This was tremendous. Love Soth so much. Loved his presence on TH-cam during the pandemic. It was not only insightful, but fun and very open and unprecious. I love everything you are touching on here. The depth of field/ depth of feeling concept is often a point of discussion for me. As is intuition and vertical progress. I think if there is any struggle for aspiring artists in the creative environment right now it has less to do with the technology and more to do with the relationship to the work in ways you touched on beautifully here. Lovely work as always.
Agreed with your points my friend, I appreciated his videos during the pandemic too I feel like that’s the moment I really got to know his work, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and watching the video! All the best!
Yeah I’m trying to get to different areas and explore more contemporary work or even photographers that were active in the past say 70s or 80s but still work today! Thanks for watching!
I really enjoyed this video because it touched a bit on how photography can express ones loneliness or aloneness. We an see in Soth's work the way he tries to connect with his subjects and the moment, its very grounding. I think sometimes as creatives when we get into a funk or a blue mood or struggle with mental health we feel we cannot create or take a good photo but what I got from this video is we can keep at it and take away something valuable form each photo or photo project, even if we abandon the project for awhile. We have to embrace the imperfections in the photo but also in ourselves and our lives.
I connected heavily with the idea of vertical & horizontal progress. I’ve been working on a project for years now and have found myself in some sort of limbo between the two without any vocabulary to describe it. I imagine it will be super helpful towards the work to identify which spectrum I’m leaning closer towards at the time, give it the moment it deserves, and then explore into the other direction. Happy to see you back with another video 🥰 They are always an inspiration to give my work more attention. Wishing you the best!!
Thank you so much Kevin, I feel you, I’ve been working on something it seems for ages but it’s the case of giving time to time. Really relate to your words, but keep the work going and focusing on your path that’s my word of advice! Wishing you the best too! Take care!
4:07 - I so expected the point of focus to be on the blank canvas. But here it plays a secondary supporting role. That was unexpected for me. ... the key lesson for me personally in this video was not to get so caught up in the technical side of photography - it's about conveying an idea, more importantly. It's quite a freeing message. Thank you.
I enjoyed this presentation and would definitely like to see more of his work featured in a future video. Soth is another of the photographers that you have featured that I had not seen before. I love these videos and thank you for all of your hard work. ✌️🌹
Excellent video.....good points and topics. It's important to build an archive (and organize it). You will be surprised after you've been shooting for over a half century (like me) what you will discover when you look back at your body of work. You will discover shots that you overlooked at the time and now jump out at you either from an historical point of view but also possibly a new artistic interpretation. You will also have new ways and tools to use on old images. When we were shooting film 50 years ago we could never have dreamed what would be possible with digital tools in the future. Same now, who knows what lies ahead in the future of photography and how it can be applied to the images you are shooting today. ✌
Totally agree, actually that makes a great insight for a video which I might mention and give you the credit at some point whenever it suits the topic I talked about, thanks for sharing that with us Joseph, I often thought of what tools are we going to have in the future that can help with our photography of today - like most film photographers from before didn’t imagine we could ever have photoshop. Anyways thank you for watching!
Depth of feeling. Always. But then, that is my approach to photography from the very beginning. I am fascinated by and interested in the technical. but for me, my engagement with my subject, with who or what I am photographing, is crucial. It is the seeing and the process that make my heart soar. This was true when I barely knew what I was doing with my used 2nd generation digital camera with its dinky kit lens and is still true today when I know a little more (and keep learning) and mess up (sometimes) with my full frame mirrorless with great lenses. It is about the heart of it all, the emotional connection. Indeed, when I do portraits, I ma humbled by how people are willing to put their representation in my hands, by how they trust me to make a good portrait of them, or, as I sometimes tell them, I will not release it to the wild. But I think they can sense that I want to make them look good, complex, deeply human, if not always "pretty." But your video made me get back to thinking about where I am right now. I am sort of on hold, for several reasons that I am sorting out. And one of them is deciding what's next for my photography journey. I've won 3 awards for my photograph and have a few "fans," including among several photographers. However, my work that garners the most attention so far, my urban abstracts, are very abstract, stylized, modernistically (not a word, I know) detached yet alluring. They are almost, at times, Escher-like, sometimes like if Op Art and German Expressionism had a baby. They don't fit the current trend of storytelling, of reflexivity, of exploring the human condition or being deep and introspective. (BTW< I can do that with my portraiture & street/event photography. but they are not the ones that grab people's attentions as much, or so far, have not won awards...) THe whole depth of feeling thing drives my work, even the glossy urban abstracts, but I am trying to figure out how to promote them. And wondering what is wrong with just a set of gorgeous photos that celebrate architectural beauty and present it in a new, de-structured way. Yes, I am a bit at a loss, but as you mention in your video, this is not a bad thing, but a learning experience. A learning journey. BTW, your video made me think of Pema Chödrön's commencement speech, "Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better." The title is based on the line, "Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” from a Samuel Becket story. Deep stuff, indeed. Anyway,. As always. Thank you.
