A Cinematic Street Photography Genius?

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Discovering the cinematic work of french-russian street photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov.
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Video Breakdown
00:00 Intro.
01:31 Chasing Light
02:44 Don't Be A Prisoner Of Style
05:03 The Story of Gueorgui Pinkhassov
06:43 Conclusions.
A Street Photography Genius?
by Tatiana Hopper
February 2023
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[@TatianaHopper]

What street photographers would you like to see next? 👇 Also memberships to the channel are now open if you'd like to help & access exclusive videos more about it here: kzbin.info/door/uuv...

[@Joseph_Greco]

André Kertész.....Larry Clark

[@TatianaHopper]

@@Joseph_Greco I've been trying to get a video on Kertész ever since I made a composition video a while back. I definitely need to bring his name up again maybe with a book or so, and Larry's work is amazing I just googled him I only knew him from his movies. Cheers Joseph!

[@Joseph_Greco]

@@TatianaHopper Some of Clark's images might not pass KZbins guidelines (guns etc.)....but he's a great photographer.

[@TatianaHopper]

@@Joseph_Greco oh I had that problem with Mary Ellen Mark, its a shame but well I'll have that in consideration if I do decide to bring him up :)

[@mathieucladidier2882]

Raymond Depardon, love his BW work.

[@guillaumebouqueau]

Been an on-set photographer on a movie. It’s quite the challenge being creative and producing interesting photos in such a complicated world.

[@JoeJoe4P]

I was not at all familiar with this photographer. I love his use of light and shadow! Thank you for highlighting his work. Outstanding video!

[@TatianaHopper]

Absolutely! He is amazing at seeing those details isn't it. The way he perceives colour is just great! Cheers for watching Joe!

[@CasualPrince]

He has a feel of Saul Leiter to some of his shots. Thank you for introducing us to him. Have you done a video on Liam Wong?

[@TatianaHopper]

@@CasualPrince I haven’t but I will look him up yes he reminds me of Leiter a bit!

[@canturgan]

I like the way Pinkhassov uses the camera like a tourist. Good distraction technique.

[@polinesian90]

best street photography channel on youtube so far, thank you so much for making this kind of content ❤

[@davidhollenback3345]

Tatiana thanks so much for bringing Pinkhassov to our attention! His work certainly deserves to be seen. As always you bring your informed insight to his work and his comments. I find myself looking for books after almost every one of your videos!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you so much David! So glad you enjoyed it :) well that’s a healthy way to grow your collection !

[@VictorReynolds]

First time I heard of this photographer and his work. Thanks for sharing such an informative and inspiring story!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thanks for watching!

[@Ralf_Baron]

Thank you for making this video! Your work very well prepared, inspiring and educative!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you so much Ralf, really appreciate it! Glad to know you enjoy it!

[@Joseph_Greco]

Great stuff! Always cool to discover a photographer I wasn't familiar with before...I like his style. Keep them coming! 👍✌

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you so much Joseph! Same here love discovering new people and his work wasn't something I could ignore, very talented! Cheers for watching!

[@jamesmonte9214]

Another great video Tatian, thank you 👍

[@TatianaHopper]

Cheers James!

[@garyclennan2993]

Your videos are always sooo enjoyable and informative. And your finger snapping skills are insanely good. 🙂

[@TatianaHopper]

Ahah thank you so much Gary and cheers for watching!

[@MarkaustinHasler]

Thanks for introducing me to this absolutely incredible photographer ! Unreal work

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching Mark, glad you love his work!

[@richardrizzo_photography]

Another great video Tatiana, Pinkhassov's work is amazing.

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching Rich!

[@danielguiomar4224]

Thank you for making this video! You are incredible

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you so much 🤍🤍

[@continentalgin]

Excellent! Interesting that this photographer was not afraid of busy details within the compositions. Sets his work apart from others.

[@TatianaHopper]

Agreed! Thank you for watching!

[@chilecayenne]

OH wow.... I'm going to have to go back and watch this a 2nd time, just to hear what you were saying.. I was so enthralled with the images I forgot to listen...hahaha. Great video!! Thank you and have a great day!! CC

[@TatianaHopper]

Ahah no problem! Grateful you're watching, appreciate you and have a great day too!

