My graduation thesis was basically 50 pages on the Shining, liminal spaces, and the uncanny valley; so I can feel confidant in saying: great fucking video man
I was gutted when I first saw Hido's work. Someone had already done everything that I realised I was trying to do with my own photography, and far better than I ever could. I can't relate to your sense of disturbance at these liminal spaces, they feel so homely and welcoming to me.
So much is down to our own personal experiences. I kind of love that about his work. It's like I'm not being lectured to, just invited to feel something.
@@jamiewindsor what do you think about Daido Moriyama? I would love to see a video on his work just like what you did here with Todd. For me, he is one of these photographers that can put tons of emotional content into a single photo (in his case, using very unorthodox techniques).
Took the exact words right out of my mouth. I just got into DSLR's and am even considering film because of him now. But I think we can do it our own way, it can never be the same anyway
I have loved Hido's photography for years and they make me feel cozy and warm too. I guess we can picture ourselves inside and curled up. I live in the North and so during winter these real images are everywhere while I am driving in the country. I also love fog, it makes some feel creepy but it makes me feel like I am in an enchanted world.
Jamie you opened a door to me that I didn't even know was there. Thanks for the insight into this world of Todd Hido, I will now be more aware and cognizant when I see this style of art and understand why I feel the way I feel observing it.
That’s so cool. Those interiors are so creepy, and you can almost smell the old carpets, and stale cigarette smoke. It’s a very strong feeling of discomfort.
I'm a 48 year old photographer who feels like a 12 year old boy when I watch your videos. You just make me look things a way I haven`t seen yet. BTW, I regret not being able to show off your videos to my friends as I'm argentinian and they don't speak english this level. Cheers!
Great video! During our first lockdown in Germany, Playgrounds were closed. I took the chance to get my emotion of uncertainty and darkness and created a small series of abandoned playgrounds. These shots you have featured here do trigger my emotions of this time. Thank you.
We're moving house at the moment and yesterday I set foot in the old house. Now nearly empty except for the furniture that belongs to the landlord. We have lived there for 2 years and made it our own although it was a rental. Seeing it stripped down kind of makes it uncanny. The staircase is mostly as it was, so when I walked down my brain tricked me into thinking I was in the full furnished house again. But I wasn't, of course. It was like I was stepping back in time, but it was an alternate, emptied out universe. No girlfriend or cat present. I got the same with those shots. Thanks for this video!
I lately finished my thesis at school, where I phographed the empty streets while Lockdown in Zürich. I felt the exact same feeling that you describe while I searched in the empty streets for pictures!!
I feel slightly weird for not mentioning lockdown: the elephant in the room when it comes to this subject. I suppose it will just be an appropriate topic at the moment.
Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like a have a new breath of insperation into photography again. Thanks again Jamie its always an enjoyment to watch.
Maybe it's where we are in life. Now, for the pictures of houses with lights on, I feel nostalgia, but that I'm about to go into the house and be with my family. Maybe someday I'll feel a sadder nostalgia if I no longer have a family or a home.
Thank you for this video Mister Windsor Todd Hido is actually one of my favorite photographer. I am glad I know a little bit more about him now. Have a good one Peace
I've come back and watched this video a dozen of times, each time with a new discovery. It's definitely changed how I see and feel about Hido's work and now I'm the biggest fan. Thank you for this masterpiece of a content, Jamie!
Nice vdeo. Good description of that feeling. I definitely experienced it during the first lockdown of 2020, had to pick up something from a shop in a usually bustling shopping centre, it was bizarre, no music, no people murmuring and chattering, absolute silence, with the only noise being the squeak of my shoes on the polished tile floor echoing with extraordinary reverberation. Of course there was also the feeling that 'should I have been there picking up some spectacles for someone else who cannot see? Would the police ask me if this was essential?' This was back in april, when the media had convinced many people we were all going to die.
fantestic video jamie, one of the best even. buthonestly. I've never felt this in todd hido's work. your music tries to imply this and I can emphasize it. however, I've always found his houses comforting because the light shows that there are still people there and you're not alone in the night. so different can be the perception. I am also constantly in dilapidated houses on the road. I find it nice there. 😅
This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.
I love your videos Jamie! TH-cam is awash with videos about gear and tech and settings, so it's really refreshing to find a channel that engages in the art and history of photography and visual culture.
