100% true. You don't see it for yourself - unless you print it out. A PC screen means nothing - its nothing haptic, to see, with your own, naked eyes. I've printed some 20-30 pictures on canvas, or alu dibond from 30x20 to 120x80cm sizes during the past >2 decades for friends & family, and they like it.
Can't believe my favorite photographer was featured on my favorite channel! Such an inspiration. No matter how many times I reread his book, I always find something new to learn and to keep me motivated. This interview was amazing!
This came out so nicely Willem, such a lovely piece! I’m so happy Todd was open to having you and Jimmy over to chat and shoot this, big thank you to him for sharing his perspectives and to you for the work to share this with us🥹✨
That's fantastic, Willem! He's such an inspiration. This reminds me of one of your earliest videos on this channel I saw, in which you talked about Hido's work being an inspiration for your own photos. It also struck me how there is not a "sharp" picture shown in this whole thing, yet today's Internet is obsessed with gear reviews about how insanely sharp some latest and greatest lens is! It is so cool that you got to make this video.
“The meaning of the image resides in the viewer. Ambiguity is an amazing tool for art. You can’t control what people think. Why even try? It’s not my job to create meaning, but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.” This! 👌
As someone who is studying photography I feel like we don't talk about contemporary photographers enough so thank you for sharing his work, it's so beautiful!
15:35 "The power of photography [is] to tell the truth, but equally to lie - I think that's what makes it such an interesting medium". This was articulated so accurately !
I resonate with these explanations a lot. Photographing with different cameras, working through your own interests and past, creating with the intention of something being from the past, letting the work sit for a long time, book collecting.
Great interview, great insight to his work. And very important words : print your pictures. Give them physicality. Let them have the opportunity to be found, rediscovered, weeks, months, years later! I've lost thousands of photographs in the void of old hard drives, flimsy SSDs and stolen or lost phones. The printed ones are still there.
Wow, i really adore Todd's work, and even made some pictures, with his thoughts into mind, means...the loneliness, the ghostly atmosphere. I love this mood. uncertain. mystic. eerie. haunted..at times.
I deeply adore his work, it has such a fantastic unique feel. I would never be able to replicate it but when i first saw his work a couple of years ago i was enamored.
This was ABSOLUTELY fascinating! Most every photographer I've seen is a sunrise to sunset photographer. He's the only dedicated 3rd shift inclement weather photographer I've ever seen! Totally different!
"i would rather have a nicer book, than a nicer shirt", felt that. very beautiful video and just when i thought it could not get any better you finish it off with the soundtrack of tokyo sonata!? wow!
Excellent video Willem - this makes me proud to know of you. Your work is excellent but it speaks volumes when you promote someone else. It shows that your heart is in the photography arts rather than selfishness
This is really well done. I wasn’t at all familiar with his work but having heard him describe his motivations and process I want to get his book. His statement about printing your work is so true. Printing is “seeing your work thru to the end “ more so than posting onto social media that’s for sure.
This is my favourite kind of photography video on TH-cam because it explores a genuine, decades-long evolution of creative inspiration and gives some insight into a masters approach to their art. There’s definitely a place for early-career photographers discussing their profession and inspiration but this sort of interview just hits different. Amazing work, I hope to see much more like this from your channel!
Thank You! This is indeed filled with nuggets of gold. It is a tremendous shot of inspiration for me at this point in my world. I will watch & listen to this many more times!
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS POPPED UP IN MY TH-cam FEED FIRST! I KNEW OF HIS WORK PRIOR... BUT HEARING HIM TALK ABOUT HIS WORK PUT IT ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL!!!!💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
What a great watch and interview It was very interesting to hear Hiddo's thoughts on photography and the vernacular. "Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort" is one of my favourite publications. ".... to photograph on top of the mountain one must climb it , to photograph in the home one must be invited" forever changed my approach to photography .