@@TatianaHopper Went through most of his YT channel yesterday. Bought some books on eBay. Thrilled to have “found” him. Again, appreciate you showing us this work.
Hi, wondered what happened to you. Good to see that you're back. Interesting video documentary you've done here on Alec Soth. I never heard of him, but his work looks good. His philosophy on creating photography from mistakes or failures. Perhaps creating work from tragedy or disaster (the coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown, George Floyd, the wildfires) can be consider inspiration for future for photographic work. I notice Soth's work is reminiscent of William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson. Personally, I don't care repetition, but that's just me. Keep up the great work.
Wonderful video, a fresh sight over photography. On this times were so many are enchanted with AI, it's a relief hearing about and seing photos made with heart, effort and feeling... Thank you!!!!
Video is very interesting, and inspiring. I think the concept of intuition, awareness of your intuition, and allowing it to have a priority in guiding your work, is a very important idea for photographers. You did a wonderful job of "bringing in" Alec Soth more as a collaborator in the ideas and concepts of the video, rather than focusing on him and his work. With that said, I am an enthusiastic follower of Soth as a person, a scholar of photography and his work, mostly from watching his YT channel. Therefore I would be in favor of you doing a video(s) on his work, maybe picking one of his books and show/review it as he does with other photo books. Sorry for the long comment.
Great video Tatiana, although I have heard of his name before I wasn't aware of Soth's work until now, thank you for his introduction. With much more interest now I'll have to look more into his work. 😎❤
Amazing Rich I hope you have a look and enjoy what you see, I think Alec is someone that even if he has a completely different style than yours listening to what he has to teach about photography and his experience can be a great tool for your learning!
Hi Tatiana. Love your channel and appreciate many of your observations in this episode. One thing I would have liked to see here, especially given the title, is more insight into Soth’s process and work. They’re well worth a deeper dive, I think, and I hope you’ll take one soon. Good luck, and keep up the great work!
I love your videos and they make my time working at the computer smoother! I would like to see more videos about non western photographers (I consider also japanese artists as "western" photography). A book about history of photography was in my hand and as always it seems that only above the equator there are photographers, only with some exceptions if you are white or you have studied and worked in the northern Hemisphere!
Noted! Funny enough the next two videos are of non-western photographers. Also if you’re interested check out on the channel (if you haven’t already) the videos I made on Italian street photography, Gregory Pinkhassov they’re slightly different still western but great takes there! Thanks for watching and for the feedback :) Ps - I don’t consider Japanese artists western so the video coming is to me and generally speaking non on western artists.
@1:34 can anyone tell me what the "American documentary tradition" is...genuinely curious. Does it have to do with form or subject matter? Is there a European style? An east-Asian style??
It's perhaps an odd segue, but Stravinsky once said he did not so much compose "The Rite of Spring" as he was the vessel through which it passed. At least for myself, I see the "vertical progress" of being a photographer--of being an artist generally--as making of yourself the vessel though which the experience you have is to be conveyed. This involves, ironically, removing yourself, or those parts of yourself, that are the impediments inhibiting the flow of the experience from the subject through you to the viewer.
Great quotation there and I actually agree, a lot of food for thought there. Funny enough you're quoting Stravinsky and I'm working on a video where I quote Shostakovich, timely philosophies that's what I call it.