The walking through halls alone definitely is unnerving sometimes. Almost a cold reminder of how much people want to not be alone. Great video. Glad I found your channel.
This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow
I want to praise not only how good the content is, but how amazing is the production quality of your videos. You are a light of quality in the fog of TH-cam channels. Please, do more videos.
I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.
Well ... now i m sure .U are Morgan Freeman of photography man !They way u connect ur narration with the images .. and even more the sounds,or music u use is unique !I really love watching ur work as i know that i will learn something new every time with an unique entertaining and specific way of yours!Great job man ,great job.U are an inspiration to many of us that are just starting.In the end i have to mention of course that i didn't know about Todd Hiddo but i definetely know that i admire him a lot.All these emotions from his work .. this is the reason of a photogfrapher.Creating feelings.Thanks for sharing man
Jamie, you are undoubtedly my favourite photography content producer here in TH-cam. Great quality, and the most interesting topics Keep up the good work!
The algorithm failed me as a subscriber to this channel. I’ve been in a liminal space and wondered why? Now, I realize it was because I had not watched one of your videos in a while(Patreon here I come). Glad I came across this. Hido is new to me, but I’m glad you profiled him here. This is the type of photography I love. I call it dark moody realism (simply because I couldn’t find a “proper” name for it). I will definitely check out more of his work. I’m glad you mentioned Stranger Things because I think I love the series because of the photography just as much as I love the plot and characters. The unsettling images keep me riveted to the screen. Thanks, as always, for such an in-depth discussion of photography. You’re the best!
Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that TH-cam doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.
Thank you for introducing me proper to Hido's work. I had seen his images before, and in the fleeting transiense that is viewing photos online I didn't make note of who the artist was. As soon as I saw the thumbnail for the video I recognised the photo instantly. I went down a bit of a Todd Hido rabbit hole after watching this video and have ended up ordering a copy of House Hunting. So, again, thank you Jamie.
The amount of time and effort you put into your videos always amazes me man, you're genuinely one of my favourite people on this here platform. Such a creative way to mask and this aspect ratio is perfect for referencing stuff like films and pictures
I'm feeling something els sometimes looking at his pictures : It's like the person behind the window is the last person on earth and I am here watching him, like a stranger, a ghost or maybe some psycho....
Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.
I had a similar experience as a teen- a crumbling factory that seemed haunted yet eloquent, the melancholy of disuse, riffing on memory, loss, failure of lofty ambitions.
Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.
I knew about Houses at night and I always felt calm but uneasy at the same time. But could never describe it. You’ve just put it brilliantly. This is the best kind of videos, Great job and thank you for your insights
This was a perfect foil to a book I am reading called 'The Heart of the Photograph' by David duChemin specifically the chapters on mood and mystery. Even otherwise when I am out for my photo walks, I find houses or windows at night very mysterious, even sad and melancholic more than the empty dark roads. What I liked most about this video was your spot-on, thought provoking commentary supporting Hido's art. Let's not forget the whole is as much an art as a part. Thank you, Jamie.
I’ve never thought about this before but it’s interesting doing so. I know it’s becoming popular to not be a people person (and I am a people person for the most part), but I find most of these images comforting. It’s all this space in which I could just be myself and not constantly feeling like I’m at odds with society. They look like rooms filled with air I can take a deep breath of and let out a sigh of relief. There’s also something cosy about the ones that don’t have decay in them, and in all of them the possibility for something new. I’d never thought about this stuff this way before, thank you.
It taps into that F E E L I I N G. When you walk home from your friends house as a kid. At night and you see a neighborhood house with a blue window where the tv is illuminating the window on the top floor. You wonder what it’s like in there but you are in the cold. It’s like anti cozy but it’s also comforting.
I love how you inspire others to ask questions. You leave people with more questions, but necessary ones. There was a time when I was thinking "I want to be a photographer", it evolved to "How can I be a better photographer", but this led me to a path of equipping myself with more equipment that I had time (I am doing it as a hobby) and ability to facilitate. I couldn't find myself, didn't know what kind of photography I want to do, many pictures I have taken, felt good technically but I am tainted with all that notion to satisfy people over internet and constant question "what people would find attractive?". I forgot in this chase for "better" thinking about viewer, what is actually better for me. Watching you simply reminded me, that there are no universal answers, there are only interpretations and I should focus on how I want to show "my world". Thanks for helping me to look at these from different perspective, where I can at least try to find something for myself, not something others expects me to be as photographer.
