The Power of Originality in Photography

Anybody can tell me where the intro at the beginning originally comes from?

Thanks a lot. Each show is a piece of art, makes me thinking and feeling. Deep content, clean language, brilliant narrative

In love with your edition it blows my mind💘🤯🤯🤯🤯

I do like the care you put into the animations, but also in parallel with the contain of the whole video, I guess it must be quite thoug. Congrats!

Jamie the kind of guy who doesn't do what the entire class does yet excels above everybody else and doesn't give a shit about what others think of him. Be like Jamie.

Brilliant video

Kind of like slavish adherence to an irritatingly slim slice of depth of focus.

I can agree with anyone who says music gets worse as time progresses though. We are just getting dumber as a species. We don’t need to be smart or talented in the current social set-up.

How have I never found your videos before. Love this so much.

Hey, Jamie - just discovered your channel a couple of days ago and have watched a few now. Great work! Thank you very much. :D

its the nerd photographer

Jamie that film is just fantastic, thanks for the good work

Very very interesting this point of view.

a very good point and great content

I really appreciate your channel. It is different than most. Photography is not just about tools and techniques. Good photography also needs thought and purpose.

Your videos are great :)

The sheer amount of work you put in this video is awesome! It's a piece of art! And although I agree with you that copying styles 1 to 1 is merely a poor imitation, getting inspired by what once was and implementing that with current techniques and styles and create a new style. I think that happens all the time, just look at music. Whether it's using samples of old records, using chord progressions The Beatles used, using re-issued vintage synths or that analogue tape plug-in. But dangit, I loved this video!

As Bob Dylan said, "nostalgia is death".

That old Photoshop start up screen took me back to a rose tinted time in my life that probably wasn't that good in reality.

You deserve much more for you edit skills and deep content.

I just wanted to thank you for all of your videos. I teach photography at a high school in California and I have been showing my students your videos during distance learning. They really love them and I am enjoying all of the unique insights that you share. Your videos are not only well put together, but I love the music you use and the wide variety of topics. Thank you so much. You have made a huge difference in my classes.

An excellent essay on nostalgia. Good observations by a sensitive, thoughtful artist.

Your VIDEOS ARE ART, while talking about art!
Thank you!

beautiful video. Congratulations

Love the video!! There's clearly some amazing work and thought behind! Thanks!

That Windows opening is brilliant

well tbh if you want to be different and new you need a good ass camera...

Just discovered your channel. It's very thought provoking, like V Sauce for photographers.

You are a god. Thanks for all the effort!

Good point. I only like B&W pictures when they were made in the time of B&W. I like the retro visual of new cameras, as a form of continuity, but I think is nonsense to put this piece that simulates the filme being passed to the next expose. For me, continue some elements of the past, also to make a new object more relatable, is ok. But try to repeate the past, as a full experience, is pointless, for me.

Love your insights.. I am picking up my camera again.. dead of winter.. but there has to be something to focus on. Thank you!

the video was also in 4:3 ratio which was very popular and the norm those days

Excellent video :)

Jamie, one of the things I love about your videos is they are intelligent and make me think differently and not just in relation to photography. Thank you for taking the time and effort to do these videos. At least 300,000 of us really appreciate the videos, you, and what you have to say.

Jamie... Who does your graphic production?! If it’s you (given you’re former design career) you are a genius!

Oh sweet nostalgia (Greek word: νοσταλγία (Nostalgia)): How true everything you say here. There are so many people caught in this not only in an artistic level but in a philosophical level of life it self. It makes you wander about the authenticity of everyone as oppose with the fake persona

Lovely video mate! Nostalgia is only a feeling, but damn...it's a good one! 😂

Newsflash: the 80s sucked. It was actually a time when classes turned against each other so that people with money could feel like it was ok to take and never give back.

great video!

I'm not an 80s kid or 70s kid or 60s or 50s but somehow the unique aesthetics and styles of those periods are intoxicating even if they are before my time and I love trying to capture some of that magic in a contemporary setting. Is it even considered nostalgia if I have no memory of those periods?

I'm so glad I found your channel, you have such high quality content I wouldn't have thought I could find on this platform. Thank you!

Lovely, concise little video. Very well done.

Not even a photographer but love watching your videos. Your explanations are beautiful. Thank you

So much style without substance
So much stuff without style
It's hard to recognize the real thing
It comes along once in a while

Amazing video mate! Well explained and well visualized with the vhs/retro looks 👌

Hello. Would you be able to provide links for the reference artists pages please?

It's cool that you showed that photo by Pixy Liao because the project that the photo is from ("Two Persons" I think?) was done through the local photo lab I'm a member of. The work was published by Light Work, which is the name of the lab, and I believe that the photo series was done as part of it's live-in artist program. Never seen any of the work from that laboratory be shown elsewhere, especially not on a big photography channel I watch.

Edit, now that I look, Zanele Muholi was a part of the artist live-in program in 2015 as well.

It's not always nostalgia, every generation saying it was better in their time doesn't necessarily mean there is a subjective bias, maybe things are actually getting worse by each generation.

Absolutely love your videos. Thank you!

Does our penchant for nostalgia have a positive or negative effect on our photography? Both? Neither? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.