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.
♫ Main Video Essay Music Score by Jamie Windsor (me) ♫
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@LucasPreti 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mariakravets6747 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to read it. 🙌

@Apprendre-Photo 3 жыл бұрын

Same here ! That sounds extremely interesting ! :D

@karlitoxss 3 жыл бұрын

Can we see it?

@mateenmissaghi 3 жыл бұрын

send us a link!! would love to read that

@reisatsuki5891 3 жыл бұрын

Woah man that's pretty rad. Can we read it?

@Luke..luke..luke.. 3 жыл бұрын

This is the sort of content I have been waiting for. I bloody love these types of videos Jamie. Bloody good stuff ♥️

@tomdivasion7724 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. So good

@alexmetcalfe4668 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@nithinravi4401 3 жыл бұрын

True ❤️👍

@smithjones143 2 жыл бұрын

I love it but I don’t know why.

@eighteenfiftynine 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@duncandavies1966 3 жыл бұрын

It's a different feeling for everyone I guess. Large empty urban spaces/buildings definitely creep me out.

@keltonfloyd 3 жыл бұрын

@@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).

@Ivan-xg1zo 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sharlacourtenay1470 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@colorgradingcentral 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@bubblegumm1361 3 жыл бұрын

I will not see an empty room in the same way, ever again...

@alicewyan 3 жыл бұрын

It won't look at you the same way either

@TubeThings 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ReclusiveEagle 3 жыл бұрын

The feeling of someone being there when you should be alone is the worst feeling

@manuelg1964 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jofreund 3 жыл бұрын

I practically did the same, I was especially drawn to the red/white tape. Grüße aus Darmstadt

@sh00t01 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@FutureChaosTV 2 жыл бұрын

Use subtitles and Google Translate?

@sh00t01 2 жыл бұрын

@@FutureChaosTV not always available. Thank you anyway. 😉

@mr.purple7816 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@samstory5591 3 жыл бұрын

LOVE the 4:3 format

@slydrakee2631 3 жыл бұрын

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....

@FranzFridl 3 жыл бұрын

A stalker, it's eerie

@MadsPeterIversen 3 жыл бұрын

This was such a fantastic presentation! Deserves SO many more views :)

@Aaron_Noia Жыл бұрын

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.

@5disguised 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@benjaminthorpe7990 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh my favourite - Windsor University

@DEADLINETV 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@massimoconcimedia612 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@vagabundian5457 3 жыл бұрын

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!!

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@gusroams7320 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Visions_in_Toyko 3 жыл бұрын

Jamie is awesome for going deep in his content. Probably my favourite KZfaq photography content creator. Every episode is a journey

@tackywon5700 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nottodayisay 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@RhysticStudies 3 жыл бұрын

to me, the beauty and poignancy of liminal spaces and their corresponding blogs, photo albums, videos, essays, is the stripped-down and unartistic quality of the aesthetic. Hido's work, in contrast, is very intentional, surgical, composed, full of light manipulation and balancing. it does not feel truly liminal or unnerving, because it emerges within the safety of the editing room. consider, in contrast, the totally cynical and stripped-down aesthetic of a security camera staring at a staircase in a high school. the image produced is functional. its subject is the human insofar as the human can be monitored and analyzed as data, as information. this is the tonal difference between the disturbing images that come out of thinking and capturing liminal spaces in their raw form and what I see in Hido's highly manipulated and cerebral photographs, which only hint at that feeling.

@catmonkey6826 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Jamie, love this . I always feel inspired when I watch your films.

@martinlawrence8427 3 жыл бұрын

Another brilliant, thought provoking film Jamie...you’re a natural educator!

@sampledude8846 Жыл бұрын

Jamie, your channel is the very definition of great content. A perfect balance between aesthetics and information.

@joemntz 3 жыл бұрын

Great video again! Thanks Jamie

@ablueslenz 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that KZfaq doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.

@Lifeonbooks 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of your best videos yet. Absolutely love it.

@korysmouse3800 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, so well done. Really nice work Jamie!

@julianheritage6436 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video, thanks Jamie

@AlChered 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your work, Jamie.

@00bigben00 3 жыл бұрын

Paused this so many times throughout to really think about the points being made! Some perfect analogies! Great video as ever!

@charlesbelindevregille7465 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic review. Thank you Jamie!

@teocrawford 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this essay Jamie!

@philduch 3 жыл бұрын

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

@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel 3 жыл бұрын

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. 😅

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrLehtinen 3 жыл бұрын

Yet another awesome video. Thanks ❤️

@fraserhavenhand3868 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video Jamie, always worth the wait.

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@GreenhornPhototaker 3 жыл бұрын

Truly incredible video Jamie, thank you

@georgekaragiannakis1019 3 жыл бұрын

Love those videos you make about the philosophy of photography Jamie. Thank you for the great content.

@jasonandrews7355 3 жыл бұрын

I just want to say that I appreciate you still making this kind of content, Jamie. Tips videos, photography hacks videos, etc, will perform much better, and they have their place, but I really appreciate that you produce videos about the softer points of the trade. Much love from Canada.

@blue_ranger 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Doomsdayexe 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant content, your videos are always such a joy to watch - very thankful!

@Gordongreenhorn 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video Jamie! Really enjoy being introduced to new photographers and their work.

@gerardoguaran6356 3 жыл бұрын

I hate flattering people, but this time I have to say that your videos are truly masterpieces. I appreciate your work.

@candelariahein7190 Жыл бұрын

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.