As you increase your skill in photography you come to realize that it is not the photo editor that will make you photo but rather it is the image you see before your eyes. It is the ability to faithfully capture that very scene. It is the light, the tone, the composition, the story.
Thank you Jamie, for you are the art teacher that shows me beautiful and interesting work from so diverse artists and explain their work, so that I can appreciate and learn from it.
Incredible video, love photography but haven’t taken many pictures recently wether a lack of opportunity or sheer laziness watching your videos sparks that want to go out and take truly unique pictures again. Keep making videos they really do mean something to me
I couldn't explain this feeling I've had my whole life prior to your video. Nostalgia wasn't the right word although sometimes it feels that way. It was, instead, an uneasy nostalgia. Then you used the term Liminal Spaces. Some of my own photos have this feeling and my personal favorite best work often has this feeling in it very intentionally while at the same time never quite putting my finger on why I like it. A long way to say thank you for this video.
As always, great content Jamie! Keep up the good work! I totally agree with you on the fact that everybody interprets Todd Hido's work differently and that this is the beauty of it. For example to me, the pictures of the houses at night evoke a feeling of discomfort, but at the same time a sense of security. I think what strikes me the most and what evokes these different feelings is that even in those rather frightening looking surroundings, people find ways to make these places their home. But that's just my interpretation of it... A really interesting quote about this series of Todd Hido himself is that these pictures of the houeses are not about houeses at all, but about people... Such a fascinating artist. Greetings from Germany!
I just want to say that I appreciate you still making this kind of content, Jamie. Tips videos, photography hacks videos, etc, will perform much better, and they have their place, but I really appreciate that you produce videos about the softer points of the trade. Much love from Canada.
Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.
Excellent presentation Jamie of the great Todd Hido series and I liked your take on a similar feeling his work evokes. It's funny we look differently at Americana to our own towns and cities but at night there's so much material to explore and capture.
I'd recommend his book "...On Landscapes, Interiors and the Nude." Interesting to read what he thinks about his work. He suggests that he stumbled into his nighttime exteriors because he wasn't done shooting one day but once he found his metier he's incredibly thoughtful about the work. Well worth searching the book out, I think. And I'd recommend the new Arlo Parks video - Caroline. Clearly influenced by his interiors: first with people then without them at the end for added creepiness. Thanks for this - amazing video as ever.
Any image that offers a ? mark in it as Hopper and Hido's images do, will send the viewer onto a journey into the unknown to explore. As viewers we choose our own individual path which might lead to us to a solution. Lovely, love these images and video.
Your latest videos like this one and the one with the portraits of Joel Sternfeld feel like a breath of fresh air. I really like the fact that you talk about the art of photography with such a great touch and presentation. Its really inspiring to find a modern channel that talks about the essence of photography and not talking about "latest and greatest" gear all the time. Im looking forward to see more videos like this one. It would be great if you make videos about deadpan photography, the new topographics movement or photographers such as Alec Soth, Richard Misrach, Paris Petridis, Lynne Cohen, Robert Adams, etc. Keep up your great work!
I really enjoyed this video, it was very thought-provoking, thank you
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I think the fear (which to me is more of a sadness) we feel might be more related to a sensation of emptiness rather than loneliness. I had this thought exactly because of the clips from 28 days later you used, which don't evoke feelings of dread or melancholy in me, because I see this person, I see life, I see the city, I see opportunities to do things we can't do normally almost like I see the good in isolation. Yet within Hido's perspective, I see something painfully melancholic in this emptiness, it's just not the same kind of isolation.
Its not hard to look into a Todd Hido photograph and not think of the desolation and abandonment left behind by the lives lived and departed from the spaces seen in the photos. Here I suspect, the simple clarity of loss looms large for most of us, as does our own desires to fill the voids with our imagination, and personal inflections. For me personally, I think his photos open doors into the dark shaded corners of my own memories those of my adolescent mind, long trapped and almost forgotten.
Loved the video. I found it interesting how the feeling toward luminal spaces is universal and doesn’t have cultural boarders. Thanks for the video! Really interesting.
My graduation thesis was basically 50 pages on the Shining, liminal spaces, and the uncanny valley; so I can feel confidant in saying: great fucking video man
I would love to read it. 🙌
Same here ! That sounds extremely interesting ! :D
Can we see it?
send us a link!! would love to read that
Woah man that's pretty rad. Can we read it?