I think a little nugget that hit me was "I think it's hard to talk about [landscape] pictures because if I was a word person, I wouldn't even need to make them". I feel like this was maybe unintentionally deep lol. This is an aspect that has kept me wanting to photograph through tough times. I feel like there have been a lot of times where something has made me feel a certain way and I want to share that feeling so badly with others but it feels impossible through words alone.
What a brilliant video, a wonderful ramble along Todd's career and work with a treasure trove of nuggets of wisdom interspersed along the way! Thank you.
Great vid! Wish I had seen this before the Leica show. I think I would have appreciated his work more as I hadn't really looked at his direction. Thanks for the better insight.
This really reminds of when I recently went to an Limited Pop Up Gallery of Masahisa Fukase (Famous Japanese Photographer in Tokyo) in Yamashita Park, Shibuya and his apprentice Seto san said Photography that makes Non Fiction moment-> Fiction (as in memory) are the ones that remain forever and maybe thats what we call good photography that lives forever
13:10...I had a 1951 Chevrolet exactly like this one, same color. I dream about this car from time to time and the dreams look like this picture. Creepy..
The person that inspires me is former National Geographic Photographer Jim Brandenburg from northern Minnesota. I do not copy his work but more specifically copy the fact that his captured images are his individual personal style. You do the same. You are inspirational as well.
Todd Hido being on the channel feels like a full circle moment 100%
most important line at 14:58 "Print out your photographs". Made the world of difference for me once I started printing my work
with an enlarger
100% true. You don't see it for yourself - unless you print it out. A PC screen means nothing - its nothing haptic, to see, with your own, naked eyes. I've printed some 20-30 pictures on canvas, or alu dibond from 30x20 to 120x80cm sizes during the past >2 decades for friends & family, and they like it.
Do you print from home? Which paper do you use?
@@alexthornton9236 No, i buy prints. Usually canvas, or on Alu Dibond.
@@alexthornton9236 it was all being answered before - but somehow, being deleted here...not funny.
He dropped a lot of gold. This was beautiful, Willem
Great interview. Favorite quote... “Its not my job to create meaning, but to charge the air so meaning can occur” - Todd Hido
Can't believe my favorite photographer was featured on my favorite channel! Such an inspiration. No matter how many times I reread his book, I always find something new to learn and to keep me motivated. This interview was amazing!
This came out so nicely Willem, such a lovely piece! I’m so happy Todd was open to having you and Jimmy over to chat and shoot this, big thank you to him for sharing his perspectives and to you for the work to share this with us🥹✨
That's fantastic, Willem! He's such an inspiration. This reminds me of one of your earliest videos on this channel I saw, in which you talked about Hido's work being an inspiration for your own photos. It also struck me how there is not a "sharp" picture shown in this whole thing, yet today's Internet is obsessed with gear reviews about how insanely sharp some latest and greatest lens is! It is so cool that you got to make this video.
“The meaning of the image resides in the viewer. Ambiguity is an amazing tool for art.
You can’t control what people think. Why even try? It’s not my job to create meaning, but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.” This! 👌
As someone who is studying photography I feel like we don't talk about contemporary photographers enough so thank you for sharing his work, it's so beautiful!
I hadn‘t even thought about it, but you‘re right!
Right... I have searched and searched... A small Voice and Sasha wolf channel is it
“Sometimes it’s hard to talk about landscape pictures because if I was a “word person”, I wouldn’t even need to make them”
Thank you Todd Hido
I love that “I’d rather have a better book than a nicer shirt”
shirt looks great too!
15:35 "The power of photography [is] to tell the truth, but equally to lie - I think that's what makes it such an interesting medium". This was articulated so accurately !
I remembered his phrase: "When there is no sun, when there is no blue sky. That's why I mostly shoot at night." And thank you for the interview!
This is exactly what we need more of on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing WIllem
I resonate with these explanations a lot. Photographing with different cameras, working through your own interests and past, creating with the intention of something being from the past, letting the work sit for a long time, book collecting.
Great interview, great insight to his work. And very important words : print your pictures. Give them physicality. Let them have the opportunity to be found, rediscovered, weeks, months, years later!