[@WilliamReeves]

Gueorgui!!!!! I love his work! Got to meet him a few years back and he's a great guy as well. Thanks for this!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching! Glad to see you're familiar with his work, truly amazing!

[@nosherz]

Some compelling, evocative images, with use of color & how he captures a mood. Even the busier images work great, lovely video.

[@TatianaHopper]

I agree thank you for watching!

[@mid90s75]

His photos are really great!

[@TatianaHopper]

💯

[@jessewestlund5159]

So much inspiration for me in your videos

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching glad you find them inspiring 🙏🏻

[@darryljungen8307]

Thanks for another great video!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you Darryl!

[@charfiomar3487]

thank youu! if it's possible to show more photos in your videos please do so, it's nice to see you talk but I think the most interesting thing remains the photos you show of the artists. Also, I find that you say a lot the word "aaand". awesome content keep it up!

[@TatianaHopper]

That's true I say it a lot and I'm trying to get rid of that "speech helper" as for the artist's work I get it but in this case all I had to display was in the video I didn't have any more photos otherwise I would've included them of course, cheers for the feedback!

[@andcap2239]

This Chanel is so good

[@kronkite1530]

I came across him a few years ago and remember being so impressed by the richness of his colour that I downloaded clips of his photos, like the one of the hotel doorway in Spain. Felt he was very much undervalued so glad to see your profile of him.

[@TatianaHopper]

Actually I agree and feel the same he is so undervalued and when I found out about him my question was why haven't I seen much of him before or anyone talked about his work, I think he is really talented! Really enjoy his work!

[@Magneira]

Pinkhassov is a living legend.

[@TatianaHopper]

💯

[@anguyen800]

I have to say I learned a lot from those photographer you have introduced to us . This one is particular special , the use of artificial light intriguing me a lot and i do love it dearly . Thank you .

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching!

[@thegreatvanziniphotos5976]

This was great. I would love to see a behind the scenes vid of various movies.

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for watching and I’ll count your vote!

[@ajay_parvathi]

I never heard about him thank you for the video loving your videos ❤☮️

[@TatianaHopper]

You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@stevenbudd3725]

'Style' is the cornerstone of thematic consistency; in embedding continuity in a body of photographs intended to exist as a project of some kind. Style doesn't preclude 'stand alone' images but stepping outside a preferred m/o and breaking new ground certainly helps to widen your eye for possibilities. Today, the world is awash with single image photography, while themed work with recognisable style seems less common. Apologies if you've already done it (and I missed it) but a video in breaking down your view of the component parts of what style is (and can be) would be interesting.

[@jumaal-maskari6010]

Thanks

[@andgainingspeed]

Color might be his most consistent star, but his compositions are also quite striking. The images that I came back to were the photos where he is using a shallow depth of field. Could be he was just dealing with low light and moving subjects, but his choice of what to focus on had me wondering if has trying to jar the viewer a bit.

[@TatianaHopper]

Yes that’s right I agree with you and I appreciate your insight thank you for watching!

[@margotunger6936]

Wow, what an inspiration this guy!- and so poetic! Can't appreciate your approach and enthusiasm enough in what you're doing here! Thank you so much Tatjana! I personally love Stephen Shore and August Sander and lately discovered Hiroshi Sugimoto,who's work I adore very much....!

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you so much for giving it a watch Margot! Really appreciate it and Stephen shore has been on my list for a while I’m trying to get my hands on his American surfaces :) I don’t know Sugimoto so I will look him up! Thank you for your suggestions

[@margotunger6936]

@@TatianaHopperThank you for your answer Tatjana! I'm curious what you think about Sugimoto...!- Maybe he is more a philosopher of light.....But anyway, I'm sure even if you share your thoughts on the most boring photographer, we'd love to listen! Besides, I'm from Austria and I remember a female Austrian Magnum photographer called Inge Morath!- She had a huge impact on my seeing and thinking about photography ...! I think her work was outstanding for her time.....the 50ies and sixties....

