Taking Portraits of Strangers (feat. Gabrielle Motola)
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In this video I sit down with Gabrielle Motola to hear how she goes about approaching strangers to take their portraits. This was all captured during her summer 2019 roadtrip around Scotland to create images with local people and collect their stories.
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Sean, the ‘like’ button is so very inadequate.
That's why they added the 'Join' button.
Kid: Can I be in your video
Ummm, you're already in it😄😄
That last scene with the kids was precious ❤️
Absolutely! I was drawn into the photo with the kids coming back up the stairs and to see the shot with them lined up - so natural - almost feel their emotions.
The ending gave me such a big smile, it's silly :D
agreed, fantastic.
Yes the ending was so beautiful. The music the videography. Watching this kind of human interaction keeps me excited about street photography.
If they got to watch this film, they surely learned one thing or another which you normally don't come in contact with until years later. Very valuable.
There has been nothing more profound in my improvement in mental health than taking candid photos of people I see. I talk with them and take their portrait and am proving to myself this world is amazing and I am a part of that 🥺
Sean this may be the video that has touched me the deepest. Wonderful story. Wonderful portraits. Beautifully filmed. The end with the kids... teared up.
I think so too.
Ya, I teared up too!
I feel the exact same way
Me too - an unexpected, emotional scene. What a superb video
indeed & soaked in positive energy.
“Each frame is a brushstroke bringing me closer to the final picture.” Wow.
The difference between people who "want to do" and those who "do do" is not confidence or lack of fear, it's simply the willingness to acknowledge your fear and do it anyway. Such a great insight for us who "want to do".
As others have said, your videos are so beautifully produced in ways that enhance the underlying story.
When I was afraid of driving in traffic, this is what my instructor told me. I never heard of that before and it instantly made impact on me. Now I can effortlessly drive in our Indian city roads where it can get bit hectic most of the times
Beautifully made video Sean, Gabrielle is so interesting and an amazing photographer, loved how you put the subtitles for the Scottish accent 😆and the lads at the end were so great.
The Scottish accent is a little more like how people speak in Western Norway.
It was more because they weren’t mic-ed:)
Sean Tucker ahhh yes I see, although my granda was from Scotland and I wish he came with subtitles, same with my other granda who was Cumbrian, like listening to another language sometimes. Love strong accents.
Could listen (to learn) from Gabrielle all day!
Yep, you said you were looking forward to putting this one together and I can see why. A lot of Gabrielle's words resonated with me and other parts were thought-provoking as someone who spends a lot of time disconnected from people but connected with the world in a different way. I loved the bit at the end - the pure innocence and joy of youth :-) Great work, matey.
Thanks mate:)
I also felt that way. Photographing strangers or the moment of asking people to take a photo of them, is really something which forms you as a photographer. And in most cases, it's something that both sides can enjoy by sharing stories, which are beyond the picture. And this last seen with the boys is just plain beautiful, "breaking" the wall of Sean's invisibility troughout the video :D
For me the most essential thing is connecting with the ”subject”, one way or the other... and people are very different. Its all about how you approach.
I met Gabrielle about 2 hours ago whilst out with my dog Stella, what an amazing thought provoking lady, I really hope I meet her again, my mind is now buzzing with emotion, Thank you so much for asking to take our portraits Gabrielle
This is one of the best videos I have ever watched about photography, totally inspirational. Gabrielle talks about the same social anxieties I have and how she overcomes them. Makes me want to go out and photograph humans and break that anxiety I have about approaching people. I am an introvert and I find this type of photography really challenging yet it is my favourite type of photography. Thank you Sean for creating this, sharing it with the world and I hope you keep doing more of these.
Agreed that is very challenging. Many times I see an interesting person and a nice frame, but i don't have the courage to ask for a shot.
That was incredbile. Those 25 minutes flew by in no time
25 minutes ... ? wait .... it was what ...
I'm speechless. Tears rolling down my cheek. Gabrielle is the real deal. Thank you, Sean, for getting out of her way, letting her be, so we could be the beneficiaries of her insight and wisdom. Priceless.
Your videos are sheer masterpieces! And the ending was beautiful!
I love all about this movie. Everything.
This is a brilliant, useful, meaningful and very moving video. Thank you.
A photographic education in narrative format. Truly enjoyable video.
