Jeffery Saddoris

If you were an On Taking Pictures listener, you know how all over the place some of the conversations with Bill Wadman and me tended to get and this one is no exception. We talk a little about gear, a little about process and a little about whatever tangent we happen to feel like following. In other words, just a normal chat between friends who have literally hundreds of hours of recorded conversations behind them.

SHOW NOTES

Sound Devices MixPre - https://www.sounddevices.com/mixpre/
RØDECaster Pro - https://www.rode.com/rodecasterpro/
Apple Big Sur - https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/
Gary Yost - http://www.garyyost.com
Oculus - https://www.oculus.com/

CONNECT

Connect with Bill: Website | Instagram | Twitter

Connect with me on Instagram and Twitter @jefferysaddoris or on my website at jefferysaddoris.com. If you’ve got questions or feedback, email me at [email protected].

Music in this episode:
Five to One by Steve Poloni

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I was talking to Sean Tucker the other day and I don’t remember what prompted it, but he asked me whether I’d seen some of the recent work our friend Maarten Rots was sharing on Instagram. I told him that I had and that it was terrific. “But do you know how he’s doing it?” Sean gave me a brief description of what was going on in the pictures and after going back and looking at Maarten’s feed again, I realized because his work flows together so beautifully, the “how” of the more recent pictures didn’t raise any sort of flag. It just didn’t register, so I reached out to Maarten to ask him about it and when he sent me a few behind the scenes shots of his setup, the photos took on a different meaning and I knew there had to be an interesting story about how he got there.

CONNECT

You can find Maarten on Instagram @maartenrots or on his website at maartenrots.nl.

If you have questions, feedback on the show, or an idea for something you'd like us to talk about, I’d love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected] or connect with me on Instagram @jefferysaddoris.

Music in this episode: Take Me Higher (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

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There are only a handful of photographers whose work is instantly recognizable and fewer still who have become a genre unto themselves. I was first introduced to the pictures of Gregory Crewdson through a body of work called
Beneath the Roses. I felt instantly connected to that world he so meticulously crafted and I’ve been a huge admirer of his work ever since.

In 2016, I had the opportunity to sit down with Gregory for a conversation about his body of work called
Cathedral of the Pines. It was a terrific experience for me, not just because Gregory is one of my favorite photographers, but because it provided a glimpse behind the curtain to a photographic world that I find both moving and familiar. In 2018, Gregory began making photographs for his newest body of work.
An Eclipse of Moths continues his exploration of themes like brokenness and isolation as well as a profound connection to light and the encroachment of the natural world. To some that world may seem bleak, especially on first glance — but a deeper look will reveal a narrative that is hopeful and rich with possibility.

As we sat down to talk about 
An Eclipse of Moths
, I began by asking him about the geography he revisits again and again and whether his pictures could be made anywhere else or is the place he now calls home a necessary part of his expression as an artist.

LINKS
An Eclipse of Moths
(with music by Jeff Tweedy) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYhGYZCc_hk
An Eclipse of Moths
(Aperture book) - https://aperture.org/books/gregory-crewdson-an-eclipse-of-moths/
Process Driven 05: Gregory Crewdson - https://jefferysaddoris.com/everything/processdriven-05/
CNN Arts Feature - https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gregory-crewdson-photography-eclipse-of-moths/index.html

IMAGE DETAILS
GREGORY CREWDSON
Funerary Back Lot, 
2018 - 2019
Digital Pigment Print
56 1/4 x 94 7/8 inches / 142.9 x 241 cm (unframed)
Edition of 4, with 2 APs
© Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian

CONNECT WITH GREGORY
Website: https://gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/crewdsonstudio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crewdsonstudio/

MUSIC
Please Listen Carefully
(Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

A few months ago I was out on a morning walk with Adrianne and got a call from a familiar voice. Since then we’ve spoken a few times and thought why not roll tape on one and see where it goes. Today seemed as good a day as any to do just that. Here’s a brand new conversation between me and Bill Wadman.

SHOW NOTES

Beetlejuice - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/
Schitt's Creek - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3526078/
Ted Lasso - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/
Films to be Buried With - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/films-to-be-buried-with-with-brett-goldstein/id1408585620
Hackers - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen - https://amzn.to/2GpqCK2
Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn - https://bit.ly/3kVmnop
Obey Giant - https://obeygiant.com/
Rocky 4 Training Montage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9FyTiq3SA
Burt Young - https://burtyoungofficial.com/

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Music in this episode:
Five to One by Steve Poloni

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Episode six. Reflections on the life of Eddie Van Halen and three ways our paths crossed. Patrick Shipstad shares some stories from his former life in the music business and Adrianne calls in with some thoughts and observations around what motivates and energizes us to create and how tweaking our workflow can improve our results.

