Share Your Inspirational Videos?

Pleased to know that Tyler has a similar problem to myself:- After 5 years for one subject he still can't get it right (or would think he meant to his satisfaction) :)
 
Wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the Large Format thread, but I guess here is ok...

A video from this guy popped up in my YouTube recommendations the other day, which I watched and enjoyed, so I took a look at his channel and found the ones below. I don't shoot large format (although, if I can get the means to scan LF images, then it's an ambition for some point), but I do love the look, so watching these videos was good. The first shows the restoration of a 100-year-old 10x8 camera. The second shows him using another 10x8 camera to make street portraits. Who needs one of those lightweight Leica's, eh? :)

View: https://youtu.be/kJY0lqJFe7g


View: https://youtu.be/9Yrr4cifSHU
 
A year on. Time for one of my favourite videos that's now on YouTube (with french subbies)

Kevin Cummins' "Looking for the light through the pouring rain" was my first photography book. His photography and the music of Manchester had a significant impact on my youth. This isn't really about photography that much, but it's scattered with Cummins' work.

Contains strong language.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNAZGdGLoI
 
Cross posted from the main talk photography forum A documentary on Fay Godwin from 1986

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Fay Godwin documentary from 1986

51 minutes long with Godwin both in the field and in discussion about her work and life. There are also some comparisons made by art curators about how art (Godwin's photographs and paintings) interact with the landscape, View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJR_UJnry8s I felt it was...
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Watched a few of his videos over the last couple of evenings and find them interesting, even if they are about documentary film making rather than photography.

"Don't let your perfectionist side stop you."

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=til0HQ85inU
 
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Harlequin565 said:
Just stumbled on this channel. The Penn video was interesting, but he has other good videos too.
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I've watched a few of his videos, I'm sure he has some good stuff to say but TBH I find I tend to wander off after a few minutes
 
Now this is the chap who featured in the last episode of The Great British Photography Challenge. They were taken out to Glencoe with view cameras on a lovely Autumn day with all the beautiful colours and then shot some very uninspired black and white shots which both Rankin and Mr Cooper gushed over.....I didn't get it.
 
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Now this is the chap who featured in the last episode of The Great British Photography Challenge. They were taken out to Glencoe with view cameras on a lovely Autumn day with all the beautiful colours and then shot some very uninspired black and white shots which both Rankin and Mr Cooper gushed over.....I didn't get it.
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You're not going to like his work then :D

see - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...ish-photography-challenge.724618/post-8965823

I suspect the 4x5 thing was an attempt to inject a bit of false jeopardy (much loved of these kind of programmes) but I don't think the average viewer will understand how difficult a view camera can be and all but one of them got a well exposed shot.
 
I'm not sure if this is inspirational or not (I've not watched it yet, it's 2 hours long), but...

This is the recording from the RPS Contemporary Photography group "Challenging the status quo" discussion with Paul Hill, Douglas May, Brian Steptoe and others.

The full title if the meeting is "Celebrating the Founding and Future of the Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group and the 80th birthday of the Founding Chair, Paul Hill MBE "

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46TDp917imI
 
myotis said:
I'm not sure if this is inspirational or not (I've not watched it yet, it's 2 hours long), but...

This is the recording from the RPS Contemporary Photography group "Challenging the status quo" discussion with Paul Hill, Douglas May, Brian Steptoe and others.

The full title if the meeting is "Celebrating the Founding and Future of the Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group and the 80th birthday of the Founding Chair, Paul Hill MBE "

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46TDp917imI
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To reply to my own post. Having now watched this I can give a bit more detail.

Paul Hill is talking about the hows and whys of the RPS contemporary photography group that he, and others (e.g. Jo Spence, Colin Osman etc), set up.

Brian Steptoe gives, what seems to be a slightly out of context presentation about the background to his book "Olympic Blue" which is about the site and the people that lived there before they built the Olympics 2012 stadiums on it. The building site was surrounded by a blue fence, hence the book title.

Douglas May, discusses the differences between pictorial and contemporary photography, his transition from one to the other, his ideas on contemporary photography and some of the problems they had getting it fully accepted in the RPS.

There is an interview with Richard Brayshaw, about the photographs he submitted for his contemporary photography fellowship panel.

The pictures, but not the interview, are here https://richardbrayshaw.co.uk/thresholds-frps

There is some interesting discussion, and Tessa Mills thoughtful attempt to explain what Contemporary Photography is (at 1h 29m), and endorsed later by Paul Hill, was worth listening to.

There is a "tiny" amount of the discussion related to submitting for an RPS distinction in contemporary photography, that I don't think detracts.

I'm glad I watched it. and there were enough good bits in it to make it a worthwhile watch for me.
 
myotis said:
I'm not sure if this is inspirational or not (I've not watched it yet, it's 2 hours long), but...

This is the recording from the RPS Contemporary Photography group "Challenging the status quo" discussion with Paul Hill, Douglas May, Brian Steptoe and others.

