# Photography and Haiku

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- **Канал:** The Art of Photography
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtzBUYbJ3o
- **Дата:** 01.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 14:29
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/49110

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2026 Online Zine workshops :: https://www.tedforbes.com/photozines-2026


Be sure to check out the work shared in this video and support the community!

Steve Choi - Meet Me in Los Angeles
https://www.instagram.com/stevechoiphotoart/ 

Yves Lobet - En Vase Clos (In a Closed System)
A collaboration with poet Carmelina Carracillo
https://lobet.eu/WP/en-vase-clos/ 

Jon Wiest - Shots from a Shoal Lake Shack and Urban Nature (volumes 1 & 2 from the “Explorations of Manitoba” photo zine series)
https://www.jonsphotoblog.ca/zines and https://www.instagram.com/wiest.jon 

Brian O’Hanlon - The Diamond
https://www.brianohanlonphotography.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/DTz7Yu-DVC7/


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### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

This video is brought to you by Squarespace. Welcome back everybody. It is time once again to look at some of your work that has been submitted. This is an awesome lineup today. I'm super excited. Before we get rolling though, I do want to mention many of you know that I teach zine workshops and these are done online and it's a great place if you have a project that you're working on or if you want to get into the whole idea of sequencing spreads and how to put together a book or zine of your own. This could be a really good choice. These last for a month. We meet once a week and we meet on Zoom. The third week we actually break into small groups and those are probably the most interesting for me at least and I think a lot of people get a lot out of it because you'll get feedback from me and also from your peers. It's a really interesting time to creatively brainstorm and lots of good ideas come with these. So, if you guys are interested, I've got two coming up this year. We're going to do one in June and September. I will put all the details at the link in the description or you can go to tedforbes. com and find the info there. Without further ado, let's get to some of your mail. All right, so first up is this wonderful book. This is called Meet Me in Los Angeles. This comes to us from Steve Choy. He also enclosed a handwritten note and I want to note before we get into this that what you're seeing is a handmade book. This is really cool and I absolutely love these as you guys know. Anyway, I'm going to share a little bit of his note, show you the book. He writes, "Hello Mr. Forbes, I wanted to share a copy of my first handmade book, Meet Me in Los Angeles. I have only been taking photographs for a relatively short period of time. I recently discovered the unique form of photo books and zines and have found the genre to be a powerful medium of communication. As to the project Genesis, Los Angeles has a special meaning for me. It is where I spent some of my early informative years. I recently moved back to the greater LA area after living abroad for a while. I suppose this could partially explain the images that I found in these pages. I think Los Angeles could be described as a rich metaphor for the complex intersections we encounter as many cultural traditions, its natural beauty, and its urban/suburban landscapes shaped by these intersections. I believe these are some of the reasons why I am drawn to Los Angeles and its impulses. I hope these images communicate a sense of this appreciation. Thank you for all you do. Sincerely, Steve. " This is all written on a little postcard with a shot he took. Steve, this is excellent. I really love this book. I love the fact that it's handmade and it's something special to you. I think that combination makes it something that's extra special. So, you know, what's interesting too is the binding that you've done on here, which is because you did it yourself, you're able to kind of customize this. And so, everything kind of lays flat without being a lay flat and most of you who have followed these videos know that I am not a big fan of the lay flat lay flat medium. This is really well done and it's a nice way around that and this gives you an option that you wouldn't get from a lot of commercial printers. Uh it looks like you probably had your images done commercially but then assembled it later and I think this is really well done, man. I love the images. I love the idea of Los Angeles as your point of origin here and I think this does it really nicely and I love the fact that even though you're new at this that you've discovered the power in doing sequencing and doing a book and I think you succeeded in here. So, awesome job, my man. Thank you for sharing. So, next up is this book. This is from Yves Lebay. This is called In Vos Clos. What I love about this, this is not handmade but is done on uncoated paper and it's done on really nice paper and it definitely gives you that tactile kind of human touch to it. Very nice. I will share you a little of his letter, which reads, "Dear Ted, this is not a photo zine. It's not a photo book either. This is a book of haishas. My collaboration with Carmelina, the writer of the haikus, started with the cancellation of a photo class I was expecting to give for our municipality in March of 2020. Carmelina insisted to have a training to learn how to better handle her camera, so we met several times to discuss photography. After a few exchanges around the pictures of mine I was using to support these, Carmelina told me that she found the images very close in spirit to the haikus she was writing. From there we decided to rapidly give it a shot at creating haishas together and why not for a book. For about a year we created texts and images walking around our retrospective villages. With lockdowns I rediscovered the light in my home. We shared and combined our production by email, Facebook, and phone. Early 2021 we thought we had enough material to start the creation of a book. Final selection and fine-tuning of the photographs, the texts, and their combinations. Building the story, the layout of the book, search for an editor and in May 2025 In Vos Clos was born. " He also goes on to mention the paper, which is interesting and I don't know if you can pick this up on the video or not. Uh it is very textured. It is uncoated and he says in here, "The paper used for this book is clearly not ideal to print photographs. " I might beg to differ with you because it looks pretty good. "Some fine details are lost and the contrast could be higher. I get it but I chose to like it because the texture softness create a feeling of intimacy that help reflect and mediate on the text, images, and their connections, the goal of this book. " Yves, this is fantastic. I love the paper selection and here's the deal. This is something that is kind of a concern for all of us photographers as we move into print. As many people know, cameras are capable of crazy levels of

