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Kieran Dodds
United Kingdom
Приєднався 19 вер 2013
The creative process through a lens, darkly. I have practiced slow photography over the past two decades- finding meaningful moments overlooked in the cut and thrust of the daily news cycle.
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Kieran Dodds (b. 1980) is a Scottish photographer, writer and speaker known for his research-driven photo stories and portraiture. He has appeared across the world in publications including The New York Times, Nature, Geo France and Der Spiegel and his prints are held by private and public collections including the National Gallery of Scotland.
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kieran dodds.substack.com
Kieran Dodds (b. 1980) is a Scottish photographer, writer and speaker known for his research-driven photo stories and portraiture. He has appeared across the world in publications including The New York Times, Nature, Geo France and Der Spiegel and his prints are held by private and public collections including the National Gallery of Scotland.
What IDEA unites these two countries?
The rise of modern environmentalism shares a common idea with the ancient church forests in Northern Ethiopia. In this short video, I connect the distant countries showing how their landscapes today reveal a deeper common and unseen root.
You can view the interview with Dr Alemayehu Wassie here: ua-cam.com/video/UdsmIkRagMw/v-deo.htmlsi=4M8J9T4EFmpRHScx
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0:00 New Haven Green's Central Role
0:33 Why I Was Here
0:43 The Idea at the Center of US society
1:10 How National Parks Were Different
1:29 Ethiopia Orthodox Choir
1:45 When Africa is Eden
2:11 Books to Help Make Connections
You can view the interview with Dr Alemayehu Wassie here: ua-cam.com/video/UdsmIkRagMw/v-deo.htmlsi=4M8J9T4EFmpRHScx
If you like ideas and how they shape landscapes please like, share or subscribe.
0:00 New Haven Green's Central Role
0:33 Why I Was Here
0:43 The Idea at the Center of US society
1:10 How National Parks Were Different
1:29 Ethiopia Orthodox Choir
1:45 When Africa is Eden
2:11 Books to Help Make Connections
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Why Prints Complete the Art of Photography
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Making a physical print is, for me, the completion of the photographic process. Without something tangible in the physical world, is it even photography? A short walk through of things I have made and the thinking behind prints as the end of the process. Not the end of the story my any means but the completion of the process. www.kierandodds.com/shop/
200,000 in New York?
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People with Ginger, or Red, hair make up about 1% of the global population. In a city like New York that is a microcosm of the wider world that's about 200,000 shining, bright people crowned in gold. They were very difficult to find probably because New Yorkers are so busy with working hard and getting on that they are not interested in a Scottish photographer on a quest to united the states wi...
SEEING THE HEAVENLY CITY
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When Rome fell Augustine spoke of two cities in existence, the City of God and Man. Now we see fragments of that heavenly, pilgrim city on earth- New Jerusalem. This profound idea that is foundational to shaping Western thought and still visible in the remnants of human creativity scattered through space and time.A photographic journey to reveal glimpses of transcendent beauty from the Middle E...
A Neolithic Wonder on the Orkney Islands
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The Ness of Brodgar on the Orkney Islands is a huge Neolithic site starting over 5000 years ago that reframes our understanding of human geography and history. A short interview with site director Nick Card outlining the key facts about the site and its future. I was there to make an aerial image for my personal artistic project Fabricated Land but, as it is in the works, I wanted to share this...
A Prayer to the Algorithm
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Do you want the world to see and hear you? Then you must appease the mysterious Algorithm. He just wants to sell you stuff and sell your browsing data. I wrote this on my Substack but it was inspired by UA-cam constantly suggesting what I need to understand was the ALGORITHM. Read the full article: kierandodds.substack.com/p/a-prayer-to-the-algorithm Now We See book: www.kierandodds.com/shop/no...
On British Airways Flying With Confidence course
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Around one in four people have aviophobia ranging from dislike to total aversion and terror. I fly for work and have experienced anxiety before and during the travel. There are many triggers so I went on a course affiliated to British Airways called Flying with Confidence, to unpick the issues. Here is a description of the course and my experience on it. This is not a sponsored video but undert...
GINGERS OF NEW YORK (and other stories)
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GINGERS OF NEW YORK (and other stories)
SCOTLAND REIMAGINED: WEAVING, DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ABSTRACTION.
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SCOTLAND REIMAGINED: WEAVING, DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ABSTRACTION.
