How TODD HIDO creates ATMOSPHERE
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How TODD HIDO creates ATMOSPHERE
Todd Hido's photography connects with me on an emotional level. It makes me feel something. It triggers my imagination into inventing the narratives for these situations. With the absence of people, I place myself into the story. And this is why I think Hido’s work connects with so many people: because it invites us to create our own personal narrative.
Places we associate with activity are disconcerting when that activity is absent. While in films and TV shows, the fear is focussed on what we might find hiding around the next corner: the zombies, the monsters, the people whose intentions may not be in our best interest, I think this trope resonates so deeply with people for a slightly different reason. I think it taps into a fundamental fear many of us have of being truly alone.
Ultimately Todd Hido’s work connects with us because we make our own connection with it. The lack of clear, objective narrative in his imagery means we channel our own experience and feelings into it, and that has the potential to make a connection that feels profoundly strong and deep. For me, Hido has found the perfect balance of evoking a feeling that resonates with many people, while leaving the specifics of interpretation for the viewer to create themselves.
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My graduation thesis was basically 50 pages on the Shining, liminal spaces, and the uncanny valley; so I can feel confidant in saying: great fucking video man
I would love to read it. 🙌
Same here ! That sounds extremely interesting ! :D
Can we see it?
send us a link!! would love to read that
Woah man that's pretty rad. Can we read it?
This is the sort of content I have been waiting for. I bloody love these types of videos Jamie. Bloody good stuff ♥️
Agreed. So good
Absolutely!
True ❤️👍
I love it but I don’t know why.
I was gutted when I first saw Hido's work. Someone had already done everything that I realised I was trying to do with my own photography, and far better than I ever could. I can't relate to your sense of disturbance at these liminal spaces, they feel so homely and welcoming to me.
So much is down to our own personal experiences. I kind of love that about his work. It's like I'm not being lectured to, just invited to feel something.
It's a different feeling for everyone I guess. Large empty urban spaces/buildings definitely creep me out.
@@jamiewindsor what do you think about Daido Moriyama? I would love to see a video on his work just like what you did here with Todd. For me, he is one of these photographers that can put tons of emotional content into a single photo (in his case, using very unorthodox techniques).
Took the exact words right out of my mouth. I just got into DSLR's and am even considering film because of him now. But I think we can do it our own way, it can never be the same anyway
I have loved Hido's photography for years and they make me feel cozy and warm too. I guess we can picture ourselves inside and curled up. I live in the North and so during winter these real images are everywhere while I am driving in the country. I also love fog, it makes some feel creepy but it makes me feel like I am in an enchanted world.
I will not see an empty room in the same way, ever again...
It won't look at you the same way either
The feeling of someone being there when you should be alone is the worst feeling
Jamie you opened a door to me that I didn't even know was there. Thanks for the insight into this world of Todd Hido, I will now be more aware and cognizant when I see this style of art and understand why I feel the way I feel observing it.
That’s so cool. Those interiors are so creepy, and you can almost smell the old carpets, and stale cigarette smoke. It’s a very strong feeling of discomfort.
Ahh my favourite - Windsor University
It taps into that F E E L I I N G. When you walk home from your friends house as a kid. At night and you see a neighborhood house with a blue window where the tv is illuminating the window on the top floor. You wonder what it’s like in there but you are in the cold. It’s like anti cozy but it’s also comforting.
This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.
Great video! During our first lockdown in Germany, Playgrounds were closed. I took the chance to get my emotion of uncertainty and darkness and created a small series of abandoned playgrounds. These shots you have featured here do trigger my emotions of this time. Thank you.
I practically did the same, I was especially drawn to the red/white tape. Grüße aus Darmstadt
I hate flattering people, but this time I have to say that your videos are truly masterpieces. I appreciate your work.
To me .... this is about waiting in the theater's lobby (at the stairs to the balcony) to meet a date who hasn't yet/never did come. "Stood-up, broken-hearted again." Projecting? Probably so. This is what we are invited to do with such art.
LOVE the 4:3 format
I'm a 48 year old photographer who feels like a 12 year old boy when I watch your videos. You just make me look things a way I haven`t seen yet. BTW, I regret not being able to show off your videos to my friends as I'm argentinian and they don't speak english this level. Cheers!