I was gutted when I first saw Hido's work. Someone had already done everything that I realised I was trying to do with my own photography, and far better than I ever could. I can't relate to your sense of disturbance at these liminal spaces, they feel so homely and welcoming to me.
So much is down to our own personal experiences. I kind of love that about his work. It's like I'm not being lectured to, just invited to feel something.
It's a different feeling for everyone I guess. Large empty urban spaces/buildings definitely creep me out.
@@jamiewindsor what do you think about Daido Moriyama? I would love to see a video on his work just like what you did here with Todd. For me, he is one of these photographers that can put tons of emotional content into a single photo (in his case, using very unorthodox techniques).
Took the exact words right out of my mouth. I just got into DSLR's and am even considering film because of him now. But I think we can do it our own way, it can never be the same anyway
I have loved Hido's photography for years and they make me feel cozy and warm too. I guess we can picture ourselves inside and curled up. I live in the North and so during winter these real images are everywhere while I am driving in the country. I also love fog, it makes some feel creepy but it makes me feel like I am in an enchanted world.
This is the sort of content I have been waiting for. I bloody love these types of videos Jamie. Bloody good stuff ♥️
Agreed. So good
Absolutely!
True ❤️👍
I love it but I don’t know why.
Jamie you opened a door to me that I didn't even know was there. Thanks for the insight into this world of Todd Hido, I will now be more aware and cognizant when I see this style of art and understand why I feel the way I feel observing it.
That’s so cool. Those interiors are so creepy, and you can almost smell the old carpets, and stale cigarette smoke. It’s a very strong feeling of discomfort.
The feeling of someone being there when you should be alone is the worst feeling
I will not see an empty room in the same way, ever again...
It won't look at you the same way either
I'm a 48 year old photographer who feels like a 12 year old boy when I watch your videos. You just make me look things a way I haven`t seen yet. BTW, I regret not being able to show off your videos to my friends as I'm argentinian and they don't speak english this level. Cheers!
Use subtitles and Google Translate?
@@FutureChaosTV not always available. Thank you anyway. 😉
Great video! During our first lockdown in Germany, Playgrounds were closed. I took the chance to get my emotion of uncertainty and darkness and created a small series of abandoned playgrounds. These shots you have featured here do trigger my emotions of this time. Thank you.
I practically did the same, I was especially drawn to the red/white tape. Grüße aus Darmstadt
We're moving house at the moment and yesterday I set foot in the old house. Now nearly empty except for the furniture that belongs to the landlord. We have lived there for 2 years and made it our own although it was a rental. Seeing it stripped down kind of makes it uncanny. The staircase is mostly as it was, so when I walked down my brain tricked me into thinking I was in the full furnished house again. But I wasn't, of course. It was like I was stepping back in time, but it was an alternate, emptied out universe. No girlfriend or cat present. I got the same with those shots. Thanks for this video!
LOVE the 4:3 format
I lately finished my thesis at school, where I phographed the empty streets while Lockdown in Zürich. I felt the exact same feeling that you describe while I searched in the empty streets for pictures!!
I feel slightly weird for not mentioning lockdown: the elephant in the room when it comes to this subject. I suppose it will just be an appropriate topic at the moment.
Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like a have a new breath of insperation into photography again. Thanks again Jamie its always an enjoyment to watch.
I find it fascinating that you feel uneasy, even terrified when looking at Hidos photos. But when I look at it, I feel sadness and grief.
Maybe it's where we are in life. Now, for the pictures of houses with lights on, I feel nostalgia, but that I'm about to go into the house and be with my family. Maybe someday I'll feel a sadder nostalgia if I no longer have a family or a home.
Jamie, your channel is the very definition of great content. A perfect balance between aesthetics and information.
This was such a fantastic presentation! Deserves SO many more views :)
Thank you for this video Mister Windsor
Todd Hido is actually one of my favorite photographer. I am glad I know a little bit more about him
now.
Have a good one
Peace
I've come back and watched this video a dozen of times, each time with a new discovery. It's definitely changed how I see and feel about Hido's work and now I'm the biggest fan. Thank you for this masterpiece of a content, Jamie!