Humanity’s ability for accessing intuition will keep what ever Artificial Intelligence or coming General Artificial Intelligence can muster as their name implies, artificial.
I would hope so it’s one of the things that will set us apart even though the other day I watched a video I think it was on a channel called cold fusion and it was about the development of AI and it was slightly scary.
Thank you so much! Appreciate it! Sorry to hear about that. I have tried a few things from them over time mostly filters and cleaning kits now a tripod. Any particular thing you had trouble with?
I bought a bag from the shop in February, I use it as my day-to-day bag for a book, a headphone and my Fuji. The bag had already split open and the response I got from customer service was for me to sew it back myself.
Hey Carlos, could you share with me your email (send me a DM on IG or an email if you don't want to share it here), my email is thwork28@gmail.com, its so I can pass your email to my K&F agent so they can organise something :)
Could Boris Smelov be the next photographer discussed in a video? Because I have the sense that it would be unfair to omit him from the discourse of not only Russian or Soviet photography, but also of world/global photography.
Because I have a schedule of videos I know that he won’t be the next one but I can certainly keep him on my list of course! Thanks for suggesting his work :)
Isn't it a bit misleading to add your "Recorded with Blackmagic Cinema Pocket 6K ... etc" text (including sponsor message!) over beautiful cinematography of Soth shot by Brennan Vance for PBS - that you've only clipped and put in your own video. As far as I can see the only bit you filmed was you talking to camera?
Hi Matt thanks for watching, I usually do the credits in this way in all my videos, it’s not meant to be misleading usually the audience grasps that as I also credit the footage sources in both the video or video description or both also asking the audience to check out the source. It is indeed a beautiful footage and Brennan Vance is most definitely talented. Take care and all the best!
📌What did you think of the video? Shall we have more Alec Soth here on the channel?
Yeah!
Yes indeed 👍
Anything you want. Your presentation is so good.
Yes! He is so insightful…
Yes please
i love hearing him speak. he thinks about everything deeply. an interesting fellow for sure!
Agreed! Thanks for watching!
This was tremendous. Love Soth so much. Loved his presence on TH-cam during the pandemic. It was not only insightful, but fun and very open and unprecious. I love everything you are touching on here. The depth of field/ depth of feeling concept is often a point of discussion for me. As is intuition and vertical progress. I think if there is any struggle for aspiring artists in the creative environment right now it has less to do with the technology and more to do with the relationship to the work in ways you touched on beautifully here. Lovely work as always.
Agreed with your points my friend, I appreciated his videos during the pandemic too I feel like that’s the moment I really got to know his work, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and watching the video! All the best!
Thank you for this video. More Alec Soth is always a good thing!
Thanks Pat! I really appreciate it!
I am so glad that our interests in photographers line up as it means I always enjoy these videos! Thankyou!
Glad you like them! Thank you for watching!
Soth is my favourite photographer. Very inspiring in the sense he embraces the quietness of image making in a world that is shouting.
Very interesting thought! Thanks for the perspective and thanks for watching!
That is so well put. I love your words!
Great video. “Adding something of my own” is the core motive for everything I do. This resonated
Happy it did thanks so much for watching!
Happy to see you doing a lot more contemporary work recently ☺️
Yeah I’m trying to get to different areas and explore more contemporary work or even photographers that were active in the past say 70s or 80s but still work today! Thanks for watching!
I really enjoyed this video because it touched a bit on how photography can express ones loneliness or aloneness. We an see in Soth's work the way he tries to connect with his subjects and the moment, its very grounding. I think sometimes as creatives when we get into a funk or a blue mood or struggle with mental health we feel we cannot create or take a good photo but what I got from this video is we can keep at it and take away something valuable form each photo or photo project, even if we abandon the project for awhile. We have to embrace the imperfections in the photo but also in ourselves and our lives.
The depth and insight in this video are so growth inducing. Thank you
I’m glad you think that Rebecca I definitely want to try my best going in this direction with the videos! Thank you for watching and being a member :)
I connected heavily with the idea of vertical & horizontal progress. I’ve been working on a project for years now and have found myself in some sort of limbo between the two without any vocabulary to describe it. I imagine it will be super helpful towards the work to identify which spectrum I’m leaning closer towards at the time, give it the moment it deserves, and then explore into the other direction.
