This is why I watch every video you upload Jamie! So interesting! I’m currently dealing with structuring my book from Mexico City and I actually though about splitting the photographs up based on where they were shot. But now, I’m certain that I’m going to structure the photographs based on what they show and what they convey. Thanks for this!
Thank you. Curating a pagination for a book can really change what story it tells. Juxtaposing 2 images on a spread can add a whole new meaning that isn't present in the photos individually. Best of luck with it!
I feel like each video essay you put out surpasses the one before and that is ASTOUNDING, since they are all so good, consistently good and rich in substance! Everything is distilled to pure quality, visually and thematically too! 💯
Such a great video as always. After watching your videos I set out with my camera for a day just to take pictures. I’d never done it before but it was great fun.
This makes me wonder what other books have I not yet read but probably should. Perhaps there could be a list of book recommendations in the future? This concept of a book summary was executed very well, and incredibly enjoyable.
Other classics are Susan Sontag's "On Photography" (makes most photogaphers gringe, but a good read, one often used as a reference), Vilém Flusser's "Toward a Philosophy of Photography", Lewis Baltz's "Texts", Robert Adams's "Beauty in Photography", John Berger's "About Looking"... for a start.
Bruno Chalifour I read Sontag's book and immediately gave it away. Her histories of famous photographers were interesting but I could not accept her conclusions about them; e.g., that Diane Arbus' suicide proved that her work was sincere.
I’ve just discovered your channel and after having being living in sort of a languishing void of the past year it has really reignited me in a creative way. Thank you so much
This is not a UA-cam video, this is a piece of art, a documentary. very impressive editing and pace, and all these little things like fonts reflecting the mood of the narrative. wow!
Jamie, you have helped me a lot in my photography career, you and books like "Photographic Seeing" by Andreas Feininger and "Complete Photography" by National Geographic, with all this I have developed into an award winning photographer from the US gov and I just wanted to thank you. I took photography all four years of highschool and this was my last, my teacher told me before I left I'd be used as an example for the other students that are coming after me. Your work helped me start thinking less like a photographer and more like an artist. I need to be an artist to be a photographer, so thank you for helping me unlock that.
As always, James, very thought provoking. I align with the concept that our photos need to have a "punctum" to create that emotional connection. But as soon as we place that as our objective we are shooting for the audience and not ourselves. After decades of client work it's been hard as hell to get those voices out of my head.
After a wedding I leave it one week before even LOOKING at the images. I edit another month later. I try and tell the clients to be as patient as possible, it's about editing, leaving it, coming back, having a look again, retouch the edits, continue on, so on so forth. These images they will have forever, for me they leave the nest relatively quickly. The longer they leave it with me the more gold I find and I steer the images better. It's just hard to explain that. Maybe I bookmark this video and copy the url into every post wedding email, heh.
The way you make and edit your videos, not even one fraction of a second is being wasted. Also, great topics - you always provide us with new stuff and for that I am gratefull.
Your presets are the only ones I've ever bought. Very happy with them. I feel like they're the closest thing I can get to answering "what might Jamie try to do with this photo I've taken?" and I'll throw some of them on as a wild card curve ball new starting point which throws the edit out of the box whenever I'm stuck in a box or otherwise out of ideas. I used to see presets as "here, copy what I do" or "if you don't know how to edit, I'll do it for you" but now I appreciate them as being able to bring in a new perspective on how a photo might be able to feel and it's actually expanded my understanding of editing, not diminished it or made me lazy as I'd previously assumed presets were intended to do.
you and Sean Tucker are the best (photography related) content creators on your UA-cam right now! You keep me motivated and I learn so much in each video! thanks you!
And Dan Milnor! And some old Art of Photography with Ted Forbes.. yes! Edit: Oh wait and John Free .. check this guy out. He’s old and wise and loves life hard. He’s coming out with a book on rail yard tramps soon!! His first book, surprisingly!
check James Popsys, he is someone redefining the photography (to me at least) in the sense of follow the rules, learn the rules, and break the rules of composition. He takes photos about the objects instead of the objects.
A year is a long enough time to feel differently about your shots, but that process doesn't end there, it continues to change throughout ones life. I delete obvious failures and lesser alternate shots, but keep *everything* else. Thanks for such a thoughtful video.