Use subtitles and Google Translate?
@@FutureChaosTV not always available. Thank you anyway. 😉
As a species we’re used to people, especially in familiar places. Even the hermit in the cave takes comfort there are people in the outside world. We have an innate fear of being totally alone. Hido’s work brings that fear to our visual senses.
We're moving house at the moment and yesterday I set foot in the old house. Now nearly empty except for the furniture that belongs to the landlord. We have lived there for 2 years and made it our own although it was a rental. Seeing it stripped down kind of makes it uncanny. The staircase is mostly as it was, so when I walked down my brain tricked me into thinking I was in the full furnished house again. But I wasn't, of course. It was like I was stepping back in time, but it was an alternate, emptied out universe. No girlfriend or cat present. I got the same with those shots. Thanks for this video!
Seeing these photos somehow makes me understand photography a lot more
Man said my memories of the time are patchy. Thats the about great childhoods and younger years they are patchy.
Love the video as always.
I'm feeling something els sometimes looking at his pictures : It's like the person behind the window is the last person on earth and I am here watching him, like a stranger, a ghost or maybe some psycho....
A stalker, it's eerie
I got this feeling when photographing Athens in lockdown in March.
Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.
I find it fascinating that you feel uneasy, even terrified when looking at Hidos photos. But when I look at it, I feel sadness and grief.
Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like a have a new breath of insperation into photography again. Thanks again Jamie its always an enjoyment to watch.
I lately finished my thesis at school, where I phographed the empty streets while Lockdown in Zürich. I felt the exact same feeling that you describe while I searched in the empty streets for pictures!!
I feel slightly weird for not mentioning lockdown: the elephant in the room when it comes to this subject. I suppose it will just be an appropriate topic at the moment.
This is the type of stuff youtubers need to put out. More of these in depth videos James. Keep it up
I thought this was just going to scratch the surface just like all the other videos on youtube...but man you went deep! fucking magnificent
Jamie is awesome for going deep in his content. Probably my favourite UA-cam photography content creator. Every episode is a journey
You would be such a great lecturer and professor at a University... you argument so creatively and bring up juicy alternative themes in photography
I had never heard of Todd Hido - thanks for bringing him into my life!
Jamie, your channel is the very definition of great content. A perfect balance between aesthetics and information.
The algorithm failed me as a subscriber to this channel. I’ve been in a liminal space and wondered why? Now, I realize it was because I had not watched one of your videos in a while(Patreon here I come). Glad I came across this. Hido is new to me, but I’m glad you profiled him here. This is the type of photography I love. I call it dark moody realism (simply because I couldn’t find a “proper” name for it). I will definitely check out more of his work. I’m glad you mentioned Stranger Things because I think I love the series because of the photography just as much as I love the plot and characters. The unsettling images keep me riveted to the screen. Thanks, as always, for such an in-depth discussion of photography. You’re the best!
Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that UA-cam doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.
This deserves way more views :(
I was pretty blown away when I saw Hido's shots. And then felt kinda mad that I didn't think of that. Medium to Large format camera. DOF for days. Long exposures at night with these creepy houses that I grew up with in suburbia in the 80's. It just felt so right. Ya, his work is great.
The liminal space is often experienced also in video games, for me often in Valve games like Half-life and Counter Strike: when you find yourself in what's basically a "kill room" completely alone, without other players or bots, and you focus your attention on the texture of the virtual world, the later becomes eerily uncanny (in the sense familiar and unfamiliar).
Well ... now i m sure .U are Morgan Freeman of photography man !They way u connect ur narration with the images .. and even more the sounds,or music u use is unique !I really love watching ur work as i know that i will learn something new every time with an unique entertaining and specific way of yours!Great job man ,great job.U are an inspiration to many of us that are just starting.In the end i have to mention of course that i didn't know about Todd Hiddo but i definetely know that i admire him a lot.All these emotions from his work .. this is the reason of a photogfrapher.Creating feelings.Thanks for sharing man
Any image that offers a ? mark in it as Hopper and Hido's images do, will send the viewer onto a journey into the unknown to explore. As viewers we choose our own individual path which might lead to us to a solution. Lovely, love these images and video.
