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 !
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.
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.
"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!
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.
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!
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.
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS POPPED UP IN MY UA-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 .
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!
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 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.
This is my favourite kind of photography video on UA-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!
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
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.
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%
He dropped a lot of gold. This was beautiful, Willem
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.
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!
Crazy to see. His work was the first photography that I really looked at. Definately got me into the hobby in a serious way
This is exactly what we need more of on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing WIllem
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 !
Spent the first 25 years of my life in Kent Ohio, also made my way out west, that was cool to hear
Thanks for sharing. Wasn’t familiar with Todd’s work. An amazing artist with a wonderful approach. Very quotable, too! 👍👍
This is beyond excellent (for me); thank you Willem!
This was such a beautiful Interview. What a milestone for you meeting him as well! :)
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.
I got introduced to him via Jason Momoas HBO Doc "On The Roam", nice to see his work on here as well now.
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.
"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 interview blew my mind. Such inspirational, unconventional imagery. Truly beautiful art. Thank you for doing this interview. Subscribed.
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.
Congratulations on this interview!
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!
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
Wow that was a great interview! I'd never heard Todd speak before. He has so many interesting ideas. Thank you!
Fantastic video about the Art and Soul of Photography. Thank you !
so you talk and show examples (pictures) what an idea? I am inspired ! Great teaching video. Chance Eye And camera in that order.
Man, thanks for this interview! Todd Hido is a phenomenal artist.
I just watched this. Again. I’ve already watched it twice. It’s difficult to put to words but simply summed up: Infectious.
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, Willem, for introducing me to Todd Hido’s work. Bought the book in a heartbeat - I’m so intrigued by the title as well.
Amazing video Willem, thank you for producing such an inspirational interview !
Love your work and your way of thinking photography. Very inspirational
Thanks so much for this. Fascinating storytelling and impactful images. Love the mysterious and eerie imagery of Todd Hido. Unique.
So many pearls of wisdom on this video, I need to rewatch it so I can make notes. Thank you for featuring Todd Hido 💛
Waaawww....He is like the final boss of walls and backyard photography!
This is fantastic, very well put together
Thanks, Willem, for doing this and putting it out into the world. Such a fascinating listen.
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.
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!
A true inspirational Master! Thanks for sharing this interview.
Wonderful perspective and insight. Thank you for sharing.
Such a helpful interview. I took so much from this. Thank you
for bringing such an incredible photographer to us.
What an interview, such an inspiring guy! Thanks for sharing this Willem!
Wonderful video. Thank you, Wiilem.
What a spectacular insight. Many thanks for sharing.
very inspiring...so glad I found this...
Full circle, congrats and thank you Willem !
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS POPPED UP IN MY UA-cam FEED FIRST! I KNEW OF HIS WORK PRIOR... BUT HEARING HIM TALK ABOUT HIS WORK PUT IT ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL!!!!💯🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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.
Such an insightful and interesting video, this is great. Thank you so much.
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 .
So well put together. Many interesting thoughts. I love Hido's work. Thank you!
This is so special Willem, I could listen to Todd talk forever! Thanks
I really appreciate this interview. Thanks for making it.
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!
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.
Truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing, Willem! ...and Todd, obviously
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!
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…
Soo many good lines. Lots of wisdom!
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.
Thank you for making this, Willem. Wonderfully made.
This is my favourite kind of photography video on UA-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!
I like his joy in photography (and also his pictures). 👏👏
This interview is amazing, I am pretty sure I will go back to this over and over again over the coming years.
what a fucking incredibly inspiring interview. thanks Willem and Todd
Amazing interview!
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
Fantastic video,inspiring.
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
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.
What a wonderful and interesting video! Thank you!
Thank you so much Willem, I needed that. Amazing work
So inspirational!! Great interview Willem
Actually amazing. Congrats and thank you for the wonderful interview!
What a lovely man - great insight.
"I'd rather have a better book than a nicer shirt." I wish I'd realised that a long time ago.
wow this made me emotional. so beautiful!
this could've been twice as long and it would've flew by, so many good bits in here
Very well done piece of work. Hope to see more of these!
Thank you for this.
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..
Crazy! Congrats man!
beautiful
Beautiful. Meaningful. Thoughtful. Love this video so much - awesome work by Todd Hido, and you too Willem.
so beautifully done
Great Interview!
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.
"I want to fill my world with things that make me think and want to make things"
Amazing video
Soooo cool Willem congrats!
Inspiration for those who think there is nothing interesting to photograph around them.
FULL CIRCLE 🙌🖤
Amazing & Greatly Inspiring, Thank you! 💯