Love this video. My grandfather (painter) always taught me true art must touch the viewer without an explanation, as soon as you add a explanation you are controlling the audience's thoughts and no longer touching it.
Similar parallels to rhetoric - studium being logos, and punctum being the blend of ethos and the all-important pathos triggered in the audience. Possibly, Logos = Studium; Ethos = Photographer's eye and timing of when they press the shutter; Punctum = What is triggered in the viewer/ audience. Thanks, Jamie, for a really thought-provoking 10-minutes.
@@jamiewindsor This reminds me of something that the Gangnam Style guy said. He was being interviewed on some British entertainment show, and was asked about creating this phenomenon that is Gangnam style. He said I didn't create it. All I did was write a song. The public created the phenomenon. He was actually very humble about it. I wish American actors and musicians would be that way, but most of them have an arrogance beyond all bounds.
My master's is in poetry, so I first learned about Barthes through literary theory. (1) I think you did a great job summarizing his work here, Jamie, and as always, great video. :) (2) I find just about everything Barthes suggests to be full of air. Sometimes, I think his explanation fits my reaction to others' work. But, I can honestly find no punctum in several iconic photographs that resonate deeply with me and indeed, the context of their message was revealed to me by the image alone; I had no prior knowledge of the subject matter prior to viewing the photos. His theory can't be applied to all photos everywhere. (3) I'm an old-school structuralist so maybe I'm just biased too much against post-modern french philosophers. Because biased I most certainly am. :) For my money, Propp, Levi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell constructed much more compelling arguments than anything in Barthes' "Mythologies." If literature was his wheelhouse, just how on-the-mark could he be with photography? But yes, I'm a crank like that. (4) I fully agree with your conclusion that portfolio photos should stand on their own. I've no special or significant insight here, but I think one gets better at being self-objective over time, even though it never becomes easy. (That's at least been true with my own writing.)
Ahhh as always Jamie, I love these videos in which you share your philosophical thoughts on a topic in photography! I relate to your thought process🤔 I also found it amazing that you were referring to this book. Do you happen to recommend anymore books of this sort?🤗
There are some random photos that spark very intense feelings in me, while could be nothing to someone else. Sometimes it’s about to time in my life that I’ve been and it just reminds me of it. As photography saved me many times, mentally.
Jamie, your videos just.....hit and touch on things that are so simple yet i feel that i come out the other side fresh and new with info. I really appreciate the efforts and the amount of care thats put in.
Fantastic, as always. Philosophical, engaging, beautifully shot, constructed and presented. Real food for thought. I will look at images in a slightly different way from now on. Well done.
Thanks for another thought provoking video. I had this exact experience over the past few months going through old photos and finding photos jump out at me that I hadn’t thought much of before.
Detaching myself emotionally from my photos is so difficult. I guess I really have to let them sit and marinate for awhile before I look at them. What a brilliant video.
btw, the way you presented this video is so professional, cinematographic sublime experience. and your voice and the way is recorded keeps you watching until the end. Great work.
This is the first video I see from this channel after becoming its patreon. It's an awesome feeling to know that I'm contributing a little to the creation of this content. Thank you much!
A couple of years ago I found myself looking at old photos on my computer and decided to make a book of the most interesting photos for each year. Some I consider the best of the year but most of then are ones that stood out for me when reviewing the photos from that year. I make a book of all of them and a calendar for friends and family of the last year of twelve of the images. I get my three children (23,18,12 yrs old) to help me narrow down the images for my calendar. I am always surprised and curious about the ones they choose because they are not only always my first choice. The books are not expensive but give me a chance to look at how my photography has changed over time and does not let them get shuttered away in the depths of my hard drive. Great video. I always find that they stretch and exercise my brain. Thanks
Jamie, your videos are so well made, so inspirational. Many of them made me question my approach of photography, and integrate so many interesting concepts and point of views in it. Thanks for that wonderful job you're doing.
What a video. Bravo. 👏 As a wedding photographer, this is something I’ve been suspicious of when editing, and when choosing images on my portfolio. I am very emotionally attached to a ‘day’ and find I have to almost leave the images after the shoot for a week, just to remove my emotional attachment and enable me to start the edit process. Thank you for this, and for having a channel that focusses on photography. It’s so needed and very welcome. If our paths cross one day, drinks are on me. 👍
This was so profound! I've always wondered why certain photos evoke deep feelings within me, but have never been able to put a word for it. I've also wondered why some photos that are obviously composed to speak on a political or cultural level often make me feel nothing at all.