Happy to see you back with another video 🥰 They are always an inspiration to give my work more attention. Wishing you the best!!
Thank you so much Kevin, I feel you, I’ve been working on something it seems for ages but it’s the case of giving time to time. Really relate to your words, but keep the work going and focusing on your path that’s my word of advice! Wishing you the best too! Take care!
4:07 - I so expected the point of focus to be on the blank canvas. But here it plays a secondary supporting role. That was unexpected for me. ... the key lesson for me personally in this video was not to get so caught up in the technical side of photography - it's about conveying an idea, more importantly. It's quite a freeing message. Thank you.
🙏🏻
I enjoyed this presentation and would definitely like to see more of his work featured in a future video. Soth is another of the photographers that you have featured that I had not seen before. I love these videos and thank you for all of your hard work. ✌️🌹
Thank you so much for watching my friend and for being a member! More Alec Soth in the near future for sure! Thank you for your continuous support! ✨
Excellent video.....good points and topics. It's important to build an archive (and organize it). You will be surprised after you've been shooting for over a half century (like me) what you will discover when you look back at your body of work. You will discover shots that you overlooked at the time and now jump out at you either from an historical point of view but also possibly a new artistic interpretation. You will also have new ways and tools to use on old images. When we were shooting film 50 years ago we could never have dreamed what would be possible with digital tools in the future. Same now, who knows what lies ahead in the future of photography and how it can be applied to the images you are shooting today. ✌
Totally agree, actually that makes a great insight for a video which I might mention and give you the credit at some point whenever it suits the topic I talked about, thanks for sharing that with us Joseph, I often thought of what tools are we going to have in the future that can help with our photography of today - like most film photographers from before didn’t imagine we could ever have photoshop. Anyways thank you for watching!
Depth of feeling. Always.
But then, that is my approach to photography from the very beginning. I am fascinated by and interested in the technical. but for me, my engagement with my subject, with who or what I am photographing, is crucial. It is the seeing and the process that make my heart soar. This was true when I barely knew what I was doing with my used 2nd generation digital camera with its dinky kit lens and is still true today when I know a little more (and keep learning) and mess up (sometimes) with my full frame mirrorless with great lenses. It is about the heart of it all, the emotional connection. Indeed, when I do portraits, I ma humbled by how people are willing to put their representation in my hands, by how they trust me to make a good portrait of them, or, as I sometimes tell them, I will not release it to the wild. But I think they can sense that I want to make them look good, complex, deeply human, if not always "pretty."
But your video made me get back to thinking about where I am right now. I am sort of on hold, for several reasons that I am sorting out. And one of them is deciding what's next for my photography journey. I've won 3 awards for my photograph and have a few "fans," including among several photographers. However, my work that garners the most attention so far, my urban abstracts, are very abstract, stylized, modernistically (not a word, I know) detached yet alluring. They are almost, at times, Escher-like, sometimes like if Op Art and German Expressionism had a baby. They don't fit the current trend of storytelling, of reflexivity, of exploring the human condition or being deep and introspective. (BTW< I can do that with my portraiture & street/event photography. but they are not the ones that grab people's attentions as much, or so far, have not won awards...) THe whole depth of feeling thing drives my work, even the glossy urban abstracts, but I am trying to figure out how to promote them. And wondering what is wrong with just a set of gorgeous photos that celebrate architectural beauty and present it in a new, de-structured way.
Yes, I am a bit at a loss, but as you mention in your video, this is not a bad thing, but a learning experience. A learning journey.
BTW, your video made me think of Pema Chödrön's commencement speech, "Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better." The title is based on the line, "Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” from a Samuel Becket story.
Deep stuff, indeed.
Anyway,.
As always.
Thank you.
Loved this a lot, Tatiana!
Thanks for watching Heiner! 🙌
Your videos are so refreshing and original, keep them coming 😊
Thank you for watching the vids Joe! Best to you!
Diving into Alec’s work ASAP including his YT channel and that Aperture video you referenced. Another outstanding video 🙌
Thank you so much for watching and sharing your thoughts, do dig into it because it's worth it, there's a lot to learn with his work!