ENGAGE The Audience, Avoid BLOWING UP
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ENGAGE The Audience, Avoid BLOWING UP
Finding GINGERS in DC, Maryland and Virginia
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Finding GINGERS in DC, Maryland and Virginia
Finding GINGERS in the American National Art Collection
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Finding GINGERS in the American National Art Collection
RESTORYING (Connecting Ethiopia and Manchester)
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RESTORYING (Connecting Ethiopia and Manchester)
8hrs in XNA (Alternative Airport Review)
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8hrs in XNA (Alternative Airport Review)
Finding Native American GINGERS in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Finding Native American GINGERS in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
NO MAN'S LAND (Why Gingers of America starts here)
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NO MAN'S LAND (Why Gingers of America starts here)
A SPECIAL MESSAGE for my 20 subscribers
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A SPECIAL MESSAGE for my 20 subscribers
FABRICATED LAND (How ideas create landscapes and new work)
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FABRICATED LAND (How ideas create landscapes and new work)
Why is this CHANNEL 4 audience all GINGER?
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Why is this CHANNEL 4 audience all GINGER?
GINGERS on TIMES RADIO interview with Gloria De Piero and Stig Abell
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GINGERS on TIMES RADIO interview with Gloria De Piero and Stig Abell
Thanks so much. I am terrified of flying.
Be encouraged, it can be overcome. Thanks for watching!
A print is a physical captured moment in time or you could say it’s documented the moment in time!
Yes exactly. A slice in time of time.
I had no idea that partial powering down is deliberate for noise pollution reasons. Don't get particularly scared on flights but always found that part uncomfortable. Now I won't! Great video, thanks for sharing your experience
It changed the way I fly. Every take off now I am like “here we go”, engines do the noise and now I smile. Knowledge is power
It's not normal for Humans to ride airplanes. We didn't evolve to do that, and it's outside our natural experience. Our brain interprets what's going on as dangerous (and of course it is to some extent). Our nervous system is pumping electrical and chemical signals to try to get us to mitigate or avoid the danger. It's all natural. While I'm not scared of flying (though I was very nervous the first time, and still am during bad turbulence), I think it's more understandable to be scared of it than to not be. This course seems terrific, I'd have loved it back in the 90s before my first flight.
Thank you for this response. I think that is correct about our brains wired to protect us. With any fear or stress the question is whether it is rational or acceptable. In our cars we don’t enter a perpetual state of panic despite the inherent (and actually greater) risks. Drivers are less well trained and regulated, our cars not maintained as well. The challenge for our physiological response is trying to line up that perception of flying with modern reality. Especially that bit I mention after take off when the angle of ascent decreases (but remains upward) and we feel like we are falling. For me, it’s an ongoing process for myself rewiring the impulse to flee.
Im a soft southerner from near bournemouth, but my gran lives there and my grandad is buried on orkney. Its an amzing place for sure, absolutely love it there.
It’s a wonderful place to go and have an excuse to return there. Is your gran on the mainland or another island?
Thank you for sharing this. My ex has a huge fear of flying so I plan on showing her this video. Is they offer this course in Canada, I think it might help her.
Thank you for watching. I dont think BA do Canada but others might. The book or online course will also be a great help but depending on level of fear going on plane with experts is a game changer.
"A photograph is a slice of time " what a beautiful expression and it's very true as well. As for me a photograph is reality rescued from flux and endless procession of time. The print completes the rescue. Kieran you are such an inspiring photographer, keep doing this amazing job.
Thank you for sharing this. I love that, rescued from the flux. I wrote a substack essay in summer about how photography liberates a moment for all time, here: kierandodds.substack.com/p/a-universe-made-of-stories
Thanks Kieran. That is amazing.
Thanks for watching, it is a truly remarkable place.
The circle of photography - Looking forward to receiving the prints, thank you Kieran.
Thanks mate, really encouraging seeing your name pop up in the orders. Hope to dispatch tomorrow or Wednesday:)
@@Kieran_Dodds cool and no rush, if I had time I’d of stopped on my way past Saturday 😁👍 couldn’t agree more with the final process of printing, I say final, maybe the final final is when someone wants to buy said print.
@MaliDaviesPhotography yes that is true the work is best shared and even better if prints are collected. The photographic process succeeds, for me, by how it does at that point regardless of its life after, in print as a card, edition or in press. There is more to say on this! Sorry not to see you in passing! If you get marooned in Edinburgh let me know:)
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This Is Breathtaking. Question; We’re The Rubber Tires Also Discovered In The Site? We’re They Carbon Dated? 🥸
Yes authentic neolithic tyres.😂
I'm laughing here because I just left you a comment on your Ness of Brodgar video and made sure to add an emoji for the sake of the almighty Algorithm's appeasement before going on to look at what you'd posted more recently... :) Here's another for you to go along with my subscription: 🙏
😂 may the Algo be kind to you in your quest for content! Appreciate the sub. I was at the Ness this week so that and more photo randomness to come.