Such a gift for intentional teaching and vivid transitions or visual representations of a particular point. Real source of joy seeing beautiful and clever work. Thanks bro!
Another great video from Jamie, Barthes can sometimes seem irrelevant in today's world of photography and daunting to newcomers. Breaking it down like this, with great context and narrative shows how relevant his work still is today.
This puts into words something I have always wondered when visiting galleries; there's the moment you see a work for the first time and start to wonder how it makes you feel, and then you read the artist's exhibit statement and find yourself wondering (often subconsciously), 'did I interpret that work correctly?'
Probably my most popular image I completely missed the first time around. A full 6 years later I re-visted the shoot and it completely hit me, I retouched it put it out there and then started selling it in galleries. Sometimes we are not the best at editing our own work and need to come back with fresh eyes (not just a day later, but a year or so).
Thanks!! Another excellent and engaging video by Jamie Windsor ... I learnt a lot. Its difficult, on your own, to judge what will be essential emotional hooks for others who are looking at the work from the perspective of a different stage of their own emotional journeys. I'll struggle with that as best I can and seek feedback to approach improvment if not perfection. But above all your video provides a language to address this with. If leaves are the fragments of our experience, your videos provide the structure (the trunk and boughs) which connects them and makes sense of a tree. Great stuff, mate! Nice one.
This could have been about 20 minutes longer, this is the stuff of real photography! There is so much to discus down this rabbit hole. I personally have a process that has me revisiting shoots over years with regular revisions and reworking to arrive at the "final" image. I actively interrogate my idea of why the image is there at all, why it matters outside my own attachment until that attachment changes into something else. I actually try to think of it as breaking down my own ego abut the thing until it earns a new place for me. Obviously that in itself is a new presentation of my ego but I feel at least it's been more earned! Your videos are among the best on youtube!
In my 4th (Honours) year of a photomedia degree and this is one of the most precise and useful summaries of Barthes concept that I have found. Thank you Jamie and I shall be recommending this (and your other videos) to my classmates.
What I did more last year than this year was that I waited more time to develop the film I used, but also I first take a look at my scans briefly when I get them, and wait some time before considering them fully
Thanks so much for this succinct look at Camera Lucida and the clear defining of the term "Punctum." I'm new to studying Roland Barthes. Very interesting writer.
Such an exciting video this is. I recently read Camera Lucida and was quite moved; then along came Susan Sontag's "On Photography" to put me away. Thanks for bringing their ideas back to mind. Also thank you for the wonderfully fun video you produced -- a nice change of pace.
Thanks for the clear explanation of what Barthes was getting at regarding the punctum. I thought maybe I was missing something, but I guess not. When I show my photos, people rarely like my favorites and I assume that it's due to me seeing my own punctums (or should that be puncta?) which are radically different than for others.
Just ordered this book after finding your channel. Agree that we have little control over how an image is perceived but it’s given me a new lens to view my portfolio…
I always discover something new and interesting watching your videos - more about the thought behind the image. It helps my photography far more than a simplistic technical approach. I really enjoyed your pervious video on Dunning Kreuger syndrome. After watching that I discovered I knew everything.
Jamie this was truly a step above. A real masterpiece of a video, along with a very important message. It's only for something small like instagram, but I'll often go back and look through my archives to find stuff to post, and new photos jump out at my every single time. Thanks for taking the time!
What I like about French philosophers: They inspire you, they don't seem so much wanting to "prove their point" (as esp. American and German philosophers do). Similar with photographs. When they scream "Look, I made it to the mountain top!" or "Look, how great this holiday evening was!", we simply cannot share this emotion. Ironically a wedding photographer pictures not his own emotions but those of the people on the wedding. That is why they are a grateful audience.
This is brilliant, I love the way you inform and the way you question and challenge even your own work which helps us to relax, when forming opinions of our own work. If you do a workshop anytime I’d love to attend. Maybe a celebration of “great photographers of modern London” as an idea.
Your use of visuals to accompany the dialogue in place of B roll is so good.
it really is
This is why I watch every video you upload Jamie! So interesting! I’m currently dealing with structuring my book from Mexico City and I actually though about splitting the photographs up based on where they were shot. But now, I’m certain that I’m going to structure the photographs based on what they show and what they convey. Thanks for this!