@@TatianaHopper Went through most of his YT channel yesterday. Bought some books on eBay. Thrilled to have “found” him. Again, appreciate you showing us this work.
I was waiting so much for an episode based on Alec Soth. Great job!
More to come! Thank you for watching! 🙌
Hi, wondered what happened to you. Good to see that you're back. Interesting video documentary you've done here on Alec Soth. I never heard of him, but his work looks good. His philosophy on creating photography from mistakes or failures. Perhaps creating work from tragedy or disaster (the coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown, George Floyd, the wildfires) can be consider inspiration for future for photographic work. I notice Soth's work is reminiscent of William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson. Personally, I don't care repetition, but that's just me. Keep up the great work.
Awesome video. Please continue this direction with your videos,,, Great work
Thank you! Will do I was hoping this could become a new segment “what I learned with” :)
Very informative, really enjoyed. Keep up the good work.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Wonderful video, a fresh sight over photography. On this times were so many are enchanted with AI, it's a relief hearing about and seing photos made with heart, effort and feeling... Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much, very kind words I appreciate it!
I love when you focus on photography through the lens of psychology and philosophy. Awesome work, really!,
Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you. I love Alec Soth
So do I! Thanks for watching!
I wish we had things like this to photograph here in Europe as well.
I really enjoy your videos, and I appreciate the effort that you put into your research. Great stuff - keep it up.
Thank you so much Roland! I really appreciate it! 🙌
Video is very interesting, and inspiring. I think the concept of intuition, awareness of your intuition, and allowing it to have a priority in guiding your work, is a very important idea for photographers. You did a wonderful job of "bringing in" Alec Soth more as a collaborator in the ideas and concepts of the video, rather than focusing on him and his work. With that said, I am an enthusiastic follower of Soth as a person, a scholar of photography and his work, mostly from watching his YT channel. Therefore I would be in favor of you doing a video(s) on his work, maybe picking one of his books and show/review it as he does with other photo books. Sorry for the long comment.
Hi, Tatiana.
Awesome video, my lady.
I really enjoy looking at it.
Thank you very much,
Antoine.
Thank you so much Antoine! Really appreciate it! Best to you!
Great video Tatiana, although I have heard of his name before I wasn't aware of Soth's work until now, thank you for his introduction. With much more interest now I'll have to look more into his work. 😎❤
Amazing Rich I hope you have a look and enjoy what you see, I think Alec is someone that even if he has a completely different style than yours listening to what he has to teach about photography and his experience can be a great tool for your learning!
liking the background of your speech scene!
Thanks I’m trying to make it zen I suppose ahah
I love his work! 🙌
Thanks for watching!
@@TatianaHopper always 👍🏻
Thank you for the video. 🎉
You’re welcome 😊
@@TatianaHopper For some reasons I need to watch more of your videos in order to keep myself motivated. 😝
@@TatianaHopper You’ve a gift of what you love 💕 to do or maybe just me. LOL
I had never heard of alec, nice work 🙂
Thanks! If you have some time give his TH-cam channel a watch! :)
Thanks for this fine video and all your excellent work. 📷☕️🙂
Thank you so much!
Well done!
Thank you for watching Nino!
ive been watching you for a min and congrats on the growth
Thanks my friend appreciate it ✌🏻
Hi Tatiana. Love your channel and appreciate many of your observations in this episode. One thing I would have liked to see here, especially given the title, is more insight into Soth’s process and work. They’re well worth a deeper dive, I think, and I hope you’ll take one soon. Good luck, and keep up the great work!
Agreed I am planning to make more videos on him! Thanks so much for watching and for the feedback :)
@@TatianaHopper And again, thank you for all your fantastic work!!
I love your videos and they make my time working at the computer smoother! I would like to see more videos about non western photographers (I consider also japanese artists as "western" photography). A book about history of photography was in my hand and as always it seems that only above the equator there are photographers, only with some exceptions if you are white or you have studied and worked in the northern Hemisphere!
Noted! Funny enough the next two videos are of non-western photographers. Also if you’re interested check out on the channel (if you haven’t already) the videos I made on Italian street photography, Gregory Pinkhassov they’re slightly different still western but great takes there! Thanks for watching and for the feedback :)
Ps - I don’t consider Japanese artists western so the video coming is to me and generally speaking non on western artists.
