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Liam Kazar, thinking about books. Chicago, Illinois. January, 2023. © Clayton Hauck

“For me, photography, so often, is about consciousness. It’s about how we translate the world through the eye and into the brain.” -Alec Soth

Yeah, this here blog is becoming a place to mostly re-post Alec Soth videos. But I don’t care. He’s back again with another banger video filled with photography goodness (see below). Having journeyed names in the genre — people like Soth and Parr who have been through the ringer and experienced all the highs and lows of being a photographer — around and available to discuss topics, shine a light on things, and push the whole thing forward is so incredibly important. This is why it was such a huge loss for all of us to lose Martin Parr this year.

Now that I run a photobook shop, I realized that I’ve purchased far fewer books this year for myself than I had in years past. This video, while a great watch on it’s own, was nice in that it inspired me to purchase some new photobooks from China that I otherwise would not have done. One of my big hopes with the bookshop is to eventually be able to both bring more obscure titles from around the world to my hometown of Chicago and be able to do more traveling myself.

-Clayton