Thank you. Curating a pagination for a book can really change what story it tells. Juxtaposing 2 images on a spread can add a whole new meaning that isn't present in the photos individually. Best of luck with it!
wow! instant practicality
i feel the same way about his channel
I feel like each video essay you put out surpasses the one before and that is ASTOUNDING, since they are all so good, consistently good and rich in substance! Everything is distilled to pure quality, visually and thematically too! 💯
Thank you.
Spot on praise. 100% agree.
distilled!
this word is jamie’s work here in a nutshell
yes
Such a great video as always. After watching your videos I set out with my camera for a day just to take pictures. I’d never done it before but it was great fun.
whatever inspires people to take action is worth reflecting upon.
jamie’s offerings do the same for me. on a weekly basis at least
Jamie, your videos are so clever, so thought provoking and so beautifully produced. Thank you.
Notification Squad, UNITE!! I always get stoked for a new video from Jamie!!
This makes me wonder what other books have I not yet read but probably should. Perhaps there could be a list of book recommendations in the future? This concept of a book summary was executed very well, and incredibly enjoyable.
Other classics are Susan Sontag's "On Photography" (makes most photogaphers gringe, but a good read, one often used as a reference), Vilém Flusser's "Toward a Philosophy of Photography", Lewis Baltz's "Texts", Robert Adams's "Beauty in Photography", John Berger's "About Looking"... for a start.
Yes! Good idea 👍
@@BrunoChalifour Many thanks! I'll certainly be saving these for later.
a list. yes!
i feel the same way
Bruno Chalifour I read Sontag's book and immediately gave it away. Her histories of famous photographers were interesting but I could not accept her conclusions about them; e.g., that Diane Arbus' suicide proved that her work was sincere.
I’ve just discovered your channel and after having being living in sort of a languishing void of the past year it has really reignited me in a creative way. Thank you so much
These video essays make your channel the best photography channel on here. Thank you
This is not a UA-cam video, this is a piece of art, a documentary. very impressive editing and pace, and all these little things like fonts reflecting the mood of the narrative. wow!
Jamie, you have helped me a lot in my photography career, you and books like "Photographic Seeing" by Andreas Feininger and "Complete Photography" by National Geographic, with all this I have developed into an award winning photographer from the US gov and I just wanted to thank you. I took photography all four years of highschool and this was my last, my teacher told me before I left I'd be used as an example for the other students that are coming after me. Your work helped me start thinking less like a photographer and more like an artist. I need to be an artist to be a photographer, so thank you for helping me unlock that.
As always, James, very thought provoking.
I align with the concept that our photos need to have a "punctum" to create that emotional connection. But as soon as we place that as our objective we are shooting for the audience and not ourselves. After decades of client work it's been hard as hell to get those voices out of my head.
After a wedding I leave it one week before even LOOKING at the images. I edit another month later. I try and tell the clients to be as patient as possible, it's about editing, leaving it, coming back, having a look again, retouch the edits, continue on, so on so forth. These images they will have forever, for me they leave the nest relatively quickly. The longer they leave it with me the more gold I find and I steer the images better. It's just hard to explain that. Maybe I bookmark this video and copy the url into every post wedding email, heh.
The way you make and edit your videos, not even one fraction of a second is being wasted.
Also, great topics - you always provide us with new stuff and for that I am gratefull.
Love from Iraq a big fan of your content bro ❤️🇮🇶
Your presets are the only ones I've ever bought. Very happy with them. I feel like they're the closest thing I can get to answering "what might Jamie try to do with this photo I've taken?" and I'll throw some of them on as a wild card curve ball new starting point which throws the edit out of the box whenever I'm stuck in a box or otherwise out of ideas. I used to see presets as "here, copy what I do" or "if you don't know how to edit, I'll do it for you" but now I appreciate them as being able to bring in a new perspective on how a photo might be able to feel and it's actually expanded my understanding of editing, not diminished it or made me lazy as I'd previously assumed presets were intended to do.
I come again and again to review your videos. Such a fan. I can not get enough of them!
Thank you. Glad you like them. I have a new one coming out early next week.
you and Sean Tucker are the best (photography related) content creators on your UA-cam right now! You keep me motivated and I learn so much in each video! thanks you!