Nice vdeo. Good description of that feeling. I definitely experienced it during the first lockdown of 2020, had to pick up something from a shop in a usually bustling shopping centre, it was bizarre, no music, no people murmuring and chattering, absolute silence, with the only noise being the squeak of my shoes on the polished tile floor echoing with extraordinary reverberation. Of course there was also the feeling that 'should I have been there picking up some spectacles for someone else who cannot see? Would the police ask me if this was essential?' This was back in april, when the media had convinced many people we were all going to die.
This is the type of stuff youtubers need to put out. More of these in depth videos James. Keep it up
fantestic video jamie, one of the best even. buthonestly. I've never felt this in todd hido's work. your music tries to imply this and I can emphasize it. however, I've always found his houses comforting because the light shows that there are still people there and you're not alone in the night.
so different can be the perception. I am also constantly in dilapidated houses on the road. I find it nice there. 😅
There are a lot of people who find his work very comforting. This vast discrepancy in responses is one of the reasons I like it so much.
Brilliant content, your videos are always such a joy to watch - very thankful!
This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.
I love your videos Jamie! TH-cam is awash with videos about gear and tech and settings, so it's really refreshing to find a channel that engages in the art and history of photography and visual culture.
What an amazing journey you gifted us, Jamie
The walking through halls alone definitely is unnerving sometimes. Almost a cold reminder of how much people want to not be alone. Great video. Glad I found your channel.
Another brilliant, thought provoking film Jamie...you’re a natural educator!
Jamie Windsor photo essays are simply the best.
This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow
I want to praise not only how good the content is, but how amazing is the production quality of your videos. You are a light of quality in the fog of TH-cam channels. Please, do more videos.
I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.
Well ... now i m sure .U are Morgan Freeman of photography man !They way u connect ur narration with the images .. and even more the sounds,or music u use is unique !I really love watching ur work as i know that i will learn something new every time with an unique entertaining and specific way of yours!Great job man ,great job.U are an inspiration to many of us that are just starting.In the end i have to mention of course that i didn't know about Todd Hiddo but i definetely know that i admire him a lot.All these emotions from his work .. this is the reason of a photogfrapher.Creating feelings.Thanks for sharing man
Recently read the aperture book written by Hido. Loved it. Great work putting this together.
Jamie, you are undoubtedly my favourite photography content producer here in TH-cam. Great quality, and the most interesting topics
Keep up the good work!
The algorithm failed me as a subscriber to this channel. I’ve been in a liminal space and wondered why? Now, I realize it was because I had not watched one of your videos in a while(Patreon here I come). Glad I came across this. Hido is new to me, but I’m glad you profiled him here. This is the type of photography I love. I call it dark moody realism (simply because I couldn’t find a “proper” name for it). I will definitely check out more of his work. I’m glad you mentioned Stranger Things because I think I love the series because of the photography just as much as I love the plot and characters. The unsettling images keep me riveted to the screen. Thanks, as always, for such an in-depth discussion of photography. You’re the best!
Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that TH-cam doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.
Thank you for introducing me proper to Hido's work. I had seen his images before, and in the fleeting transiense that is viewing photos online I didn't make note of who the artist was. As soon as I saw the thumbnail for the video I recognised the photo instantly. I went down a bit of a Todd Hido rabbit hole after watching this video and have ended up ordering a copy of House Hunting. So, again, thank you Jamie.
You’re a genius. Articulate, thoughtful, and incredibly humble.
The amount of time and effort you put into your videos always amazes me man, you're genuinely one of my favourite people on this here platform. Such a creative way to mask and this aspect ratio is perfect for referencing stuff like films and pictures
Thank you.
I'm feeling something els sometimes looking at his pictures : It's like the person behind the window is the last person on earth and I am here watching him, like a stranger, a ghost or maybe some psycho....
A stalker, it's eerie
Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.
Paused this so many times throughout to really think about the points being made! Some perfect analogies! Great video as ever!
I had a similar experience as a teen- a crumbling factory that seemed haunted yet eloquent, the melancholy of disuse, riffing on memory, loss, failure of lofty ambitions.
Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.
I thought this video was excellent!! I love Hido and Hopper! Thank you for your amazing analysis.
I knew about Houses at night and I always felt calm but uneasy at the same time. But could never describe it. You’ve just put it brilliantly.
This is the best kind of videos, Great job and thank you for your insights
This was a perfect foil to a book I am reading called 'The Heart of the Photograph' by David duChemin specifically the chapters on mood and mystery.
