📌What did you think of the video? Shall we have more Alec Soth here on the channel?

i love hearing him speak. he thinks about everything deeply. an interesting fellow for sure!

Soth is my favourite photographer. Very inspiring in the sense he embraces the quietness of image making in a world that is shouting.

Thank you for this video. More Alec Soth is always a good thing!

This was tremendous. Love Soth so much. Loved his presence on KZfaq during the pandemic. It was not only insightful, but fun and very open and unprecious. I love everything you are touching on here. The depth of field/ depth of feeling concept is often a point of discussion for me. As is intuition and vertical progress. I think if there is any struggle for aspiring artists in the creative environment right now it has less to do with the technology and more to do with the relationship to the work in ways you touched on beautifully here. Lovely work as always.

Great video. “Adding something of my own” is the core motive for everything I do. This resonated

Happy to see you doing a lot more contemporary work recently ☺️

I am so glad that our interests in photographers line up as it means I always enjoy these videos! Thankyou!

Excellent video.....good points and topics. It's important to build an archive (and organize it). You will be surprised after you've been shooting for over a half century (like me) what you will discover when you look back at your body of work. You will discover shots that you overlooked at the time and now jump out at you either from an historical point of view but also possibly a new artistic interpretation. You will also have new ways and tools to use on old images. When we were shooting film 50 years ago we could never have dreamed what would be possible with digital tools in the future. Same now, who knows what lies ahead in the future of photography and how it can be applied to the images you are shooting today. ✌

I connected heavily with the idea of vertical & horizontal progress. I’ve been working on a project for years now and have found myself in some sort of limbo between the two without any vocabulary to describe it. I imagine it will be super helpful towards the work to identify which spectrum I’m leaning closer towards at the time, give it the moment it deserves, and then explore into the other direction. Happy to see you back with another video 🥰 They are always an inspiration to give my work more attention. Wishing you the best!!

I really enjoyed this video because it touched a bit on how photography can express ones loneliness or aloneness. We an see in Soth's work the way he tries to connect with his subjects and the moment, its very grounding. I think sometimes as creatives when we get into a funk or a blue mood or struggle with mental health we feel we cannot create or take a good photo but what I got from this video is we can keep at it and take away something valuable form each photo or photo project, even if we abandon the project for awhile. We have to embrace the imperfections in the photo but also in ourselves and our lives.

Depth of feeling. Always. But then, that is my approach to photography from the very beginning. I am fascinated by and interested in the technical. but for me, my engagement with my subject, with who or what I am photographing, is crucial. It is the seeing and the process that make my heart soar. This was true when I barely knew what I was doing with my used 2nd generation digital camera with its dinky kit lens and is still true today when I know a little more (and keep learning) and mess up (sometimes) with my full frame mirrorless with great lenses. It is about the heart of it all, the emotional connection. Indeed, when I do portraits, I ma humbled by how people are willing to put their representation in my hands, by how they trust me to make a good portrait of them, or, as I sometimes tell them, I will not release it to the wild. But I think they can sense that I want to make them look good, complex, deeply human, if not always "pretty." But your video made me get back to thinking about where I am right now. I am sort of on hold, for several reasons that I am sorting out. And one of them is deciding what's next for my photography journey. I've won 3 awards for my photograph and have a few "fans," including among several photographers. However, my work that garners the most attention so far, my urban abstracts, are very abstract, stylized, modernistically (not a word, I know) detached yet alluring. They are almost, at times, Escher-like, sometimes like if Op Art and German Expressionism had a baby. They don't fit the current trend of storytelling, of reflexivity, of exploring the human condition or being deep and introspective. (BTW< I can do that with my portraiture & street/event photography. but they are not the ones that grab people's attentions as much, or so far, have not won awards...) THe whole depth of feeling thing drives my work, even the glossy urban abstracts, but I am trying to figure out how to promote them. And wondering what is wrong with just a set of gorgeous photos that celebrate architectural beauty and present it in a new, de-structured way. Yes, I am a bit at a loss, but as you mention in your video, this is not a bad thing, but a learning experience. A learning journey. BTW, your video made me think of Pema Chödrön's commencement speech, "Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better." The title is based on the line, "Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” from a Samuel Becket story. Deep stuff, indeed. Anyway,. As always. Thank you.

I enjoyed this presentation and would definitely like to see more of his work featured in a future video. Soth is another of the photographers that you have featured that I had not seen before. I love these videos and thank you for all of your hard work. ✌️🌹

The depth and insight in this video are so growth inducing. Thank you

4:07 - I so expected the point of focus to be on the blank canvas. But here it plays a secondary supporting role. That was unexpected for me. ... the key lesson for me personally in this video was not to get so caught up in the technical side of photography - it's about conveying an idea, more importantly. It's quite a freeing message. Thank you.

I wish we had things like this to photograph here in Europe as well.

Loved this a lot, Tatiana!

