Years ago I took a travel photography class at Looking Glass, a camera/all things photography store in Berkeley where I lived at the time. The instructor really emphasized what you are saying-print print print. Give photos to friends, put them on the wall, but by all means, put your hands on them. And so I do and have been doing for years. I’ve lived in some places-Bay Area, Austin-that have undergone rapid and drastic change. I have so many photos of things that no longer exist-piers, signs, stores, parks, buildings, etc., and people love seeing those things again. Thanks for this talk!
This old chestnut never gets old, it seems. When everything around us is changing, one thing doesn’t: photographers not printing their photos. Thanks for sharing your story!
Jeremy, I have just started watching your videos and have truly enjoyed the ones I have seen. I so agree with printing your work. It goes from being a disposable distraction to a piece of tangible art as you say. When I first started taking photos as a young man, the only way you could enjoy your work was to print it out. Not only were you able to enjoy the finished photo, but the process of actually making it in the first place. You were in a darkroom, you had the process of exposing the paper, then putting it in the developer, stop bath etc., water to rinse and hanging to dry, all to see your finished work. The process itself was all part of the experience of making art. This mostly has been lost in the digital age. There is so many things wrong with social media and the degrading of art is just one of them, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I print my work more often now and post to social media less, much less. It has brought be back to what got me so excited to take photos in the first place. Not clicks or comments, but to touch and see my work hanging on a wall. I hope this comment makes sense to you. Just know that there are a lot of us out there that agree with you and hope that this trend continues because if it doesn’t I don’t want to think about how this form of art will survive. BTW - you need more people to follow your stuff here, it’s a lot different then many of the other RUclips photography channels. Too bad you probably will need social media to do so 😮
Thanks for watching/subbing! I found myself in 2023 printing more work than posting on social media, and I see that trend continuing. I'm not anti-social media, though I think it is probably a net negative.
Totally agree Jeremy - I've taken my first tentative steps into producing zines for the very reason they became tangible and a collectible (if only for me). I am also seeking out other zines which is becoming a bit on an addiction.
I do a good amount of working from home so I need to have multiple monitors and for the past year or 2 I have had all of my photos alternate every 15 or 30 minutes as my backgrounds for each monitor. My partner will come in and just start talking about the ones that they like. Its a fun way to be critical, but not hate every photo I take. But this year I really do want to print a few photos out. Im having a hard time of picking which ones I like better though lol
Great video and good points. I totally agree. I somehow think that printing is best way to make photo meaningful. When I print some of my photos (with Canon Selphy CP-1300, great printer for small prints) and see them on paper, it just feels better. I am looking more the picture and forget all the pixel peeping or what-so-ever totally irrelevant stuff. Maybe reason is because there is no possibility to zoom and there is no any kind of backlight in photo, it just shows the image in the light where it is seen on that time when people are looking? Hard to say. Still, whatever the case, gotta love printing photos :)
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Years ago I took a travel photography class at Looking Glass, a camera/all things photography store in Berkeley where I lived at the time. The instructor really emphasized what you are saying-print print print. Give photos to friends, put them on the wall, but by all means, put your hands on them. And so I do and have been doing for years. I’ve lived in some places-Bay Area, Austin-that have undergone rapid and drastic change. I have so many photos of things that no longer exist-piers, signs, stores, parks, buildings, etc., and people love seeing those things again. Thanks for this talk!
This old chestnut never gets old, it seems. When everything around us is changing, one thing doesn’t: photographers not printing their photos. Thanks for sharing your story!
Jeremy, I have just started watching your videos and have truly enjoyed the ones I have seen. I so agree with printing your work. It goes from being a disposable distraction to a piece of tangible art as you say. When I first started taking photos as a young man, the only way you could enjoy your work was to print it out. Not only were you able to enjoy the finished photo, but the process of actually making it in the first place. You were in a darkroom, you had the process of exposing the paper, then putting it in the developer, stop bath etc., water to rinse and hanging to dry, all to see your finished work. The process itself was all part of the experience of making art. This mostly has been lost in the digital age. There is so many things wrong with social media and the degrading of art is just one of them, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I print my work more often now and post to social media less, much less. It has brought be back to what got me so excited to take photos in the first place. Not clicks or comments, but to touch and see my work hanging on a wall. I hope this comment makes sense to you. Just know that there are a lot of us out there that agree with you and hope that this trend continues because if it doesn’t I don’t want to think about how this form of art will survive. BTW - you need more people to follow your stuff here, it’s a lot different then many of the other RUclips photography channels. Too bad you probably will need social media to do so 😮
Thanks for watching/subbing! I found myself in 2023 printing more work than posting on social media, and I see that trend continuing. I'm not anti-social media, though I think it is probably a net negative.
I totally agree. When I print and frame, I feel proud of them, and I begin to see them from an objective point of view.
Totally agree Jeremy - I've taken my first tentative steps into producing zines for the very reason they became tangible and a collectible (if only for me). I am also seeking out other zines which is becoming a bit on an addiction.
Great! There's probably more interesting work happening in zines than on social media anyway. Please share your zine with us when you finish one!
I agree; a Zen idea. Slowing down, living in the moment, savoring the simplicity of the event, and detachment from the ever-present small screen.
I do a good amount of working from home so I need to have multiple monitors and for the past year or 2 I have had all of my photos alternate every 15 or 30 minutes as my backgrounds for each monitor. My partner will come in and just start talking about the ones that they like. Its a fun way to be critical, but not hate every photo I take. But this year I really do want to print a few photos out. Im having a hard time of picking which ones I like better though lol
The screen-saver idea is a good one! Thanks for that. And good luck sorting through your photos to print!
ooh I like that idea
@@NigelSwan you'll learn a lot and find appreciation for photos you might not have liked before
You're so right. This is inspiring.
At the end of the day we may live in a digital world, but we are still analogue people; I think a printed photo has more presence than a digital one.
Same. And same with books! What do you think?
Very much so,@@jeremybassetti hence why I have a house full of books
Great video and good points. I totally agree. I somehow think that printing is best way to make photo meaningful. When I print some of my photos (with Canon Selphy CP-1300, great printer for small prints) and see them on paper, it just feels better. I am looking more the picture and forget all the pixel peeping or what-so-ever totally irrelevant stuff. Maybe reason is because there is no possibility to zoom and there is no any kind of backlight in photo, it just shows the image in the light where it is seen on that time when people are looking? Hard to say. Still, whatever the case, gotta love printing photos :)
Printing is a form of narrative/meaning-making.
Good advice.
Thanks!
Totally agree. Photography has to be on paper in a certain stage anyway
If you are going to talk then talk and get rid of the background noise. I enjoyed what you had to say, and your photos!