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You can order Jon's book here - https://jonmccormack.com/book/
Jon McCormack works by day as a VP at Apple over camera software. His work impacts more people in photography than just about any other camera technology I can think of.
But what you probably don’t know about Jon is he is also an accomplished photographer in his own right. I first met Jon in Cupertino years ago at an iPhone launch and he’s appeared on this channel before.
I’ve gotten to know Jon pretty well since both as a photographer and an incredibly interesting human being. His new book has just come out on Dam-yah-ni. It’s simply called Patterns and showcases Jon’s beautiful work made over the past few years. This project takes the viewer on a visual journey both across the world and also an impressive range of subject matter showing us the associations and beauty of a visual syntax that is part mathematical, part other worldly and always beautiful.
I had a chance to sit down with Jon a few weeks ago to talk about the book as well as his philosophy and approach to photography.
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00:00 Introduction — Jon McCormack & “Patterns”
01:00 From Apple Park to Photography
02:04 The Book as a Visual Poem to the Planet
03:00 How COVID Sparked the Project
04:21 Discovering Patterns on a Single Beach
05:59 Finding Beauty in Mathematics
07:10 Math, Creativity, and Finding Your People
08:59 From Observation to Visual Language
10:13 Seeing Patterns Across the World
11:04 The Rock That Became a Landscape
12:24 Why Humans Are Wired for Patterns
14:07 Breaking Out of Photographic “Genres”
15:07 From Zebras to Microscopes — Same Pattern
16:24 Photography as Connection
18:02 Patterns Across Time and Nature
19:03 Building the Book — What Changed
20:00 Why the First Edit Didn’t Work
21:03 Sequencing, Surprise, and Flow
23:10 Creating Meaning Between Images
25:02 Ice Caves and Extreme Environments
28:38 Access, Trust, and Real Exploration
33:14 Photography with Purpose (Conservation)
36:07 What Are You Trying to Say?
47:18 What’s Next — From Earth to Space
50:20 The Octopus Story (A Perfect Ending)
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