And Dan Milnor! And some old Art of Photography with Ted Forbes.. yes! Edit: Oh wait and John Free .. check this guy out. He’s old and wise and loves life hard. He’s coming out with a book on rail yard tramps soon!! His first book, surprisingly!
check James Popsys, he is someone redefining the photography (to me at least) in the sense of follow the rules, learn the rules, and break the rules of composition. He takes photos about the objects instead of the objects.
I am impressed with the visual and audio quality and the precise pacing of your videos. They are both interesting and a joy to watch.
A year is a long enough time to feel differently about your shots, but that process doesn't end there, it continues to change throughout ones life. I delete obvious failures and lesser alternate shots, but keep *everything* else.
Thanks for such a thoughtful video.
Love this video. My grandfather (painter) always taught me true art must touch the viewer without an explanation, as soon as you add a explanation you are controlling the audience's thoughts and no longer touching it.
Similar parallels to rhetoric - studium being logos, and punctum being the blend of ethos and the all-important pathos triggered in the audience.
Possibly, Logos = Studium; Ethos = Photographer's eye and timing of when they press the shutter; Punctum = What is triggered in the viewer/ audience.
Thanks, Jamie, for a really thought-provoking 10-minutes.
Garry Winogrand would take a whole year to develop his pictures. He said that he needed to be emotionally detached from the pictures.
And also because he shot a lot of rolls, he didn't have enough time to develop them, not to mention seeing.
I can completely relate to that.
Not forgetting the 2,500 rolls that he never developed..! 😁
Same, yep, that’s exactly why I take so long to develop/process/edit my photos, that’s all it is 👀
@@jamiewindsor This reminds me of something that the Gangnam Style guy said. He was being interviewed on some British entertainment show, and was asked about creating this phenomenon that is Gangnam style. He said I didn't create it. All I did was write a song. The public created the phenomenon. He was actually very humble about it. I wish American actors and musicians would be that way, but most of them have an arrogance beyond all bounds.
My master's is in poetry, so I first learned about Barthes through literary theory. (1) I think you did a great job summarizing his work here, Jamie, and as always, great video. :) (2) I find just about everything Barthes suggests to be full of air. Sometimes, I think his explanation fits my reaction to others' work. But, I can honestly find no punctum in several iconic photographs that resonate deeply with me and indeed, the context of their message was revealed to me by the image alone; I had no prior knowledge of the subject matter prior to viewing the photos. His theory can't be applied to all photos everywhere. (3) I'm an old-school structuralist so maybe I'm just biased too much against post-modern french philosophers. Because biased I most certainly am. :) For my money, Propp, Levi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell constructed much more compelling arguments than anything in Barthes' "Mythologies." If literature was his wheelhouse, just how on-the-mark could he be with photography? But yes, I'm a crank like that. (4) I fully agree with your conclusion that portfolio photos should stand on their own. I've no special or significant insight here, but I think one gets better at being self-objective over time, even though it never becomes easy. (That's at least been true with my own writing.)
Your videos are so pleasing to watch.
They are little art pieces🙏🏻
Ahhh as always Jamie, I love these videos in which you share your philosophical thoughts on a topic in photography! I relate to your thought process🤔
I also found it amazing that you were referring to this book. Do you happen to recommend anymore books of this sort?🤗
There are some random photos that spark very intense feelings in me, while could be nothing to someone else. Sometimes it’s about to time in my life that I’ve been and it just reminds me of it. As photography saved me many times, mentally.
Incredible video. So thoughtful and stimulating. Excellent work, Jamie!
Simply the best channel actually about photography
My favorite photo youtuber. I like your scientific and intelligent approach, not to mention killer editing! Keep 'em coming Jamie!
INCREDIBLE video dissertation as always, Jamie.
I'm really impressed with your after effects skills. Can you please do a video on your video production process?
It is always good to question yourself... Photography being just one aspect... A pleasure to hear your musings, always thought provoking. Thanks
Jamie, your videos just.....hit and touch on things that are so simple yet i feel that i come out the other side fresh and new with info. I really appreciate the efforts and the amount of care thats put in.
Fantastic, as always. Philosophical, engaging, beautifully shot, constructed and presented. Real food for thought. I will look at images in a slightly different way from now on. Well done.
Your editing is so good. I come here for the great photography talks and the motion design inspo. Love the channel!!