[@TatianaHopper]

@@margotunger6936 hey thank you so much Inge Morath is familiar to me I actually think I mentioned her in some video before as for sugimoto I see what you mean the man is a philosopher for sure, beautiful and minimalist work I love it!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@mathewtoll6780]

This is a great treatment. Was not aware of this guy at all. Impressive work. You should do a vedio on Trent Parke - that's another photographer that doens't let style be a prison

[@Rusya196]

Do a video about Francesco Gioia or Sarah Van Rij/David Van Der Leeuw! I consider them one of the best contemporary street photographers

[@rogerhyland8283]

A comment about lighting. Since the start of this year I have been photographing the same few city streets of my home town, Melbourne Australia. It’s come about because i have limited time and by chance i found a place where i could almost always get a parking spot. Because of my situation i dont get in to do this until late afternoon. It varies a bit but usually between 4-6-30 pm. I started in mid summer so there’s a lot of light until about 8pm. Now its mid winter and its fairly dark by 5 or even earlier. This was a challenge at first because of the low light but also opened up a new world as the darkness brought out all the brightness of shop and street lighting. I’m not sure how to describe the effect on my photography but i guess it was a combination of the new light sources and the way it illuminated the environment. Other than Covid lockdowns Ive never devoted myself to such a limited location and the limitation has definitely altered what i look for on the street. I can see how i could be at risk of copying or repeating but at the moment i see it more as refining. I think when you stop being excited by potential subjects or opportunities or the results you are getting, you are probably just taking pictures that you’ve already taken, repeating a search that is over.

[@dmitrybelyakov]

You almost got it - it' more like Pinhásof. And yea he's great, love his work!

[@TatianaHopper]

Damn it 😅 maybe next time cheers for watching Dmitry!

[@batucave]

with pix it paints a thousand words...

[@charlessummers7381]

Great video! Behind the scenes videos would be interesting. I recall one centered around Lenny Kravitz. His dad was a war-time photojournalist. Lenny uses Leica. He has one or two books published. It may have been one of your videos. Jeff Bridges would be interesting as well. Thanks

[@AxisFilmsProductions]

Great video. If you decide to do a video on behind the scenes photography from movies then I would highly recommend checking out the work of William Mortensen on the set of “The King of Kings” in 1927. Mortensen was a fascinating character and he is the reason I pursued learning alternative printing processes.

[@TatianaHopper]

I will be checking that out! Thank you so much for watching and for your suggestion I will investigate that! Super cool!

[@zanetagregorova3955]

i really love your videos and the way you play with them, they are so pleasant to watch. i was thinking if you could maybe try to make a video about the work of stevie nicks? i think her work is something different and surely interesting from my point of view. thank you so much xx

[@TatianaHopper]

Hey thank you so much for watching! You mean Stevie Nicks the musician ? I wasn’t aware she was a photographer and I love hers and fleetwood Mac’s work !

[@zanetagregorova3955]

@@TatianaHopper yes yes! stevie nicks the musician. she made some great series of polaroids where she used herself as a model played with lighting, different angles, mirrors... i think she also had some exhibitions of these photographs. its kind of fascinating for me.

[@Shahmiiir]

Karet doroste dada ✌🏻❤️

[@RobertKuska]

Pinkhassov is untamed. He has no schedule, he has no projects. His mantra is "Porque no?". He accepts most work projects offered to him because it gives him an opportunity to travel to places he wouldn't (think of) otherwise. He takes photos in the same fashion. He doesn't limit himself. He doesn't work with a scene in his mind because then you are just limited by your experience or what you know and can imagine. He uses superzoom lenses, lcd display on his camera and (P) mode to takes photos as this way he can focus just on the scene and light and leave the unimportant technical stuff to camera. He is basically complete opposite of everything you learn on "street photography" youtube channels. Also it was Tarkovsky who told him to go out in streets and take photos and introduced him to Bresson. (I attended his workshop so all this information is from there, but also I believe you can find this in his interviews as well, he mentions this quite often.) This all resonates with me very much, especially because I suffer from aphantasia and it's hard from me to plan to what I want to shoot. Also all photos in Sightwalk were shot in 10 days. 10 days. It wasn't even him who was doing the editing (the process of choosing the photos). He said he just only had to hold the editors back so they don't go crazy with too much photos.