Loved the intro 🥲
Thank you! I think the music was on point for Alec’s images! I didn’t do it I just mixed the two ahah
More of Soth (&Co) please!
Thank you for watching!
KandF makes good stuff, glad they are helping u out
Thank you! I agree, I actually had purchased stuff from them before little stuff like filters and cleaning kits but this tripod is a keeper for me.
Love his work. Find his images to be sobering and introspective. Moments of time captured into a still image.
Agree with you and I see his work in a similar light! Thank you for watching!
@@TatianaHopper You have a great channel. I enjoy your content and the delivery of it.
@1:34 can anyone tell me what the "American documentary tradition" is...genuinely curious. Does it have to do with form or subject matter?
Is there a European style? An east-Asian style??
I just ‘Liked’ it. 😊
Hey Tatiana great video. Did you looked for the portuguese photographer Carlos Relvas? well worth it, it has an amazing story.
Not yet! I was actually looking at making a video on Artur Pastor. I find his images incredible.
It's perhaps an odd segue, but Stravinsky once said he did not so much compose "The Rite of Spring" as he was the vessel through which it passed. At least for myself, I see the "vertical progress" of being a photographer--of being an artist generally--as making of yourself the vessel though which the experience you have is to be conveyed. This involves, ironically, removing yourself, or those parts of yourself, that are the impediments inhibiting the flow of the experience from the subject through you to the viewer.
... and Peace!
Great quotation there and I actually agree, a lot of food for thought there. Funny enough you're quoting Stravinsky and I'm working on a video where I quote Shostakovich, timely philosophies that's what I call it.
@@chrisfowler7669 Peace my friend!
Humanity’s ability for accessing intuition will keep what ever Artificial Intelligence or coming General Artificial Intelligence can muster as their name implies, artificial.
I would hope so it’s one of the things that will set us apart even though the other day I watched a video I think it was on a channel called cold fusion and it was about the development of AI and it was slightly scary.
If I was asked:
“Why You Should Define Your Photographic Identity?”
What’d I say, Tatiana? 😅
Nice shot! What a plump woman, but she doesn't look like a bloated chubby person. Nice shot!😄
Amazing video as always, i love everything that you do. K&F concept is a no no for me, a pit of bad experiences.
Thank you so much! Appreciate it! Sorry to hear about that. I have tried a few things from them over time mostly filters and cleaning kits now a tripod. Any particular thing you had trouble with?
I bought a bag from the shop in February, I use it as my day-to-day bag for a book, a headphone and my Fuji. The bag had already split open and the response I got from customer service was for me to sew it back myself.
@@CarlosCosta-ge9dy Okay I'm actually going to pass that feedback onto K&F. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Carlos, could you share with me your email (send me a DM on IG or an email if you don't want to share it here), my email is thwork28@gmail.com, its so I can pass your email to my K&F agent so they can organise something :)
Could Boris Smelov be the next photographer discussed in a video? Because I have the sense that it would be unfair to omit him from the discourse of not only Russian or Soviet photography, but also of world/global photography.
Because I have a schedule of videos I know that he won’t be the next one but I can certainly keep him on my list of course! Thanks for suggesting his work :)
There is a point, where we all realize that we must kill our darlings, not all of them though...that would also kill Sausade.
Isn't it a bit misleading to add your "Recorded with Blackmagic Cinema Pocket 6K ... etc" text (including sponsor message!) over beautiful cinematography of Soth shot by Brennan Vance for PBS - that you've only clipped and put in your own video. As far as I can see the only bit you filmed was you talking to camera?
Hi Matt thanks for watching, I usually do the credits in this way in all my videos, it’s not meant to be misleading usually the audience grasps that as I also credit the footage sources in both the video or video description or both also asking the audience to check out the source. It is indeed a beautiful footage and Brennan Vance is most definitely talented. Take care and all the best!
Please please please find a different background.
Shall we have more Alec Soth? NO. There is no need to publish more low quality, meaningless, depressing photography.
Thanks for sharing your opinion Mike!