I've lost thousands of photographs in the void of old hard drives, flimsy SSDs and stolen or lost phones. The printed ones are still there.
Wow, i really adore Todd's work, and even made some pictures, with his thoughts into mind, means...the loneliness, the ghostly atmosphere. I love this mood. uncertain. mystic. eerie. haunted..at times.
I deeply adore his work, it has such a fantastic unique feel. I would never be able to replicate it but when i first saw his work a couple of years ago i was enamored.
This was ABSOLUTELY fascinating! Most every photographer I've seen is a sunrise to sunset photographer. He's the only dedicated 3rd shift inclement weather photographer I've ever seen! Totally different!
"i would rather have a nicer book, than a nicer shirt", felt that. very beautiful video and just when i thought it could not get any better you finish it off with the soundtrack of tokyo sonata!? wow!
This was such a beautiful Interview. What a milestone for you meeting him as well! :)
So many pearls of wisdom on this video, I need to rewatch it so I can make notes. Thank you for featuring Todd Hido 💛
Crazy to see. His work was the first photography that I really looked at. Definately got me into the hobby in a serious way
Excellent video Willem - this makes me proud to know of you. Your work is excellent but it speaks volumes when you promote someone else. It shows that your heart is in the photography arts rather than selfishness
Thanks for sharing. Wasn’t familiar with Todd’s work. An amazing artist with a wonderful approach. Very quotable, too! 👍👍
This interview blew my mind. Such inspirational, unconventional imagery. Truly beautiful art. Thank you for doing this interview. Subscribed.
Excellent interview and well put together video. I love that you just let him speak his mind at length. He's a wonderful contemporary photographer.
Thanks, Willem, for introducing me to Todd Hido’s work. Bought the book in a heartbeat - I’m so intrigued by the title as well.
I just watched this. Again. I’ve already watched it twice. It’s difficult to put to words but simply summed up: Infectious.
This is beyond excellent (for me); thank you Willem!
thank you so much for this interview! just discovered todds work a few months ago and was super happy to learn more about his work process!
Thanks so much for this. Fascinating storytelling and impactful images. Love the mysterious and eerie imagery of Todd Hido. Unique.
This is really well done. I wasn’t at all familiar with his work but having heard him describe his motivations and process I want to get his book. His statement about printing your work is so true. Printing is “seeing your work thru to the end “ more so than posting onto social media that’s for sure.
Spent the first 25 years of my life in Kent Ohio, also made my way out west, that was cool to hear
so you talk and show examples (pictures) what an idea? I am inspired ! Great teaching video. Chance Eye And camera in that order.
Wow that was a great interview! I'd never heard Todd speak before. He has so many interesting ideas. Thank you!
Thanks, Willem, for doing this and putting it out into the world. Such a fascinating listen.
Waaawww....He is like the final boss of walls and backyard photography!
This is my favourite kind of photography video on TH-cam because it explores a genuine, decades-long evolution of creative inspiration and gives some insight into a masters approach to their art. There’s definitely a place for early-career photographers discussing their profession and inspiration but this sort of interview just hits different. Amazing work, I hope to see much more like this from your channel!
Thank You! This is indeed filled with nuggets of gold. It is a tremendous shot of inspiration for me at this point in my world. I will watch & listen to this many more times!
This is so special Willem, I could listen to Todd talk forever! Thanks
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS POPPED UP IN MY TH-cam FEED FIRST! I KNEW OF HIS WORK PRIOR... BUT HEARING HIM TALK ABOUT HIS WORK PUT IT ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL!!!!💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
What a great watch and interview It was very interesting to hear Hiddo's thoughts on photography and the vernacular. "Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort" is one of my favourite publications. ".... to photograph on top of the mountain one must climb it , to photograph in the home one must be invited" forever changed my approach to photography .
what a fucking incredibly inspiring interview. thanks Willem and Todd
Love your work and your way of thinking photography. Very inspirational
Fantastic video about the Art and Soul of Photography. Thank you !