The most inspiring, charming portrait of this most fascinating woman. I started to follow her on Instagram as a result of hearing her describe her personal life's journey. Thank you, Sean, for introducing her.
that ending with the boys taking a dive was sensational, the music just brings out the emotions
In times of the internet which is fastest place on the world, your chanell force people to sit, calm down for 10-20min and listen.
Thanks for sharing Gabrielle with all of us, Sean.
Talking to strangers? I was taken aback. 23:00 the highlight of the video making everyone smile. Sean, your videos always come with great tunes matching with the contents. ...and realised I watch this segment again and again. Gabrielle's photos are great, but the segment of the kids you took is also great... I keep updating my comment... the last segment is so touching... with the music. The kids and Sean... Sean mumbling... (I can't believe there are people put thumbs down on this one).
Thanks so much my friend:) Glad you enjoyed it
Gosh... I discovered your channel close to a year ago. I have always liked to think that in all your school years you will always remember those teachers that have made magic in you, that have touched a special interest you had and made it bigger and more important. They made you feel a click onto those. They have inspired you to be better, to enjoy your passions in a different level. In my whole life I can count those with one hand, I wish they were more, but it is, what it is. Now you have joined that precious list! You work is not only evocative, precise, beautifully filmed and inspiring, it touched my soul and I am pretty sure it has touched a lot of souls as well. I cannot thank you more for sharing this kind of content and media, it's just plain marvelous... Thank you, thank you! You make me want to be better and live more!
That means a lot. Thanks my friend.
Sean/Gabrielle that was such a brilliant, warm and inspiring documentary; thank you.
I cried. Every photographer needs to see this.
Wonderfully produced and great story telling. A real anti-dote to all the GAS on TH-cam. Well done Sean, and I continue to admire your work. Do keep it up.
Another brilliant video! I think it's not right to call these .. just videos but more of insights or thoughts or something more. It gives a person something to think about. I started photographing people on the streets in my area when I began photographing. But over the period I gave that up and got busy shooting food & weddings. Portraits have always been therapeutic! This video is nails what it's like to go out there and take photos of random strangers. Gabrielle is a gem of a person. Such a simple, nice way to talking to people and getting photographs. The last part where the kids surround you and start jumping and just being happy made me smile. It felt genuine. Thanks for sharing this and the photos in the end. Cheers mate. I'm go through my old hdd's to search and take out portraits I did and soon get back on the road photographing people.
Sean, please do me a favor: imagine a 35 years old guy standing up from his living room couch and giving you a big, heartwarming round of applause. Yes, I'm doing it! Thank you for sharing this things with us. You deserve all the best!
That's lovely. Thanks mate:)
Pushed myself to do this after seeing some videos from Jamie Windsor and Pablo Strong to improve my confidence and portraits and now I'm a professional portrait photographer, it's not easy to do but those days wandering around Dublin with my 5d and 50mm were some of the happiest memories I've ever had taking photos. From all the work I've done, the only award I've ever won was from one of those portraits and that proved to me that this was such an important thing to do.
I adore this. I did not to expect to wind up in tears at the end. Beautiful. Thank you.
This Soundtrack just pushed it! :D
awesome fitting after the deep and quite introduction of the scene...
same
Once again you set the bar so high for content, perspective and narrative. Can't get enough.
Thanks so much. Appreciate that
Photography is one of the most fascinating ways to meditate/be in the "now".
Yet again you've given us another portrait full of empathy and love. The work you do behind the camera is every bit as insightful as the work your subject captures. In fact, I think this is your unique strength. You are fascinated by, and respect, the creative process and you have the skills and intuition to reveal them to a wider audience. Your humanity leaks through. Bravo.
Thanks Jeremy:)
Words are inadequate to describe my emotional response to this video. This is truly beautiful on every level. Thank you!
A very inspiring video. Gabrielle is very natural approaching people and her photos are simply amazing, they capture the emotions of that moment very accurately!
What a masterfull short documentary. I loved this. Gabrielle is so wise and insightfull. Very well done!
So many points that she touched on that really hit me. Don't just shoot have a conversation, and the world is not evil like we are so often told people in general are kind hearted. Makes me want to leave the solitude of the landscape and try a new adventure.
great video as usual. my kind of interview, nothing rushed just her thoughts, and the way she interacts with people is brilliant.