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dynamic range that we have today. You know, if you consider Ansel Adams and the 10 stops, well today we've got cameras that'll go up to 12, 14, and sometimes a little bit higher. And so, when you're reducing that onto the printed page, you're looking at paper giving you only about eight stops of dynamic range. So, it's a considerable reduction. You're working on uncoated paper, which is going to give you even less. So, it does affect your contrast. Now, you know this work inside out. You've looked at it over and over again. When I look at these, I think they are gorgeous. I think this is really well done and I'm not just saying that. I would tell you if there was a problem. Uh but this came out really good. I love the idea of this project and collaborating with somebody who's a writer, who's going to write haikus and then you take it and you put it into this medium. And I know you said it wasn't a zine and it's not a photo book and I agree with you on both those things. Um one thing you might consider doing on something like this is look for opportunities where you could show this body of work as an exhibition because I think the body of work is actually transcending the medium of the book. I think it works well in the book. Your paper choice I think is excellent. Um and it comes together quite nicely. Uh and so, I really appreciate you sending this. I hope that you're happy with the outcome and I'm going to say this is the best compliment I can give anybody. I kind of want to see more of this. I want to see another project. something that takes it in a new direction. So, man, kudos to you and to uh Carmelina. This is very well done and congratulations to you both. So, thank you for sending. You should be very proud of this. I've got a couple more I want to show you. I've got some alumni work from my zine class, which I'm really excited to share with you and I also have the diamond. 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So, I'm going to share you a little of his note where he writes, "Dear Ted, I've been watching your channel for a long time and ever since I rekindled my love of photography a few years back. Those embers had been slowly burning since I was a teen in the '70s but the high price of silver, college, and cannabis vied for the dominance back then. That combined with having the my excellent Pentax K1000 stolen, I let go of photography for a good long while. A road trip in 2017 brought those embers roaring back to life. As a now former software developer, I don't think I'm a natural artist. As a photographer, I'm more of a documentarian. So, your videos on composition and later on the amazing work presented in mail time have been invaluable to me. So much that I jumped at the chance to take your first zine course. I learned so much from that course, it's difficult to quantify. Many of the concepts and ideas you expressed were completely new and epiphanies to