Jamie thanks a lot, for opening the world of photography through your videos. You're a master.
Excellent video, Jamie. I don’t think any of these pictures and paintings were intended to be predictive but... here we are.
Its not hard to look into a Todd Hido photograph and not think of the desolation and abandonment left behind by the lives lived and departed from the spaces seen in the photos. Here I suspect, the simple clarity of loss looms large for most of us, as does our own desires to fill the voids with our imagination, and personal inflections. For me personally, I think his photos open doors into the dark shaded corners of my own memories those of my adolescent mind, long trapped and almost forgotten.
Nice vdeo. Good description of that feeling. I definitely experienced it during the first lockdown of 2020, had to pick up something from a shop in a usually bustling shopping centre, it was bizarre, no music, no people murmuring and chattering, absolute silence, with the only noise being the squeak of my shoes on the polished tile floor echoing with extraordinary reverberation. Of course there was also the feeling that 'should I have been there picking up some spectacles for someone else who cannot see? Would the police ask me if this was essential?' This was back in april, when the media had convinced many people we were all going to die.
Jamie Windsor photo essays are simply the best.
Thank you for this video Mister Windsor
Todd Hido is actually one of my favorite photographer. I am glad I know a little bit more about him
now.
Have a good one
Peace
Thank you!
thank you. just thank you
Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.
Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.
Great video. We rarely see stuff about subjective than objectiveness of photography. Thanks🎉
loved this. his work (and liminal spaces in general) feel so peaceful to me.
Just got Tod's early works and now a video from the best photography yt creator. Feeling blessed
I love your videos Jamie! UA-cam is awash with videos about gear and tech and settings, so it's really refreshing to find a channel that engages in the art and history of photography and visual culture.
I've come back and watched this video a dozen of times, each time with a new discovery. It's definitely changed how I see and feel about Hido's work and now I'm the biggest fan. Thank you for this masterpiece of a content, Jamie!
I notice that points of interest are often positioned on the periphery of his images. Open doors, windows, and streetlights are usually just on the edge of the image, and I feel like that contributes - at least in my case - to a feeling of something or someone being right over my shoulder but just out of view.
One of the best presenting manner on YT. 👏🏻
What a brilliant video! It struck me though that while the mood of all the images is sombre, the level of unease reduces if there is some 'life' in the images even if it's not human. It could be trees that seem trimmed, or even power lines that seem to be 'source' of the light in the window. A car that looks recently driven. Those images are far less disturbing, because it makes you think the inhabitants are just out, rather than the space has been completely abandoned. Like others have said in the comments, during the height of the pandemic, it was ghastly seeing places like NYC sparsely populated - whether it was Grand Central or Times Square. I have always hated crowds, but what I wouldn't have given at the time to be jostling with strangers and having a typical New Yorker yell at someone to get the hell out of their way.
Thank you very much for opening my eyes Jamie! I'm feeling inspiration coming back again.
When a simple photography tutorial search led us to a philosophical path into our endless conscience.
Thank you, Jamie. Another extraordinary deep dive behind the pixels.
I'd recommend his book "...On Landscapes, Interiors and the Nude." Interesting to read what he thinks about his work. He suggests that he stumbled into his nighttime exteriors because he wasn't done shooting one day but once he found his metier he's incredibly thoughtful about the work. Well worth searching the book out, I think.
And I'd recommend the new Arlo Parks video - Caroline. Clearly influenced by his interiors: first with people then without them at the end for added creepiness.
Thanks for this - amazing video as ever.
thank you for putting into words what so many of us only have a feeling about. Really really helpful.
My favourite photographer. Nice one Jamie!
I love that in every video you make me discover a new photographer!!
I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.
fantestic video jamie, one of the best even. buthonestly. I've never felt this in todd hido's work. your music tries to imply this and I can emphasize it. however, I've always found his houses comforting because the light shows that there are still people there and you're not alone in the night.
so different can be the perception. I am also constantly in dilapidated houses on the road. I find it nice there. 😅
There are a lot of people who find his work very comforting. This vast discrepancy in responses is one of the reasons I like it so much.