I've just saw this video and that really touched me. The final part with the shots, the music... so nice. Congrats.
I really enjoy watching this video. It's genuine and honest. The ending parts with the boys jumping to the lake is really breaking-free.
By the way, love the color platte! Thank you for producing such a great content!
A View to the World the kids were jumping into the North Sea. Very hardy these boys.
Arthur Hughes Ah, I see. Thank you.
I wasn't going to watch this episode because I didn't think the subject matter was really for me. However, I just watched it and how inspiring is Gabrielle and her work. Excellent story and well told. The outcome for me - there are lessons to be learned, as well as inspiration to be found, in so many places that you might not expect.
Amazing documentary. You had me glued to my seat and entertained immensely. Picking up my camera today to go shoot. Thanks for this inspiration.
Absolutely fascinating. Talking to people in a friendly way, encouraging them to interact with you is a skill that not many people have. An ability to be outgoing doesn't make you an extrovert.
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Another inspiring piece Sean. Really appreciate your hard work!
What an incredible video. The pure, unadulterated humanity in this video is remarkable. Fantastic interview and pictures as well.
A subject of increasing interest to me, so this couldn't have come at a better time. Excellent Sean 🙂
This is an amazing and heartwarming video and Gabrielle is a talented photographer and a great person.
Absolutely loved this! Gabrielle's view on photography is something I need to take closer to heart and that ending scene with the boys has made me laugh. Really nicely done! 😊👌🏻
Cheers buddy:)
These documentaries are so good. Brilliantly edited and put together..
I felt every word she said! Thank you Sean for making this video. :)
I just cried my eyes out. I had a similar experience with kids on the street and I'm bedridden with chronic and mental illness. That last jump in the end was symbolic of jumping into the unknown when you have depression or just living life. Thank you Sean, your videos are beautiful. Love the music.
I could never have imagined that a "photography tutorial" video could make me feel so much and move me the way this video did. This might be my present bias speaking, but I think this is one of the finest videos I have watched on TH-cam ever.
Dude these videos are like Netflix quality s#it! Almost spiritual.
The young blokes at the end - good on em! Gabrielle is an inspirational human being! Sean - thanks for sharing the stories of inspirational people.
such an amazing video! she's lovely and i feel like i learned lots from her. your channel might just be the best photography one out there sean! thanks for sharing
My gosh this maybe my favourite video on TH-cam, and I have many favourites. I’m personally struggling between my travel videos in China, which are ok.... I guess and my street photography which is better on Instagram. But what Gabrielle and what you have done this video are somewhere in the middle, albeit on such a high level. Truly an inspirational video, and not just food for thought in terms of how we approach our work, but food for the rest of our journey.
Really enjoyed meeting you down at the sea front in North Berwick!👍
Great to meet you guys too! Thanks for giving us such an awesome ending!
I wanted this video to never end . . . just brilliant !
I just read something online the other day, in which we Americans were criticized for being "too friendly" and "too pushy"; talking to strangers too readily when we travel, especially in the UK and Europe. Ms. Motola single-handedly gives the lie to that with her authenticity, openness, honesty, and most of all her humility in the act of connecting to other people and participating, however briefly, in their lives. Thank you, Sean, for sharing this, and thank you Gabrielle Motola, for who you are, and for what you do.
this video is a personal north star for me. its so well done Sean. The end of this video encompasses so much, so dynamic. Thanks for making this.
Great video, great subject , and the last minute or so with the lads diving was superb, what great images came from that. 10/10
All your videos are compelling and valuable. This one is especially so.
This REALLY connected with me. More than 10 years ago I did a project in Poland ("My Poland", I'm Dutch myself) where I approached people on the street and asked them if it was okay to take their portrait. I did this in Polish which I was struggling to learn in those days. The reactions I got were absolutely amazing. Struggling with depression and social anxiety myself, that project worked better than most medication I've been on. Thank you for making this beautiful and sensitive documentary. I absolutely love it and has me thinking of picking it all up again.
Not sure why I am tearing up but I am. You are a genius Sean. Thank you for this.
Very inspiring! One of the best videos about photography I’ve seen in the last months. Congratulation to Gabrielle for the great pictures and you Sean for the video!