SHOW NOTES

Jacob Collier - There are a ton of great links out there shining a light on Jacob's brilliance, but these two are good places to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRqI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLCk...
Martini Ranch - Reach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkz0L...
Attention! The Power of Simple Decisions in a Distracted World by Rob Hatch - https://amz.run/3ghO

Music in this episode:
Chunky Monkey by Shtriker Big Band
Good by Above Envy
On the Way by Ian Post

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If you’re listening to this show, or any of my shows really, chances are you are a maker of some sort. And if you are, I bet on at least a few occasions over the past several months, you’ve had one of those days. The days where at best it’s hard to stay focused on the making and at worst you’re asking yourself why the fuck you should even get out of bed. And you know what? Either way, it’s okay. I know that when I’m in that place it’s really hard to hear it let alone believe it, but I’m gonna say it again, so listen closely. It’s okay. It’s okay that you haven’t created your magnum opus in the midst of a global pandemic. It’s okay that the myriad of natural and man-made dumpster fires burning around the world are pulling your focus and attention away from taking pictures or making paintings or writing that novel. It’s okay.

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SHOW NOTES

On Taking Pictures 43: Artistic Monkhood - https://5by5.tv/otp/43
SADDORIS LIVE - https://youtube.com/jefferysaddoris
Process Driven 25: Ondřej Vachek - https://jefferysaddoris.com/everything/processdriven-25/
Fleetwood Mac: Rumors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumours_(album)
Jackson Pollock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock
Vivian Maier - http://www.vivianmaier.com/

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Music in this episode: The Wrong Way (Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

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In this episode, I start things off with a couple stories about my various connections to Eddie Van Halen, which started back when I was a kid and continued through college and into an unexpected job in Hollywood. My friend Patrick (http://www.patrickshipstad.com/) calls in to talk about how his work as a portrait photographer has changed under quarantine. He also shares some stories about his friend Taylor Negron, who he first met on the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Matt from Denver calls in to talk about process versus results in his own creative practice and how a career change has forced him to make some decisions about how and where creativity fits into his life.

Music in this episode:
Bored by Jahzzar (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Effects of Elevation by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0)

Thank you to everyone who called in. I appreciate your time and energy very much. Let's do it again next week! Let me know what you think in the comments or connect with me using the links below.

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In this episode, we're talking about the importance of backing up your work, and some of the ways what we do as creative professionals has changed during lockdown. 

SHOW NOTES

Digging Deep with Robert Plant - https://lnk.to/RPDiggingDeepPodcast
The Honeydrippers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeydrippers
PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/photowork-with-sasha-wolf/id1523742299
Richard Boutwell - http://www.richardboutwell.com/
Scully & Osterman Studio - http://www.collodion.org/
Fred Levy (The Black Dogs Project) - https://www.fredlevyart.com/index/G00007N.NR0KFZ5I/thumbs
Process Driven 25: Ondřej Vachek - https://jefferysaddoris.com/everything/processdriven-25/

Music in this episode:
Low Force by Daniel Birch (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hold On by Vienna Ditto (CC BY 4.0)
Time by Pedro Santiago (CC BY 4.0)
Realize by Ian Sutherland (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Waveshift by Gorowski (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Thank you to everyone who called in. I appreciate your time and energy very much. Let me know what you think in the comments or connect with me using the links below.

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I don’t remember how it came up but I was talking to Sean Tucker a while back and we ended up talking about different photographers that we had found recently and he asked me whether I’d seen the work of Maria Lax. Maria is a Finnish photographer based in London who had published a book called Some Kind of Heavenly Fire. Honestly the title alone was enough to pique my interest but what I found beyond it was a fantastic set of images that were inspired by a book her grandfather wrote documenting a series of encounters with UFOs by the locals of the small Finnish town where she grew up. I’ve always had a fascination with UFOs so I was interested straight away and the work beautifully straddles the line between reality and possibility. Maria takes a little X-Files, a bit of Twin Peaks, and maybe even a dash of Todd Hido and turns it into something uniquely her own —and that combination of style and vision is there in both her personal and her commercial work, which is no easy feat.

I’d like to thank Tom Booth Woodger at Setanta Books for not only arranging an introduction to Maria but also for providing me a copy of her wonderful book 
Some Kind of Heavenly Fire.

 LINKS
Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
Setanta Books

CONNECT WITH MARIA
Website: https://www.maria-lax.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maria_lax_ 

MUSIC
Please Listen Carefully
(Jahzzar) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The third episode of my livestream call-in show. As I try to solidify the direction of a some new projects (including this one), a couple of terrific books are really helping me to think about where those "aha!" moments come from and how creativity works.

SHOW NOTES

Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman http://bit.ly/OrganizingGeniusAbeBooks
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson http://bit.ly/GoodIdeasAbeBooks
Brian Eno On Genius, And “Scenius” https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/07/09/brian-eno-on-genius-and-scenius/
Austin Kleon - Further notes on scenius https://austinkleon.com/2017/05/12/scenius/

**The book links above are not affiliate links and I don't make anything from them. I'm directing you to Abe Books, rather than Amazon, because it gives you the opportunity to help smaller booksellers and get great deals on new and used books. I use them myself and can't recommend them enough.

Thank you to everyone who called in. I appreciate your time and energy very much.

If you'd like to listen and call in live, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Music in this episode:
Urban Slanging by Paolo Pavan (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
No Control by Jahzzar (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Nonconceptual by Drake Stafford (CC BY 4.0)

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