The walking through halls alone definitely is unnerving sometimes. Almost a cold reminder of how much people want to not be alone. Great video. Glad I found your channel.
Looking at the Homes at Night collection evokes the same feeling as watching that really creepy Courage the cowardly dog episode, or imagining my self trapped in an old theatre at night.
J W on Todd Hido ... it doesn’t get better! Thanks J W
This was such a fantastic presentation! Deserves SO many more views :)
Thank You very much! I have had never before heard of Todd Hido, but i think it's brilliant! It gives a very strong "twilight zone" feeling, and makes You feel slightly uncomfortable.
I was unknowingly doing the same, mostly keep people out of frame so that viewers can interpret thier own version.
I had a similar experience as a teen- a crumbling factory that seemed haunted yet eloquent, the melancholy of disuse, riffing on memory, loss, failure of lofty ambitions.
I came across your long exposure video and now this one. These are fantastic in the way they are shown. Incredibly inspiring and well described.
He crops most of the doorways or windows out of frame. But a sliver of the window or doorway remains. You know it’s there, it’s even open, but you can’t see through it. - it reminds me of this quote regarding Rosemary’s Baby: Fraker remembered, “I didn’t get it until we were in dailies and I saw everyone leaning in their seats, trying to look around the edge of the door frame to see what was happening.”
Man, I don't really care for or like his work, but I really like the way you've analyzed it.
Yup, you're officially my favourite youtuber
Jamie you should be making documentaries for big broadcasters, you're THAT good. Honestly. This was a seriously engaging piece of work.
That's interesting because I don't feel this "uneasy" thing that you said, I feel "calm" like "oh, that's a clean image, not a chaos of things and objects". Maybe this happens because these places are not familiar for me, maybe if was my old school, I would feel it 🤔
I get this feeling that I'm some dangerous person hunting someone down to their house, and whoever I'm going to get is in the lit room. On a flip side, I also get the reverse feeling that I need to hide and whoever is in the lit room woke up to get me.
This is one of your best videos yet. Absolutely love it.
So excited about the upcoming Portra preset!!!
Thought provoking. Perfect. Thanks.
This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow
I want to praise not only how good the content is, but how amazing is the production quality of your videos. You are a light of quality in the fog of UA-cam channels. Please, do more videos.
Thank you so much for your work, Jamie.
Ever since Solar Sands made a video about liminal spaces I've been hooked and I can't get enough of it. For some reason it's very inspirational to me. Most of the liminal photos and paintings aren't even pretty, but still...there's something there.
Another brilliant, thought provoking film Jamie...you’re a natural educator!
Recently read the aperture book written by Hido. Loved it. Great work putting this together.
I lead tours in an asylum that is being preserved and reused. The main building has been restored to a glorious state. The outlying cottages are something else. I love this sort of stuff because your brain creates it's own narrative for the place you're in. Great video!
very Freudian, Unheimlich. Thanks Jamie.
He DID take the photo for the Neck of the Woods album cover. I saw his work in the earlier part of the video and sid to myself "reminds me of that silversun pickups album cover"
You’re a genius. Articulate, thoughtful, and incredibly humble.
That brilliant comment of yours on Tom Scott's Teasmade-Balkan-collection brought me here. This brilliant video made me subscribe. Interesting way, I thought.
Also, I'm an artist, and I find in my work, the more "people", or rather, creatures, I put into a picture, the more uneasy it gets. In empty spaces, I'm fine, it's the fear of who might be there with me, hidden somewhere, that gives me the creeps. But there's others, too, different moods, different outlook. Basic psychology.
Off to the ideas-video now, thanks!
I love this sooooo much!
You make a great narrator. I was immersed.
Always realising gems of videos - so much more interesting than another summary of the Sony a1...
I’ve been obsessed with hido since 2017
Great video, Jamie!!
Love those videos you make about the philosophy of photography Jamie. Thank you for the great content.
Love this!
Thanks for another great video Jamie! Really enjoy being introduced to new photographers and their work.
Except the british accent that i love to hear, Jamie's channel is remarkable. Really great work and i think content about thinking and understanding is much more useful and ispiring than content about gear . I love the documentary - lecture style videos. Keep up with the great work! Greetings from Greece