10 Photos That Shaped My Photography
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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The 10 photos that shaped my photography.
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Photographers/Books Featured:
Daido Moriyama
Wong Kan Tai / Diana
Stuart Franklin / Magnum China
Harry Gruyaert / Harry Gruyaert Photofile
Marc Riboud
Greg Girard / City of Darkness
Mark Power
Alex Webb / The Suffering of Light
Ernst Haas / New York in Color
Vivian Maier / Vivian Maier Street Photographer
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I hope you are well. I miss your videos.
Yo man are you okay? No post here or on Instagram. Hope everything is okay buddy. We miss you and love you. Hope you find your way back to us.
Great ❤ thanks
phenomenal video. In a way your comment on Vivian Maier could be extended to all of the photographers that you mentioned. I always think that if these photos were taken today, they would be liked by a few people and forgotten immediately on Instagram.
I have to agree and I suppose it's the reason I don't bother with Instagram the 2 second gallery viewed for the most part on screens smaller than an old en print you got from film.
Beautiful and inspiring video. Thank you!
Bro, another full of inspiration video. Need to watch it again .😊
Thank you 🙏🏻
Everything OK? Long Time without new Videos
"Nice-looking images that make me happy." Yeah, that 😊
Very sad that you stopped making videos 😢
Your videos are very cool and almost feel like a mini film in each one
Awesome video and very inspiring. Like you I love to revisit my growing collection of photo books whenever I have a dry spell and it’s always guaranteed to life my spirits and fire up my passion for the streets. Thanks for sharing your journey 👍📷👍
Love the video.
Great choices.
Thanks for sharing the images and your thoughts
Hey Ivan😎✌️
Another awesome video from you! I found this film to be very entertaining it’s certainly inspirational. I have a soft spot for
Daidō Moriyama’s photography.
Looking forward to seeing your next film. 👍
Brilliant video as always! Even though I'm more of a 'video-guy' I always want to go out shooting still photo's after seeing your videos
Another stunning video … I have 4 out of your 10 as my 10 favorites. I also totally agree that Alex Webb book can be all as a favorite. Your work is impeccable Ivan.
Brilliant video, brilliant story telling. Glad I found you. 👍🏻
All of these photos have at one point given me that roller coaster ride of emotion. Excitement, jealousy, anger, depression, overthinking.. sometimes motivation too! But mostly jealousy.. omg the jealousy. Especially Alex Webbs work in Cuba from his book "The Violet Isle" My favorite of his is the semi-candid-street portrait of the two boys on the right on the gate fence then two ladies in the middle gound left and the man in the distance with his knee up.. then the colors.. wow the green wall and orange magenta sky.. all captured on kodachrome.. the fashion.. the light.. just burry me. I'm dead.
Thanks for sharing. Great video.
I love this channel so fucking much! Keep up the amazing work my man!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. All Photographs in this video are great. My favorite is the first one from Daido Moriyama. I like the eyes of the two men placed in the absolutely white face and the dark face of the woman behind them.
Looking forward for more of your content.
A wonderful insight. Thank you for sharing
Another solid vid , we share a lot of the same inspiration . I'd add that Saul Leiter Image on your shirt to my list ;)
Thanks for sharing, some great images and introduced me to a few I was unaware of.
A fabulous selection and wise words from you on photography, couldn’t agree more. I have a photograph that for many years I’ve constantly looked at for inspiration. Arguably it would appear that I haven’t learnt a lot from it! If you’re looking for layers, and although I’m an admirer of Alex Webb, then Sam Abell’s “Bull Branding and Castration” is the complete photograph in my opinion. If you haven’t already got his book “The Life Of A Photograph” I strongly recommend it.
Thank you so much for sharing your video’s. They’re intelligent, informative and superbly put together, they’re also one of the only reasons I venture on to UA-cam.
Awesome video; thank you so much. Since you love red and reflections and abstracts, I thought I would see something from Saul Leiter here. He's my biggest inspiration.
His photo is on the t-shirt 😏
Thanks Ivan
Saul Leiter was also really good at the kind of abstract street photography.
Yes.
He was wearing a Uniqlo shirt with a photo by Saul Leiter.
Love your content man, keep it up! Thank you
I imagine there are thousands of Vivian Meyers now with their cell phones quietly creating fantastic bodies of work that they do not share at all, and unlike Maier will never be shared. Maybe they do it solely for their own pleasure, edification and maybe because they can not stop the compulsion to create.
Picking ten photos that have become touchstones for your own work was an interesting subject. Do you hold them more dearly than ten favorites than you have created? Some images you created that might not check as many boxes within a technical, historic or artistic context, but are off the charts in the way you connect to them emotionally? 🤔
I actually have you as one of my favorites bro! Love your work and your storytelling style. I always look forward to your posts and am glad you keep coming back. Yes I am not famous and I have very few likes. However, I shoot coz I enjoy the process. I look back and I wanna enjoy my pictures of family and some that I enjoyed capturing over the years. Hope you will like them too.
you produce really nice VIDEOS
many of them are on my list, I especially like the way you mentioned making a street Image without the human element, this is very difficult
Great choices. City of Darkness is an incredible piece of work. I also like Michael Wolf’s Informal Solutions, a compilation of his work documenting the back alleys of Hong Kong and how people use them as extensions of their homes, storage spaces and workplaces. Thanks for introducing me to some work I didn’t know and for the Rozou concept in your HK video. I see there was a Rozou event in London in December. Interesting
Someday there must be photos album of 2019 Hong Kong.
Yes: Trent Parke, Minutes to midnight, "Moving bus".
Many of them are in my list. I don't think shooting without human elements is something I can do, but your words gave me food for thought.
Please keep sharing pictures like these. Also please give the names of the books you like. I am building a collection.
Listed most of the books in the description, check it out 😌
You good?
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I would disagree on the statement gear does not matter. Your no.1 and no.2 shots would not have come out the way they did with a modern picture perfect full auto camera (I adore no.1 and can’t figure out what you like about the mess no.2 is showing). Still very inspiring to me is harry grueyaert but my hero is Fred Herzog when it comes to color street photography.
In the pictures you identify as "lacking human presence" and as speaking to your recent attempts to move away from peopled images, I saw human presence. Not humans themselves, perhaps, but human presence nonetheless. You allude to this yourself. In an interesting juxtaposition (contradiction?) you then identify Alex Webb's 'The Suffering of Light' as your "Bible." Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't recall a single image in that book that didn't have people in it . . . where people weren't the central subjects. In your reflections, sometimes seemingly tortured, I sense profound confusion. Confusion about what you want. About what you are. About what you want, no, need to communicate, and how to go about communicating it. Borrowing from a psychoanalytic concept, 'suspended (or 'hovering') attention,' and assuming you are comfortable with your camera gear and it doesn't get in the way, and are well acquainted with the so-called image-making rules (composition), when out shooting try exercising attention removed from the learned theory and techniques (don't worry, they will guide you unconsciously), and removed from your presuppositions and expectations and goals (biases) (but, to be sure, they will reveal themselves through your body of work anyways), and allow your attention to flow freely, passively, without intent (albeit unconsciously driven and directed), and to 'free associate' (to borrow another psychoanalytic concept) and reveal connections and patterns otherwise unlikely to find expression. And there, my friend, you may find answers to questions you may not even have known you had.
That’s what I was trying to say. You don’t need someone in a photo to feel human presence.
@@ivunchow Reread. You saw the earlier draft.
@@bernardlesperance742 is it not ok to wonder how and if one should develop a diverse body of work? And then study examples, go out and practice, analyze, discuss with ones-self and others.. Isn't this ok?
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