Superbe video Sean. I think you've just inspired me to shoot portraits of strangers. Keep up the great work.
That was the best time I’ve spent on TH-cam in a very long time. Thanks man. 🤙
Your videos are always a joy to watch! Extremely well produced and with no silly filler.
Why is that almost all of your video make me cry?! Joy, excitement, revelation, perspective and more, just a scramble of emotions. Thank you for that.
What a brilliant portrait of a wonderful person and photographer. I wanted to say „yes, yes‘ all the time. Very empowering Sean.
I am still behind as a new subscriber watching your vlogs and this one was truly inspirational. Even at 67, I am even now constantly breaking out and experimenting with different styles of photography. I have really enjoyed and have been motivated from watching your vlogs Sean. Keep 'em coming.
Amazing watching Gabrielle work and talk to us. She is so present and radiates the joy of being in the world making photos. ... And then, the people who are the "subjects" break through the wall around Sean and draw us in to their world [23:10 or so]. This is what it is to be human. ... Thank you.
I went on your website to dig deeper into your work and came across this video. Didn't expect to cry for an entire minute after watching it. Such soul food! Those lads .....
This is amazing Sean. Thank you for providing this incredible inspiration
This is the perfect video. I recently got into film photography shooting my friends and strangers outside and it's such a great experience starting conversations with others and being human for once by capturing the emotions in that moment instead of worrying about technicalities of the shot.
One of the most beautiful and inspiring videos I have ever watched here on youtube. Thank you so much for this Sean, this has inspired me to move out of my comfort zone and start taking portraits again.
I absolutely did not want this video to end. I got so much from it. Excellent stuff here, Mr. Tucker, just excellent. And to Gabrielle, thank you. So inspiring you are.
Love the way she talks about her experience on a motorcycle. Really well put. Felt the same way when I had my bike. You experience things so differently. You're not cut off. Miss it.
Gabrielle is so inspiring. talks to the people easily like to friends or family and take images without be distracted from camera, technique, settings etc... love it
You don't understand how much I need this right now. This is exactly the struggle I'm grappling with at the moment. Thanks as always
What a great video Sean. I’m a Scot living in Hong Kong and when those lads said “Can you get us jumping in? Right we’re doing it” my heart leapt. As usual you really portrayed the essence of your subject.
Thanks Sean for this brilliant interview. Gabrielle Motola is an inspiring and wonderful human person. Your work should be on television.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!
Awesome Sean and Gabrielle, I really enjoyed this... gave me goose bumps. Thank you 🙏
Sean, I just gotta say that your videos are the SH#T! The music, the story, look is incredibly well done. Thank you for the inspiration and the consistently amazing content.
Great vid as always buddy. Best image was the group shot of the kids.. a great shot and a treasure for each of them to have.... time will change everything but that image will always be.
I have been riding motorcycles for over 30 years and I have never before heard a better description of what riding feels like. Normally we just say ‘if you have to ask you wouldn’t understand’.
Sean and Gabrielle, you saved my day with your video, especially with the last 2 minutes ! Thank's a lot and keep on!
"....for the most part the world is a much kinder place than we're told it is"
And me dropping my phone to give a double thumbs up
"I think for the most part the world is a much kinder place than we're told it is" - I love that.
What a warm, informative and inspiring story, she's got a great outlook on life. When I think about it, I was always more successful when I was daring. I've gotta get back out there and go after what makes me smile, thanks for the story Sean
Wow, beautiful video, incredible talent you guys have... made me cry at the end... in a good way.
Sean, that was awesome. This is such a compelling video. As rootytuners says, the like button is inadequate. Gabrielle is a revelation.
One of my Favorite videos On TH-cam of the year. Thank you for that. 🙏🏼😊
Thanks, Sean. Informative, insightful and just fun to watch. So... do *you* feel you can photograph strangers more easily?
I’ve literally got chills after watching this video. Just monumental. Thank you Sean and Gabrielle ❤️
That's what Photography is all about, well made video, i didn't want it to end!
I cried at the end. ❤️
It's nice that the gear stuff only showed in the end, because portrait of strangers is not about the gear, but all the contact she talked about.
Great video man...
Best video I've seen on TH-cam in a while
Really good video. Great subject matter, really well shot and put together.