I love when you focus on photography through the lens of psychology and philosophy. Awesome work, really!,

Thank you. I love Alec Soth

Your videos are so refreshing and original, keep them coming 😊

liking the background of your speech scene!

I was waiting so much for an episode based on Alec Soth. Great job!

Wonderful video, a fresh sight over photography. On this times were so many are enchanted with AI, it's a relief hearing about and seing photos made with heart, effort and feeling... Thank you!!!!

Hi, wondered what happened to you. Good to see that you're back. Interesting video documentary you've done here on Alec Soth. I never heard of him, but his work looks good. His philosophy on creating photography from mistakes or failures. Perhaps creating work from tragedy or disaster (the coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown, George Floyd, the wildfires) can be consider inspiration for future for photographic work. I notice Soth's work is reminiscent of William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson. Personally, I don't care repetition, but that's just me. Keep up the great work.

Very informative, really enjoyed. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for this fine video and all your excellent work. 📷☕️🙂

Video is very interesting, and inspiring. I think the concept of intuition, awareness of your intuition, and allowing it to have a priority in guiding your work, is a very important idea for photographers. You did a wonderful job of "bringing in" Alec Soth more as a collaborator in the ideas and concepts of the video, rather than focusing on him and his work. With that said, I am an enthusiastic follower of Soth as a person, a scholar of photography and his work, mostly from watching his YT channel. Therefore I would be in favor of you doing a video(s) on his work, maybe picking one of his books and show/review it as he does with other photo books. Sorry for the long comment.

I had never heard of alec, nice work 🙂

Diving into Alec’s work ASAP including his YT channel and that Aperture video you referenced. Another outstanding video 🙌

Great video Tatiana, although I have heard of his name before I wasn't aware of Soth's work until now, thank you for his introduction. With much more interest now I'll have to look more into his work. 😎❤

Hi, Tatiana. Awesome video, my lady. I really enjoy looking at it. Thank you very much, Antoine.

More of Soth (&Co) please!

Well done!

KandF makes good stuff, glad they are helping u out

I love your videos and they make my time working at the computer smoother! I would like to see more videos about non western photographers (I consider also japanese artists as "western" photography). A book about history of photography was in my hand and as always it seems that only above the equator there are photographers, only with some exceptions if you are white or you have studied and worked in the northern Hemisphere!

I love his work! 🙌

ive been watching you for a min and congrats on the growth

I really enjoy your videos, and I appreciate the effort that you put into your research. Great stuff - keep it up.

Love his work. Find his images to be sobering and introspective. Moments of time captured into a still image.

Thank you for the video. 🎉

Hi Tatiana. Love your channel and appreciate many of your observations in this episode. One thing I would have liked to see here, especially given the title, is more insight into Soth’s process and work. They’re well worth a deeper dive, I think, and I hope you’ll take one soon. Good luck, and keep up the great work!

Awesome video. Please continue this direction with your videos,,, Great work

Loved the intro 🥲

I just ‘Liked’ it. 😊

It's perhaps an odd segue, but Stravinsky once said he did not so much compose "The Rite of Spring" as he was the vessel through which it passed. At least for myself, I see the "vertical progress" of being a photographer--of being an artist generally--as making of yourself the vessel though which the experience you have is to be conveyed. This involves, ironically, removing yourself, or those parts of yourself, that are the impediments inhibiting the flow of the experience from the subject through you to the viewer.

@1:34 can anyone tell me what the "American documentary tradition" is...genuinely curious. Does it have to do with form or subject matter? Is there a European style? An east-Asian style??

Hey Tatiana great video. Did you looked for the portuguese photographer Carlos Relvas? well worth it, it has an amazing story.

Humanity’s ability for accessing intuition will keep what ever Artificial Intelligence or coming General Artificial Intelligence can muster as their name implies, artificial.

If I was asked: “Why You Should Define Your Photographic Identity?” What’d I say, Tatiana? 😅

Nice shot! What a plump woman, but she doesn't look like a bloated chubby person. Nice shot!😄

Could Boris Smelov be the next photographer discussed in a video? Because I have the sense that it would be unfair to omit him from the discourse of not only Russian or Soviet photography, but also of world/global photography.

There is a point, where we all realize that we must kill our darlings, not all of them though...that would also kill Sausade.

Amazing video as always, i love everything that you do. K&F concept is a no no for me, a pit of bad experiences.

Isn't it a bit misleading to add your "Recorded with Blackmagic Cinema Pocket 6K ... etc" text (including sponsor message!) over beautiful cinematography of Soth shot by Brennan Vance for PBS - that you've only clipped and put in your own video. As far as I can see the only bit you filmed was you talking to camera?

Please please please find a different background.

Shall we have more Alec Soth? NO. There is no need to publish more low quality, meaningless, depressing photography.

wonderful insights when considering the drive to be 'original' I feel my true goal is to be true to my vision, to create an image that excites me as written long ago, 'there is nothing new under the sun'