Even otherwise when I am out for my photo walks, I find houses or windows at night very mysterious, even sad and melancholic more than the empty dark roads.
What I liked most about this video was your spot-on, thought provoking commentary supporting Hido's art. Let's not forget the whole is as much an art as a part. Thank you, Jamie.
I’ve never thought about this before but it’s interesting doing so. I know it’s becoming popular to not be a people person (and I am a people person for the most part), but I find most of these images comforting. It’s all this space in which I could just be myself and not constantly feeling like I’m at odds with society. They look like rooms filled with air I can take a deep breath of and let out a sigh of relief. There’s also something cosy about the ones that don’t have decay in them, and in all of them the possibility for something new. I’d never thought about this stuff this way before, thank you.
It taps into that F E E L I I N G. When you walk home from your friends house as a kid. At night and you see a neighborhood house with a blue window where the tv is illuminating the window on the top floor. You wonder what it’s like in there but you are in the cold. It’s like anti cozy but it’s also comforting.
yes!
I love how you inspire others to ask questions. You leave people with more questions, but necessary ones.
There was a time when I was thinking "I want to be a photographer", it evolved to "How can I be a better photographer", but this led me to a path of equipping myself with more equipment that I had time (I am doing it as a hobby) and ability to facilitate. I couldn't find myself, didn't know what kind of photography I want to do, many pictures I have taken, felt good technically but I am tainted with all that notion to satisfy people over internet and constant question "what people would find attractive?".
I forgot in this chase for "better" thinking about viewer, what is actually better for me. Watching you simply reminded me, that there are no universal answers, there are only interpretations and I should focus on how I want to show "my world".
Thanks for helping me to look at these from different perspective, where I can at least try to find something for myself, not something others expects me to be as photographer.
Just got Tod's early works and now a video from the best photography yt creator. Feeling blessed
This is one of your best videos yet. Absolutely love it.
As you increase your skill in photography you come to realize that it is not the photo editor that will make you photo but rather it is the image you see before your eyes. It is the ability to faithfully capture that very scene. It is the light, the tone, the composition, the story.
Thank you Jamie, for you are the art teacher that shows me beautiful and interesting work from so diverse artists and explain their work, so that I can appreciate and learn from it.
Just discovered Todd Hido a couple of weeks ago, amazing to get this kind of analysis - comes right on time for uni deadlines 😅 Thanks Jamie
Incredible video, love photography but haven’t taken many pictures recently wether a lack of opportunity or sheer laziness watching your videos sparks that want to go out and take truly unique pictures again. Keep making videos they really do mean something to me
Seeing these photos somehow makes me understand photography a lot more
Man said my memories of the time are patchy. Thats the about great childhoods and younger years they are patchy.
Love the video as always.
I couldn't explain this feeling I've had my whole life prior to your video. Nostalgia wasn't the right word although sometimes it feels that way. It was, instead, an uneasy nostalgia. Then you used the term Liminal Spaces. Some of my own photos have this feeling and my personal favorite best work often has this feeling in it very intentionally while at the same time never quite putting my finger on why I like it.
A long way to say thank you for this video.
Two words to use for this are _kenopsia_ and _anemoia._
Wonderful music choice Jamie!!
Wonderful Jamie, love this . I always feel inspired when I watch your films.
loved this. his work (and liminal spaces in general) feel so peaceful to me.
Jamie thanks a lot, for opening the world of photography through your videos. You're a master.
This deserves way more views :(
Thank you very much for opening my eyes Jamie! I'm feeling inspiration coming back again.
Man how is every single one of your videos a piece of pure art. Well done.
As always, great content Jamie! Keep up the good work!
I totally agree with you on the fact that everybody interprets Todd Hido's work differently and that this is the beauty of it. For example to me, the pictures of the houses at night evoke a feeling of discomfort, but at the same time a sense of security. I think what strikes me the most and what evokes these different feelings is that even in those rather frightening looking surroundings, people find ways to make these places their home. But that's just my interpretation of it...
A really interesting quote about this series of Todd Hido himself is that these pictures of the houeses are not about houeses at all, but about people... Such a fascinating artist.
Greetings from Germany!
You would be such a great lecturer and professor at a University... you argument so creatively and bring up juicy alternative themes in photography
thank you for putting into words what so many of us only have a feeling about. Really really helpful.