Yep. You’re still my favourite content maker. Thanks for continuing to reassure me!
Thanks for another thought provoking video. I had this exact experience over the past few months going through old photos and finding photos jump out at me that I hadn’t thought much of before.
Outstanding visual effects, plus words sewed from a golden thread
I really appreciate the level of effort you put into your videos. It must be a staggering amount of work.
Great video, Jamie. Your videos are such a refreshing treat.
Detaching myself emotionally from my photos is so difficult. I guess I really have to let them sit and marinate for awhile before I look at them. What a brilliant video.
the amount of respect and admiration i hold for your content is immense, all love
Once again, an amazingly insightful post! Thank you Jamie!
btw, the way you presented this video is so professional, cinematographic sublime experience. and your voice and the way is recorded keeps you watching until the end. Great work.
You are an amazing Story Teller… thank you so much
Your videos are so well put together and presented Jamie congratulations.
Always a joy to watch your content...
Thank you for the fruit for thought🙏
The graphic and font animations are so awesome! just watched 1,5 minutes and im very
impressed!
What an amazingly crafted video. Thank you for your dedication to details and overall great storytelling. Thank you
This is the first video I see from this channel after becoming its patreon. It's an awesome feeling to know that I'm contributing a little to the creation of this content. Thank you much!
Glad to see you back, it's been a long time, and I really missed to learn more from your videos, homework to do and a new book to find and read! 🙏
Thought provoking and visually appealing as always. Many thanks.
A couple of years ago I found myself looking at old photos on my computer and decided to make a book of the most interesting photos for each year. Some I consider the best of the year but most of then are ones that stood out for me when reviewing the photos from that year. I make a book of all of them and a calendar for friends and family of the last year of twelve of the images. I get my three children (23,18,12 yrs old) to help me narrow down the images for my calendar. I am always surprised and curious about the ones they choose because they are not only always my first choice. The books are not expensive but give me a chance to look at how my photography has changed over time and does not let them get shuttered away in the depths of my hard drive. Great video. I always find that they stretch and exercise my brain. Thanks
Jamie, your videos are so well made, so inspirational. Many of them made me question my approach of photography, and integrate so many interesting concepts and point of views in it. Thanks for that wonderful job you're doing.
Jamie this video's was AMAZING!!! You are REALLY developing your visualness!!!
These videos are getting better and better, hat down
What a video. Bravo. 👏
As a wedding photographer, this is something I’ve been suspicious of when editing, and when choosing images on my portfolio. I am very emotionally attached to a ‘day’ and find I have to almost leave the images after the shoot for a week, just to remove my emotional attachment and enable me to start the edit process.
Thank you for this, and for having a channel that focusses on photography. It’s so needed and very welcome.
If our paths cross one day, drinks are on me. 👍
Only time tells. Awesome video, as always. Thank you, Jamie!
This was so profound! I've always wondered why certain photos evoke deep feelings within me, but have never been able to put a word for it. I've also wondered why some photos that are obviously composed to speak on a political or cultural level often make me feel nothing at all.
Thank you for your videos Jamie! Especially the video about the colors was insanely good!
Amazing video, as always. Additionally, your selection of music... superb!
Great video! The best explanation I have ever heard regarding Punctum.
Such a gift for intentional teaching and vivid transitions or visual representations of a particular point. Real source of joy seeing beautiful and clever work. Thanks bro!
Another great video from Jamie, Barthes can sometimes seem irrelevant in today's world of photography and daunting to newcomers. Breaking it down like this, with great context and narrative shows how relevant his work still is today.
Love your graphics and the way you illustrate your thesis.
This puts into words something I have always wondered when visiting galleries; there's the moment you see a work for the first time and start to wonder how it makes you feel, and then you read the artist's exhibit statement and find yourself wondering (often subconsciously), 'did I interpret that work correctly?'
Fab! Really enjoyed the editing :) can't imagine how much work went into it
another masterpiece.. loving the special fx and montage as well as the message. thank you
Brilliant video as always Jaime, great subject. Thanks for sharing.
Probably my most popular image I completely missed the first time around. A full 6 years later I re-visted the shoot and it completely hit me, I retouched it put it out there and then started selling it in galleries. Sometimes we are not the best at editing our own work and need to come back with fresh eyes (not just a day later, but a year or so).