Lovely little video postcard from the closing site, thanks for creating it. (And, for the algorithm: ⌛)
It’s a shame that despite mentioning the website twice the address wasn’t given to us
All links were in the video description. Thanks for watching and sharing!
He said it wasn't domestic. So what were the buildings used for?
They were gathering places, although exact reason is uncertain. There were domestic sites nearby but these are altogether bigger.
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I wonder what the sea level was back then.
Someone else asked that and I will have a better answer next week!
Please do share with any Ginger pals, to tell them you love them.
Awesome!
They are beautiful people. Just another few hundred thousands to track down.
There's still one or two decent people in the world 🦊💜 Cheers
Like you! Thanks for watching and saying
This was built around the same time as Newgrange in Ireland and, from artifacts found, the peoples were in contact with each other.
Yes and the altar stone of Stonehenge was from this geological area. People liked to travel, even then.
Brilliant
Thanks for watching, Gregor!
I don't think planting as dense as this in straight lines is rewilding. The Dumyat planting is a carbon credit site - basically a crop. Who knows what the future will bring, this will depend on how the site is managed long-term, and that will depend on who owns the site after the carbon credit bubble has burst. I hate to be so negative but I can see the straight lines from my house and in no way does this look or feel like rewilding in any way.
I admit that’s exactly my feeling on seeing this dotted grid. Humans like lines, nature is more squiggles. I would love to film a discussion by the parties involved on the aesthetics and plan. I assume the nature mortality and growth rates will mean it will thin out and become wild after the initial structure is put in place. Rewilding on industrial scales seems a contradiction on the surface of it. Thanks for watching and sharing.
will this site be able to be seen in the future? wonderful captured piece of history. I came to to this via Hamish Auskerry and his family.
Hi Paul, good to hear from you. The idea is it will remain safely covered for the future. 20 years of digs and they have enough material to fill a few museums. But then who knows? Great to hear how you found the video too, great name, story and island. Thank you.
Has there been any signs that the archeology extends offshore, or has anybody searched out there?
Good question. Not as far as I am aware. The site is so layered and sea levels have varied so much then perhaps. The lower levels of the site are not far off the current sea level. I will ask for a more informed answer!
So why they dont use trees for cattle ? There are many trees that cattle love to eat more than grass. - Mulberry, Napier grass, Leucaena just to name a few.
The cattle do love trees which is part of the problem! Planting more trees is a good idea but unless there is demarcation they will eat everything else. The land around is used for crops so the cattle exist between the two. So the best stop gap is to protect the church forest entirely.
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Really nice end product from a seemingly quite meditative process.
Thank you for saying and watching. It can be very meditative, in many ways it is in response totally to the fragmented attention of online life.
All images were made in camera. UA-cam thought this was altered content but they are as shot with adjustment only for toning. All images (c)Kieran Dodds.
An absolutely stunning and incredibly beautiful site...with jaw dropping archaeological knowledge of the past 1,000s of years and more just under the feet still uncovered...thank you so much for this video😃😃🌠
Thank you for watching and sharing your enthusiasm for the past. I do wonder what is out there to discover. This site is an incredible place.
It never fails to amaze me how, in our ignorance about places like this, we assume that our ancestors were even more ignorant than we are, as well as being stupid. I think it's entirely probable that they knew vastly more than we do about how to live on this earth, and instead of representing an advance in our species, the present day is, in reality, part of a long decline.
This is a fair point. I think that often. Especially in relation to the dark ages which were quite bright in many ways. To paraphrase CS Lewis we don’t look back on the past we look down on it. Chronological snobbery.
Apart from medical. Examination of still exstant human remains from early civilisations showed how riddled with parasites and disease they were. The short lifespans for most ended miserably.
Scotland is full of amazing beaches like this. Bring a thick wetsuit or be brave.
Thank you for sharing this with us! I've lost all my pics from my trip there in 2008. The one I regret losing most was of the Fiddler and the Dancing Giants. Such an enchanted place! Cheers!
There’s a lot of signs of dressed stonework. It may be neolithic in age, but by the sounds of things, it looks like they had iron. I think we miscalculate Iron Age.
