My wish: an IG setting allowing one to filter out videos, animations, and posts with sound (especially those sound clips that sound like they were lifted from old compilations titled "Music for Relaxation", which could be found in my parent's record library.) I enjoy most savoring other talented photographers' stories told within the constraints of a static, silent image. But I did not grow up with video, so I am part of a vanishing minority.
Omg, I have two favorite living photographers and they are YOU and Soth! I've loved his photography since seeing one of his pieces from his Sleeping By the Mississippi Exhibit in some traveling show years ago. The photo is "Patrick, Palm Sunday - Baton Rouge" that you can see in this image from Soth's site - 2nd from the right. He used to have a pretty good newsletter called the LIttle Brown Mushroom as well. Maybe I will have to get on TikTok hahah!
should look up those old articles on the terribleness of Instagram. I wish more photographers were on TikTok. It sucks you in quickly (fun but addicting) and is a great place to show BTS content and engage in a different way. There is a strong community of people in their 30s 40s and 50s on there too. A couple photog accounts that are very active are: @yagazieemezi and @acacia.johnson.
Hi Dina. Always a pleasure reading your blog. I haven't gotten down that rabbit hole myself. Never enjoyed the Instagram algorithm, neither its identity crisis in the last half year. In your piece you mention TikTok as a possible next evolution step for photography (after Instagram). I wonder if the comparison between what Instagram became for photography then, and what TikTok has become for Instagram now, extrapolates between TikTok and photography tomorrow. I mean: I'm pretty sure TikTok is a new step for Social Media. A new way to communicate, create engagement, create consumers of original weird content and steal the main internet's currency: attention. But are these channels (that no doubt can be used and explored by photographers) either the doomsday or the salvation of photography? Regardless of the answer, I'm sure exploring our own comforts and artistic limits is (mostly) always worth the jump, so I wish you the best of luck with your new enterprise.
Thank you Ricardo! Photography is so young compared to other art forms, it's still in continuous flux. People are quick to think of every change as 'death of photography" but its potential to change form feels more like evolution of the medium to me. I am bracing myself for that first TikTok post, this is coming much harder than any other social media endeavor in the past.
I enjoyed this issue. I wrote this down to share on the next issue of my newsletter: "The power of an image to tell a story is only propelled by motion and music." - it came as an inspiration of reading you.
Just another photographer trying not to sound like he's stuck in the past here. Glad you brought up Soth though, because he is one that should totally not be good at all the new media formats but he's on all of them. He has a YouTube video series which is basically University quality coursework. Highly recommend.
My wish: an IG setting allowing one to filter out videos, animations, and posts with sound (especially those sound clips that sound like they were lifted from old compilations titled "Music for Relaxation", which could be found in my parent's record library.) I enjoy most savoring other talented photographers' stories told within the constraints of a static, silent image. But I did not grow up with video, so I am part of a vanishing minority.
Thanks for the post, Dina. Always enjoyable.
Neither did I, I found videos on my feed very annoying. It is taking some effort to adopt.
Something tells me you are going to flourish in whatever forum you choose to explore. Keep on rocking
Omg, I have two favorite living photographers and they are YOU and Soth! I've loved his photography since seeing one of his pieces from his Sleeping By the Mississippi Exhibit in some traveling show years ago. The photo is "Patrick, Palm Sunday - Baton Rouge" that you can see in this image from Soth's site - 2nd from the right. He used to have a pretty good newsletter called the LIttle Brown Mushroom as well. Maybe I will have to get on TikTok hahah!
https://alecsoth.com/photography/projects/sleeping-by-the-mississippi - the link to the pic
Thank you!
should look up those old articles on the terribleness of Instagram. I wish more photographers were on TikTok. It sucks you in quickly (fun but addicting) and is a great place to show BTS content and engage in a different way. There is a strong community of people in their 30s 40s and 50s on there too. A couple photog accounts that are very active are: @yagazieemezi and @acacia.johnson.
Thank you, will check them out.
Hi Dina. Always a pleasure reading your blog. I haven't gotten down that rabbit hole myself. Never enjoyed the Instagram algorithm, neither its identity crisis in the last half year. In your piece you mention TikTok as a possible next evolution step for photography (after Instagram). I wonder if the comparison between what Instagram became for photography then, and what TikTok has become for Instagram now, extrapolates between TikTok and photography tomorrow. I mean: I'm pretty sure TikTok is a new step for Social Media. A new way to communicate, create engagement, create consumers of original weird content and steal the main internet's currency: attention. But are these channels (that no doubt can be used and explored by photographers) either the doomsday or the salvation of photography? Regardless of the answer, I'm sure exploring our own comforts and artistic limits is (mostly) always worth the jump, so I wish you the best of luck with your new enterprise.
Thank you Ricardo! Photography is so young compared to other art forms, it's still in continuous flux. People are quick to think of every change as 'death of photography" but its potential to change form feels more like evolution of the medium to me. I am bracing myself for that first TikTok post, this is coming much harder than any other social media endeavor in the past.
Love this. Thank you! Can’t wait to see what you do in this space.
Thank you!
I enjoyed this issue. I wrote this down to share on the next issue of my newsletter: "The power of an image to tell a story is only propelled by motion and music." - it came as an inspiration of reading you.
I'd love to read that.
appreciate your sound perspective.
Thank you David.
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Just another photographer trying not to sound like he's stuck in the past here. Glad you brought up Soth though, because he is one that should totally not be good at all the new media formats but he's on all of them. He has a YouTube video series which is basically University quality coursework. Highly recommend.
Wonderful post, thank you, and best of luck! Excited to see what you create!
Thank you!