[@Jay-yy9ol]

Question: how does this photographer get to his final image? Does he manipulate the light and contrast, cropping in-camera? Or does he rely heavily on post production in a photo app? Or a I don’t know? Because both of these in themselves can be an art form unto themselves. Thank you.

[@someonewithsomename]

He was such a legendary figure in soviet photography. But I don't know a lot of people, who likes his recent work, it's just not really good any more. I don't know what changed him, french passport or shooting digital, but yeah

[@TatianaHopper]

Understandable but I mean that's why we all like different things, I'm sure some people prefer his past work, some others the present, some the whole of it :)

[@Jack-qn6vy]

Alex Webb = the reason I am moving from black & white only to color curious

[@CatalinGulan]

I was trying to leave my humble comment also quite 20 min ago..but I do believe something went wrong. If you will get it twice..please accept my excuses. What can I say..to me your Channel is awesome. I must say that I am following in parallel the Jamie Windsor Channel and yours and Jamie's are the most professional and in the same time sensitive Channles about Photography. Big congrats! ❤

[@TatianaHopper]

No worries, I got it just once ahah and honestly thank you so much for the kind kind words, I am not very familiar with Jamie's work but will definitely check it out! Appreciate the support my friend!

[@CatalinGulan]

@@TatianaHopper My pleasure anytime!

[@Тёма_Котиков]

You mispronounced his last name. He is PinkhAssov (emphasis on the letter "A", which I specially wrote big). In Russian, it is written Георгий Пинхасов. By the way, a little later you began to pronounce his last name correctly. Emphasis on "A" :)) Thank you for your videos, I enjoy watching them. Greetings from Russia

[@TatianaHopper]

Got it thank you so much and cheers for watching!

[@someonewithsomename]

It's Pea-n-khas-ov word stress on "a"

[@Justaperson717]

Pinkhassov. The emphasis is on "A".

[@TatianaHopper]

🫡

[@MaxKhokhlov]

The last name is pronounced as pin-HA(stressed, ha as in ‘harmony’)-sof.

[@TatianaHopper]

Thank you for the tip! And sorry for messing it up I googled and used translate but its always a hard task 😅

[@canturgan]

You should list the ones you've already covered.

[@TatianaHopper]

Have a look at the channel’s playlists it’ll help!

[@SecretMotorsport]

Gruyaert Gruyaert. He photographed like Gruyaert

[@TatianaHopper]

That’s right I can see a resemblance!

[@SecretMotorsport]

@@TatianaHopper I’m so excited for your video on Gruyaert! He is my absolute favourite. Absolutely love your videos too!

[@TatianaHopper]

@@SecretMotorsport Thank you so much, appreciate it!

[@kronkite1530]

@@TatianaHopper And another, similar to both, who could be great for a feature is Arthur Meyerson. arthur meyerson photography

[@TatianaHopper]

@@kronkite1530 oh yes I am familiar with his work! For sure would love to include his work in the channel :)

[@davidgambin2551]

It’s so refreshing to see someone talking about repetition… I see so many photographers doing the same again and again… I love that line of thought of evolving style.

[@dead.lisi4ka]

pronunciation is Pinkha'sov of course

[@TatianaHopper]

Yes sir!

[@dead.lisi4ka]

@@TatianaHopper ty for great video. Love that guy so much

[@devernepersonal3636]

Yes, the entire world is photographable. every aspect. However, i am not entirely comfortable photographing humans. i wish to be though. There are so many millions of photos happening within every second of everyday to be photographed.

[@TatianaHopper]

I understand where you're coming from, I suppose it would depend on the picture for me or the effect the blur creates :)

[@devernepersonal3636]

@@TatianaHopper Yeah that is true. Blur can be used for effect. Do you ever make videos showing your photography? :)

[@pasharaw]

pinkhAssov would be correct to pronounce. Thanks for the video! 🇷🇺🤍

[@TatianaHopper]

Thanks for the tip and for watching :)