I think a little nugget that hit me was "I think it's hard to talk about [landscape] pictures because if I was a word person, I wouldn't even need to make them". I feel like this was maybe unintentionally deep lol. This is an aspect that has kept me wanting to photograph through tough times. I feel like there have been a lot of times where something has made me feel a certain way and I want to share that feeling so badly with others but it feels impossible through words alone.
Man, thanks for this interview! Todd Hido is a phenomenal artist.
Such an insightful and interesting video, this is great. Thank you so much.
Such a helpful interview. I took so much from this. Thank you
for bringing such an incredible photographer to us.
Truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing, Willem! ...and Todd, obviously
Amazing video Willem, thank you for producing such an inspirational interview !
Wonderful perspective and insight. Thank you for sharing.
A true inspirational Master! Thanks for sharing this interview.
What an interview, such an inspiring guy! Thanks for sharing this Willem!
This is fantastic, very well put together
It blew my mind when I realized his work was on a Silversun Pickups cover.
Lol same here.
That’s how I was introduced to his work
What a spectacular insight. Many thanks for sharing.
I like his joy in photography (and also his pictures). 👏👏
Full circle, congrats and thank you Willem !
Congratulations on this interview!
So well put together. Many interesting thoughts. I love Hido's work. Thank you!
Wonderful video. Thank you, Wiilem.
I got introduced to him via Jason Momoas HBO Doc "On The Roam", nice to see his work on here as well now.
What a brilliant video, a wonderful ramble along Todd's career and work with a treasure trove of nuggets of wisdom interspersed along the way! Thank you.
Todd is a huge inspiration to me, and made me laugh as I sit here with my wall of photo books and wearing a shirt from HM…
"I'd rather have a better book than a nicer shirt." I wish I'd realised that a long time ago.
very inspiring...so glad I found this...
Thank you for making this, Willem. Wonderfully made.
This was an amazing video. Very inspiring 👏
One of the best photography related videos I've seen in a long time. Thank you for this. More like this would be awesome
Great vid! Wish I had seen this before the Leica show. I think I would have appreciated his work more as I hadn't really looked at his direction. Thanks for the better insight.
I really appreciate this interview. Thanks for making it.
Thank you so much Willem, I needed that. Amazing work
This interview is amazing, I am pretty sure I will go back to this over and over again over the coming years.
Amazing interview!
Soo many good lines. Lots of wisdom!
What a wonderful and interesting video! Thank you!
Actually amazing. Congrats and thank you for the wonderful interview!
Fantastic video,inspiring.
This really reminds of when I recently went to an Limited Pop Up Gallery of Masahisa Fukase (Famous Japanese Photographer in Tokyo) in Yamashita Park, Shibuya and his apprentice Seto san said
Photography that makes Non Fiction moment-> Fiction (as in memory) are the ones that remain forever and maybe thats what we call good photography that lives forever
"I want to fill my world with things that make me think and want to make things"
wow this made me emotional. so beautiful!
So inspirational!! Great interview Willem
What a lovely man - great insight.
Beautiful. Meaningful. Thoughtful. Love this video so much - awesome work by Todd Hido, and you too Willem.
Amazing! been waiting for this one thank you!
Thank you for this.
Crazy! Congrats man!
Very well done piece of work. Hope to see more of these!
this could've been twice as long and it would've flew by, so many good bits in here
13:10...I had a 1951 Chevrolet exactly like this one, same color. I dream about this car from time to time and the dreams look like this picture. Creepy..
Love Todd Hido’s work! Great video 👏🏾
I was able to see his gallery that’s up at the Leica Store in LA.
Amazing & Greatly Inspiring, Thank you! 💯
FULL CIRCLE 🙌🖤
Two legends ❤️ 🎞️
The person that inspires me is former National Geographic Photographer Jim Brandenburg from northern Minnesota. I do not copy his work but more specifically copy the fact that his captured images are his individual personal style. You do the same. You are inspirational as well.
Great Interview!
Soooo cool Willem congrats!
so beautifully done