Dead since season 1 – and he's apparently going to make it all the way through the show, because he and co-star Melissa McBride, who has also been with the show since season 1, are getting their own spin-off after The Walking Dead ends in 2022. Reedus has had a behind-the-scenes view of everything that has happened on the show, and luckily for fans, he is "never without his camera". He is now releasing a photography book called Portraits from the Woods, which is packed with pictures he took behind-the-scenes on The Walking Dead.

In this brand-new electrifying book of photography by Norman Reedus, he captures moments behind the scenes of TWD as only Norman could deliver. With his unique sense of humor, traveling into the Georgian woods with Norman’s cast of characters and zombies, alongside portraits of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hideo Kojima, Lena Dunham, Diane Kruger, Dave Chapelle and many more to reveal the individuals that inhabit his life.

Norman has an indelible way of capturing the beauty and mystery in others. His photographs are beautiful and terrifying, macabre and provoking, alternately dark, and sublime. Like his life on set and in the real world, Reedus’ images vacillate between the real and surreal. Certain portraits remain vivid and clear, while others are washed in intrigue: grainy, hazy and obscured. What unites all of these faces are the eyes that see them: Norman’s. From those eyes come a piercing intimacy, both precious and rare.

The 144 page hardcover first edition of Portraits from the Woods is now available to purchase exclusively from Reedus's website Big Bald Galley for the price of $75. There's also a Special Collector's Edition Clothbound Clamshell Box which includes "the hardcover book, plus a signed archival photograph". Proceeds from the sales are being donated to the COVID-19 Response Fund.

Reedus had this to say about the book: 

I always have my eyes open. Portraits from the Woods is like stepping in my own shoes, seen through my own eyes with my sense of humor."

This sounds like a very cool collector's item for anyone with a great interest in Reedus's career and his work on The Walking Dead.