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me. I can only hope that these do some justice to your excellent teaching. Thank you for all that you do for the photography community. Sincerely, John. John, these came out great and I'm really excited to see that you did a second one. This first one I remember very well from when we did small groups in class and I remember a lot of the issues that we were talking through and a lot of the things with spreads. You did an excellent job on here. Um your work is really interesting. You do a lot of series of landscape and a lot of things that don't have dominant subjects or portraits or street photography or action or things. They're very serene and they're very uh they're very open and very natural and I think you've assembled these in a really wonderful way. I think the color came out great on here. You've got a really wonderful sense of atmosphere on these. Uh so man, kudos to you. I absolutely love how this came out and I hope that you're really happy with it, too. I'm also excited to see you go a different direction on this one. What I love that you've done, even though you don't consider yourself an artist on here, this is something that artists even have a hard time with is that you didn't do part two of the same thing. With this second zine, you've gone into new territory and I think that's really important a hard thing to do for a lot of people. I think the tendency is to want to, if you had some success or you feel good about something, is want to repeat it and do it again. And so, I really appreciate the fact that you didn't. I love this panorama. This is so amazing. You've got a sense of mystery with the roof line up here. This is really cool. First time I saw this, I'm like, is that a ship or something? Cuz the angle kind of throws you off. John, awesome work. I hope you're happy with these and I really appreciate you sending them over and sharing and I hope to work with you again, man. This was awesome. Okay, so next up, we've got the diamond. This comes to us from Brian O'Hanlon, who is a UK-based photographer. Uh he has a note in here, which I'm going to actually read you part of the book cuz I think it'll make more sense to the story here and then we'll come back to some of his bio. But anyway, in the diamond, it reads, "There's a certain beautiful irony that diamonds and coal are made from the same element, carbon. Simply put, both are created under immense pressure, heat, and time. But what separates them is the additional forces and pressure that it takes for the atoms within a diamond, as they are squeezed further and begin to bond together. The evolution of 47 Stony Street has also been shaped by the external pressures of society, government, technology, a global pandemic, austerity, and time. It has taken over 200 years for this building to bond together in its community into a rare jewel amongst the now buried coal seams that run deep below its foundations. It continues to sparkle and offer its patrons a glimmer of what it was a simpler time for the most interactive human connection. So, back to his letter. This is a project that Brian chose to do, which spanned about 13 months. He committed for a full year with it. And uh I think this is really cool and I think this came out really awesome, too. And I also got a uh let's see, I'll show you this. I am now a card-carrying diamond member. And he also sent me a menu with many of their rock-themed dishes that are on here. Brian, this is a really cool project. So, Brian is a professional photographer who wanted to do this as a side project. One of the things that I will read you in his note, because this actually is important to our conversation here. "The first few months seemed to be easy and exciting, exploring the venue, its patrons, and the bands that played there. But 6 months in, I was soon aware of the huge effort that it took to continue to visit, even though I thought I'd covered pretty much everything. " And I Brian, I think this says it all. When you commit to a project like this, it is interesting because you get kind of started off on a high note and I'm sure you know all this from doing this book, which came out awesome, by the way. But I want to mention this for everybody else's benefit here, too. When you take on a long-term project like that, you usually have a lot of energy going into it. I've done this, too. And then you get enough to where you collected some photographs. But when you've given yourself a time that is not tight, it's actually 12 months in this case, you end up starting to dig a little deeper and sure, you're not going to photograph as often, but you're going to start to get some really interesting moments. Brian, this is really well put together. I think this tells a wonderful story. I hope you got what you wanted to out of this. Uh it not only tells the story of the club, but I think the most special part in here are a lot of the portraits that you do in here. They're really well done. They're well-lit and then mixed in with the documentary photos of bands playing and uh people they patronizing the the club. This is just really well done. All the backstage images, it's very quirky and very cool and you've caught my interest in and it does look like a place that I would want to go visit. So, Brian, this is really awesome and uh really nicely printed. Uh it's professionally bound, cloth cover. Really nice work, my man. Anyway, that's it for today. I hope to hear from you guys soon with your own work and if you have any questions, leave them in the comments. I will catch you guys in the next video. Until then, later.