I just want to say that I appreciate you still making this kind of content, Jamie. Tips videos, photography hacks videos, etc, will perform much better, and they have their place, but I really appreciate that you produce videos about the softer points of the trade. Much love from Canada.
Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.
You're my favourite TH-cam-Artist. Thanks for continuing to make these!
I love that in every video you make me discover a new photographer!!
Once again, great video, very well narrated and explained.
These haiku slices of perception and visual inventiveness are such a treat when posted.. You deserve a much wider audience. Thank you.
One of the best presenting manner on YT. 👏🏻
Excellent presentation Jamie of the great Todd Hido series and I liked your take on a similar feeling his work evokes. It's funny we look differently at Americana to our own towns and cities but at night there's so much material to explore and capture.
Hey Jamie, I knew of Todd Hido but never dove deep into his work. This was the gateway for me, and I thank you for crafting this great video.
I came across your long exposure video and now this one. These are fantastic in the way they are shown. Incredibly inspiring and well described.
My friend JUST recommended that I look this guy up, then here you are with a video. Great timing
Thanks for another great video Jamie! Really enjoy being introduced to new photographers and their work.
Really captivating video, great stuff!
I got this feeling when photographing Athens in lockdown in March.
I'd recommend his book "...On Landscapes, Interiors and the Nude." Interesting to read what he thinks about his work. He suggests that he stumbled into his nighttime exteriors because he wasn't done shooting one day but once he found his metier he's incredibly thoughtful about the work. Well worth searching the book out, I think.
And I'd recommend the new Arlo Parks video - Caroline. Clearly influenced by his interiors: first with people then without them at the end for added creepiness.
Thanks for this - amazing video as ever.
Any image that offers a ? mark in it as Hopper and Hido's images do, will send the viewer onto a journey into the unknown to explore. As viewers we choose our own individual path which might lead to us to a solution. Lovely, love these images and video.
I think it’s the creepy music you chose that gave me the chills Jamie!
I actually played the music along to mirror my feelings about the images.
@@jamiewindsor, What do you source your music from?
@@alexmetcalfe4668 I play it. I record it in GarageBand.
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Loved this essay Jamie!
Yup, you're officially my favourite youtuber
Thank you, Jamie. Another extraordinary deep dive behind the pixels.
Really enjoyed this. Thanks.
Your latest videos like this one and the one with the portraits of Joel Sternfeld feel like a breath of fresh air. I really like the fact that you talk about the art of photography with such a great touch and presentation. Its really inspiring to find a modern channel that talks about the essence of photography and not talking about "latest and greatest" gear all the time. Im looking forward to see more videos like this one. It would be great if you make videos about deadpan photography, the new topographics movement or photographers such as Alec Soth, Richard Misrach, Paris Petridis, Lynne Cohen, Robert Adams, etc. Keep up your great work!
I really enjoyed this video, it was very thought-provoking, thank you
I think the fear (which to me is more of a sadness) we feel might be more related to a sensation of emptiness rather than loneliness. I had this thought exactly because of the clips from 28 days later you used, which don't evoke feelings of dread or melancholy in me, because I see this person, I see life, I see the city, I see opportunities to do things we can't do normally almost like I see the good in isolation. Yet within Hido's perspective, I see something painfully melancholic in this emptiness, it's just not the same kind of isolation.
Its not hard to look into a Todd Hido photograph and not think of the desolation and abandonment left behind by the lives lived and departed from the spaces seen in the photos. Here I suspect, the simple clarity of loss looms large for most of us, as does our own desires to fill the voids with our imagination, and personal inflections. For me personally, I think his photos open doors into the dark shaded corners of my own memories those of my adolescent mind, long trapped and almost forgotten.
Thank you for introducing me to Todd's work - it's right up my street. Will definitely look to add some of his work to my photo book collection.
Love those videos you make about the philosophy of photography Jamie. Thank you for the great content.
This is very similar to the work I was doing in the 80s and early 90s, which I called 'Human Absence'. Fascinating, and thanks for sharing, Jamie.
Truly amazing work! Also, to me they look and feel like the exact opposite of Thomas Kinkade's paintings. Fascinating
I had never heard of Todd Hido - thanks for bringing him into my life!
Loved the video. I found it interesting how the feeling toward luminal spaces is universal and doesn’t have cultural boarders. Thanks for the video! Really interesting.
Please keep on doing this kind of videos, great great work ! Many thanks