Truly astonishing find(s) in a drop-dead gorgeous landscape with that mesmerizing juxtaposition of dark, foreboding hills shrouded in cloud, sunlit glade and cottage by the strand and that dazzling sea mirroring most of it. I feel blessed to see it again 😊
It is a special place that stays with you. Were you visiting or working in the trenches?
"Uncovered a stone..... the rest is history." Indeed it is. All of it.
Ha. Exactly. The past animating the present.
The question that always springs to mind is - why the Orkneys? Saying "it's an impressive place" doesn’t cut it for me.
I think what Nick says at the start of it being a microcosm of the world, land wrapped in sea and land is an important point. There is the practical aspects of defence and a safe harbour but the aesthetic qualities of light and sky are very significant. Especially when you think how tied the other monuments are to light, stars and universal cycles. The 360 vista is dominated by the vast heavens above.
Why not, why anywhere...
In the same way there is clear choice of materials for tools that are aesthetic as well as functional, so the location has practical benefits for defence, farming and travel but it is hard not to experience a sense of awe. Humans are worshipful creatures, so that is a significant factor
I was looking more at the practical side. It's not all that easy to live in Orkney compared to other areas. You have to be really good at handling what I will assume to be primitive boats. You've come a long way too to get there. The weather can be fierce and is not as nice as places further south. Were these people driven there? What were the advantages that made them stay?
@@jeremywilliams5107 yes certainly a tough life but depends on the where they came from. The islands are milder than the arctic where people colonised early on, warmer than the ice age or even more southerly latitudes with continental climates due to the gulf stream. There are fewer diseases in cooler places too, like malaria, so that is an advantage. I sound like Neolithic real estate agent!
After reading books, and viewing Videos on this subject, it seems obvious to me that the builders of these and other structures world wide were skilled. My theory is that some of these examples could have been built by stellar visitors who were perhaps marooned on Earth and were waiting for rescue for an extended time.
Thank you for taking the time to write. Humans are incredibly smart and geologically 5000 years isn’t that long. I suppose it shows we haven’t actually advanced very far.
"stellar visitors" We go into space. The intelligence to do so did not pop into existence just recently. Humans had been working stone for millennia before this site was built.
I think I follow, the steller visitors traveled dozens of light years only to crash and leave a crew of stone masons on Orkney.
😂
Exactly. No need for stellar visitors. They were probably just visiting from Aberdeenshire.
Brilliant as ever!
Thanks Liz! Much appreciated especially as algorithm doesn’t seem to like it 😂
Mate, I am afraid too to the point I told my wife I rather take car and drive it myself while seeing the world instead of flying... I have been flying since I was 3 months old yet is scare u as it gets...
It’s a serious fear to overcome but it can be overcome. People on the course were terrified before they arrived but through instruction and information they were able to progress to get on a plane. The question is: is the alternative acceptable? Is it worth driving across the world because you are afraid? Roads are, statistically speaking, more dangerous but I totally get that that in itself does not remove fear. Planes just seem more insane, until we understand the physics and our own psychology. Let me know if you take a step forward, in your own time of course.
Well done Kieran! Enjoy your new flying freedom!
Thank you! The world awaits. Currently enjoying Orkney and Highland explorations without planes.
Well done! And chapeau to BA for running the course.
The thing is the gov't nowadays are thinning the churches forest even more mainly in the capital city taking their lands in the name of citys corridor development. Due to the almost Genocidal war between the gov't and the amhara people, the northern highland churches(consist majority of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo church) are being fired with forests. This needs to be told to the world. Thankyou for sharing this for the whole world🙏🙏🙏, his name on the description needs to be corrected, it's Wassei not waste! Thankyou!
Thank you yes that must have autocorrected. It was correct lower down and in the actual subtitles. The political situation seems so hard to comprehend. The conservation work continues despite this, growing a forest to benefit society in good times and bad. Thank you again for writing.
Beautiful! Why don’t I see the car???
I am not sure. It is there, upside down.
@@Kieran_Dodds Hmmm thank you. I enjoy your work.
Thanks for following along. The car is bottom left. The underside with the wee wheels.
This is an amazing way to make art! Thoroughly impressed and subscribed!
Thank you, always happy to have enthusiasts along for the journey!
This is awesome!!!! ❤
Thank you!
You have a great quote in there: "We're made of stories - if you cut open any cell in our bodies, there's a huge single sentence story wrapped up, coiled around chemicals and DNA". Enjoyed this walk around Edinburgh: superb backdrop.
That line was from a talk I was writing but it popped out in my ramble. Edinburgh is ideal for backdrops.
Photography is indeed timeless 🤍