I love all your videos even though they usually make my brain hurt! Superb production as always.
Fantastic video. Only discovered your channel in last week, now catching up. Really excellent, thanks.
Unfortunately most people wouldn't recognize the art potential of that and your other videos.
You've got an excellent feeling for aesthetics 👌
The punctum to a photo changes with time and subject. Thanks for your videos X
Beautifully put together and thought provoking video.
Thanks!! Another excellent and engaging video by Jamie Windsor ... I learnt a lot. Its difficult, on your own, to judge what will be essential emotional hooks for others who are looking at the work from the perspective of a different stage of their own emotional journeys. I'll struggle with that as best I can and seek feedback to approach improvment if not perfection. But above all your video provides a language to address this with. If leaves are the fragments of our experience, your videos provide the structure (the trunk and boughs) which connects them and makes sense of a tree. Great stuff, mate! Nice one.
This could have been about 20 minutes longer, this is the stuff of real photography! There is so much to discus down this rabbit hole.
I personally have a process that has me revisiting shoots over years with regular revisions and reworking to arrive at the "final" image. I actively interrogate my idea of why the image is there at all, why it matters outside my own attachment until that attachment changes into something else. I actually try to think of it as breaking down my own ego abut the thing until it earns a new place for me. Obviously that in itself is a new presentation of my ego but I feel at least it's been more earned!
Your videos are among the best on youtube!
In my 4th (Honours) year of a photomedia degree and this is one of the most precise and useful summaries of Barthes concept that I have found. Thank you Jamie and I shall be recommending this (and your other videos) to my classmates.
wow!! 8 minutes of super interesting info. best photography content on youtube. thanks!
You are a genius! Your videos are very smart and you take into account every detail. Congratulations from Mexico!
A great info and deep insight!! By far, you are the best tutor in this mysterious filed. Thanks much, my mate!!
Your videos, Jamie, are so insightful and beautifully shot and edited. Thank you.
What I did more last year than this year was that I waited more time to develop the film I used, but also I first take a look at my scans briefly when I get them, and wait some time before considering them fully
Awesome content! Thanks for sharing this creative and clear approach on the ideas.
Thanks so much for this succinct look at Camera Lucida and the clear defining of the term "Punctum." I'm new to studying Roland Barthes. Very interesting writer.
This is the level and style of 'content' that this world should have and consume! My tremendous regards to you as an artist
Such an exciting video this is. I recently read Camera Lucida and was quite moved; then along came Susan Sontag's "On Photography" to put me away. Thanks for bringing their ideas back to mind. Also thank you for the wonderfully fun video you produced -- a nice change of pace.
Absolutely love your videos Jamie
Thanks for this
Thanks for the clear explanation of what Barthes was getting at regarding the punctum. I thought maybe I was missing something, but I guess not. When I show my photos, people rarely like my favorites and I assume that it's due to me seeing my own punctums (or should that be puncta?) which are radically different than for others.
Jamie. I just paused the video to comment here. Your video edition is fantastic!!!
Just ordered this book after finding your channel. Agree that we have little control over how an image is perceived but it’s given me a new lens to view my portfolio…
My photography cerebral resource did it once again...another book on order. Graphics so on point. Thank you...
I always discover something new and interesting watching your videos - more about the thought behind the image. It helps my photography far more than a simplistic technical approach. I really enjoyed your pervious video on Dunning Kreuger syndrome. After watching that I discovered I knew everything.
Jamie this was truly a step above. A real masterpiece of a video, along with a very important message.
It's only for something small like instagram, but I'll often go back and look through my archives to find stuff to post, and new photos jump out at my every single time.
Thanks for taking the time!
What I like about French philosophers: They inspire you, they don't seem so much wanting to "prove their point" (as esp. American and German philosophers do). Similar with photographs. When they scream "Look, I made it to the mountain top!" or "Look, how great this holiday evening was!", we simply cannot share this emotion. Ironically a wedding photographer pictures not his own emotions but those of the people on the wedding. That is why they are a grateful audience.
Jamie! No words needed!
This is brilliant, I love the way you inform and the way you question and challenge even your own work which helps us to relax, when forming opinions of our own work. If you do a workshop anytime I’d love to attend. Maybe a celebration of “great photographers of modern London” as an idea.
Elegant and informative video as always.
Lord above, the faff you must go through pulling these together. Chapeau, sir