@2curlicue4u 3 жыл бұрын

The amount of time and effort you put into your videos always amazes me man, you're genuinely one of my favourite people on this here platform. Such a creative way to mask and this aspect ratio is perfect for referencing stuff like films and pictures

@jamiewindsor 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@davehandelman2832 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, Jamie!!

@renemens24 3 жыл бұрын

another great video. Probably watch it again, and again.. Thanks Jamie!

@thatomotopi6550 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing these photos somehow makes me understand photography a lot more

@alexshabotenko7228 2 жыл бұрын

Good to have you back, Jamie! Looking forward for more content from you, it's always unusual and very educating, thank you!

@urwholefamilydied Жыл бұрын

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.

@damien_writer 3 жыл бұрын

That was fascinating Jamie, thanks for sharing! Really enjoyed it.

@richielem6413 3 жыл бұрын

Please keep on doing this kind of videos, great great work ! Many thanks

@pedrovergara7594 3 жыл бұрын

Jamie, you are undoubtedly my favourite photography content producer here in KZfaq. Great quality, and the most interesting topics Keep up the good work!

@VictorReynolds 4 ай бұрын

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.

@tinctanc 3 жыл бұрын

thank you Jamie! I enjoyed this very much! Very inspiring

@ADrowning Жыл бұрын

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.

@jimdeblock 3 жыл бұрын

This is the type of stuff youtubers need to put out. More of these in depth videos James. Keep it up

@ObservationMovies 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jamie. Another extraordinary deep dive behind the pixels.

@ikonographics 3 жыл бұрын

I got this feeling when photographing Athens in lockdown in March.

@rhodriedwards5884 3 жыл бұрын

These haiku slices of perception and visual inventiveness are such a treat when posted.. You deserve a much wider audience. Thank you.

@BarryPaffey 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jamie, your videos are beautiful!

@bobrosberg55 3 жыл бұрын

Quite simply; love your your creative, thought provoking videos. Thank you.

@ozdawizz 3 жыл бұрын

I love how you inspire others to ask questions. You leave people with more questions, but necessary ones. There was a time when I was thinking "I want to be a photographer", it evolved to "How can I be a better photographer", but this led me to a path of equipping myself with more equipment that I had time (I am doing it as a hobby) and ability to facilitate. I couldn't find myself, didn't know what kind of photography I want to do, many pictures I have taken, felt good technically but I am tainted with all that notion to satisfy people over internet and constant question "what people would find attractive?". I forgot in this chase for "better" thinking about viewer, what is actually better for me. Watching you simply reminded me, that there are no universal answers, there are only interpretations and I should focus on how I want to show "my world". Thanks for helping me to look at these from different perspective, where I can at least try to find something for myself, not something others expects me to be as photographer.

@Gadysz 3 жыл бұрын

Just got Tod's early works and now a video from the best photography yt creator. Feeling blessed

@TheJust022 3 жыл бұрын

This gives me so much inspiration! Thank you for this

@erickalbarracin2676 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this review of Hido's work. Nicely done Jamie!

@Silkroadgermany2 3 жыл бұрын

This was beautiful and gave me insight into new art works - thank you Jamie!

@bildwerck 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, thank you!

@lorenzobezzetto5727 3 жыл бұрын

Blew my mind, your content is always so great

@ivanstevens 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved this video and thanks so much for bringing Todd’s work to my attention. It brought past buildings and places in my past which resonated with me. Love this sort of content. Thanks 😊

@WS-bk7uu 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos Jamie! KZfaq 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.

@mauricioledon4498 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant content always!

@ReimannPembroke 3 жыл бұрын

What a great analysis! Awesome video! Keep doing these!

@keltonfloyd 3 жыл бұрын

I always learn so much from your videos. Thank you very much.

@wookiewaw 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the content you upload. It is always polished both in terms of content and visuals.

@efferoconsultingabprojects3500 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for opening my eyes Jamie! I'm feeling inspiration coming back again.

@MaraldBes 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jamie, for you are the art teacher that shows me beautiful and interesting work from so diverse artists and explain their work, so that I can appreciate and learn from it.

@Eric1396 3 жыл бұрын

Once again, great video, very well narrated and explained.

@richardsimms251 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Truly wonderful !

@Naqvioski Жыл бұрын

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.

@ipadaccount5796 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Thanks.

@karlneilson1316 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you for your insight.

@grahamjones2759 3 жыл бұрын

Thought provoking. Perfect. Thanks.

@jem4661 3 жыл бұрын

I love how you express your feelings into words and relate it one's life ❤️ I always watch your videos and i love it! 🙂

@Ratfish09 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video Jamie. Really really enjoyed the examples and your interpretation!

@sarkarpappu 3 жыл бұрын

Always a special feeling to watch your videos. You are different and so is your work. Keep creating these great content. Thank you.

@clarhettcoalfield3616 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@-premula 3 жыл бұрын

Great content! I've learned something new today. Thank you.

@RiccardoProta 3 жыл бұрын

What an amazing journey you gifted us, Jamie

@ahoyhere8113 2 жыл бұрын

loved this. his work (and liminal spaces in general) feel so peaceful to me.

@sTekSOo 3 жыл бұрын

Another amazing video, Jamie! No other KZfaqr gets me as excited about a new video - thanks :)

@timma8221 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent one! Looking forward to more!

@spi-fi_media 3 жыл бұрын

You're my favourite KZfaq-Artist. Thanks for continuing to make these!

@expresscisco7880 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thank you Jamie!

@UlyssesAokiPhoto 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jamie, I knew of Todd Hido but never dove deep into his work. This was the gateway for me, and I thank you for crafting this great video.

@dobriradev2967 3 жыл бұрын

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