The full title if the meeting is "Celebrating the Founding and Future of the Royal Photographic Society Contemporary Group and the 80th birthday of the Founding Chair, Paul Hill MBE "

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46TDp917imI
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I stuck it until the discussion, but I'm afraid it only reinforced my jaundiced view of the RPS. Too many shirts, suits and plums in mouths for me. Not to mention the panels, distinctions and letters after your name b*****ks they all seem to love. Apart from Paul Hill the rest were a bunch of boring farts taking it all, and themselves, far too seriously. Richard Brayshaw's photos they were gushing over were as formulaic as they come FFS.

Sorry, the whole RPS thing always makes me rant! :LOL:
 
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I stuck it until the discussion, but I'm afraid it only reinforced my jaundiced view of the RPS. Too many shirts, suits and plums in mouths for me. Not to mention the panels, distinctions and letters after your name b*****ks they all seem to love. Apart from Paul Hill the rest were a bunch of boring farts taking it all, and themselves, far too seriously. Richard Brayshaw's photos they were gushing over were as formulaic as they come FFS.

Sorry, the whole RPS thing always makes me rant! :LOL:
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I tend to just extract the bits I find interesting, and let the other bits wash over me :)

But I also find it interesting to get an insight into the RPS. I've watched a few RPS videos recently.
 
myotis said:
I tend to just extract the bits I find interesting, and let the other bits wash over me :)

But I also find it interesting to get an insight into the RPS. I've watched a few RPS videos recently.
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If I watched any more RPS vids I'd probably need treatment for hypertension!

Some time back I was chatting to a photographer and she mentioned her succesful RPS panel and I managed to restrain myself. A while later she'd had a falling out over her next step panel over the noise in her low light, documentary photos and had ditched the RPS. I didn't like to say "I told you so"!!
 
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I had a go at the video but it wasn't really for me. I am, however, a member of the RPS and I usually go to a few RPS events in a year, I did a Paul Hill workshop through the RPS so he actually considered and discussed some of my photos and his insight was spot on. He did have a favourite phrase for when he had nothing to say about a photo, he would ask "So, are you interested in ... [insert subject]".

The RPS is a broad church and as Graham says you have to take the parts you want and ignore the rest. I would never do a panel for an award though, it is not something I want and also I have heard a number of stories about the vagaries of the judging which just put me off.
 
I was introduced to this channel at the weekend and all three videos there are great.

View: https://youtu.be/2IZZyYgjSxs


View: https://youtu.be/8c4ypNl0MDE

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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY - MARC RIBOUD IN JAPAN

In episode three of SHOW & TELL, MARC RIBOUD IN JAPAN, writer and photographer Stephen Leslie looks at one of his favourite photos by the great French photog...
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I'm a bit gutted that I didn't buy his book, Sparks, when I had the chance. It was on my list but I never got around to picking a copy up.
 
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A video introducing the "Alternative History of Photography" exhibition at the Photographers gallery. The book of the exhibition was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by "History Today" and the video explains the background to the exhibition, shows some of the exhibits and has a Q&A at the end.

It's a few second over an hour long, and I felt it worthwhile staying to the end.

Like David Bate's book on Photography this exhibition has tried to bring together a much wider range of photographers and photographic practices than usually found in the mainstream of photographic history, while still including the 'big" names like Adams and Frank.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8FFdzWCgU

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myotis said:
A video introducing the "Alternative History of Photography" exhibition at the Photographers gallery. The book of the exhibition was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by "History Today" and the video explains the background to the exhibition, shows some of the exhibits and has a Q&A at the end.

It's a few second over an hour long, and I felt it worthwhile staying to the end.

Like David Bate's book on Photography this exhibition has tried to bring together a much wider range of photographers and photographic practices than usually found in the mainstream of photographic history, while still including the 'big" names like Adams and Frank.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8FFdzWCgU

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Not that it seems anyone is especially interested, but I now have the book that goes with the exhibition.

At first glance it's a little disappointing, the vast bulk of the book (223 pages of it) is "Plates with commentary" but less than half have any commentary and the majority are presented with only the date and photographers name, print title, location and medium.

There is an additional 14 pages of supporting text so maybe the plates without commentary are referred to in this text (which I haven't read yet). Some, but not many, without commentary are where a photographer has more than one picture included and there is only a commentary provided for the first one.

I was hoping for a much more detailed explanation of why a particular photographer (and photograph) had been included.
 
FishyFish said:
The exhibition for this is currently on at The Photographers Gallery in SoHo, London. I visited last week, but primarily for the Chris Killip exhibition which spanned two floors and I only had time to give the Alternate History display a brief look.
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Yes the video link I posted was introducing the exhibition.
 
Like @FishyFish I went to the Photographers Gallery whilst in London a few weeks ago and saw the exhibition as well as the Chris Killip exhibition. It was interesting enough and TBH until reading Nige's comment I hadn't joined the dots with the video you posted
 
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