NEWS: Jill Furmanovsky / Noel Gallagher new Oasis book

Trying To Find A Way Out Of Nowhere, is an essential book featuring more than 500 exceptional Oasis photographs, many previously unseen, spanning from 1994’s Definitely Maybe tour through to the band’s last tense shows in 2009, all taken from the archive of celebrated music photographer Jill Furmanovsky. This compelling selection of images is edited by Noel Gallagher and his accompanying recollections and observations run throughout the book.

OASIS: Trying to Find a Way Out of Nowhere opens with a foreword by Noel Gallagher followed by an introduction by Jill Furmanovsky, whose revealing reflections also accompany many of the electrifying images inside.

‘Oasis permitted closeness and that was a great gift to me as a photographer’ Jill Furmanovsky
‘It’s been an honour to have been associated with Jill for 30 years’ Noel Gallagher

Divided into a chapter for each album, the book includes photographs from recordings, video shoots and tours, incorporating acclaimed and classic shots alongside candid, behind-the-scenes images, many of which are published here for the very first time. With unprecedented access, Jill captures the band’s raw energy, humour and, at times, their vulnerability.

Three illuminating essays chart Oasis’s early, mid and late eras: Born in Madchester by the acclaimed, Manchester-based author Simon Spence; Triumph and Turbulence by publicist and writer Johnny Hopkins; and Chemistry and Chaos by music critic and novelist Laura Barton, who also adds some words on the upcoming reunion followed by a single photograph from the 2025 rehearsals.

Dramatic, iconic, tumultuous: this is the story of Oasis. And this is a book to treasure long after the final encore. ‘If you look at Jill’s Oasis photographs they form one of the great essays in the history of photography’ Gail Buckland, author, curator, photo-historian.

Trying To Find A Way Out Of Nowhere is released on 23 Sept 2025 | 550+ illustrations | £50 HB

Jill Furmanovsky website can be found here