In this video, you will see Hido talking about what it took to put his latest photography book together, "The End Sends Advance Warning." Hido's work is shot at night and usually when it's rainy and foggy, which creates a moody and ominous look. The homes are reminiscent of his hometown of Ohio, and being from Michigan, I can relate to all of his work. Hido says these images bring him back to his childhood. But they are shot in Northern California; he found an area near his home where the developer built homes similar to the Midwest style.
Hido says he is an artist, not a documentarian, and he suggests printing your photos. We get so stuck with our photos being digital and looking at them on screen, but when you create a physical copy of your image, it changes everything.
Hido also says that creating a photo book is the best way to get your work out into the world. Having a physical photography book in your home is a great way to immerse yourself in a physical form of photography as opposed to looking on the internet. I agree; I have many coffee table photography books, and I look through them often. They can provoke a new idea and are such a great source of inspiration.
Great times few understand the photo moments. There are images in my mind that I can never get an image of like driving down Rt. 86 toward Olean NY. where there are many dairy farms down below in shallow valleys and on moonlit nights after many snow falls and you look over and see this farm aglow perfect everything with barn and house and forest around, Being on the flight deck of an Aircraft Carrier on a Blue Nose cruise above the arctic circle and during a aurora borealis at a time when F-14's with the green side lights and refueling aircraft with upper and lower blue lights saying get topped off here all the while lights on the flight deck dimed for a great video for the mind forever. If ever possible you always are looking for these times of night that many take for granted just being on one's way through time. I can see what this photographer see's in his photos and his desire to share the few seconds frozen for a longer look!
Todd's images in my view project such a strong sense of sadness and loneliness. Makes me wonder if those are pictures of himself as well? Do we typically show our own personality through our photographs, or can we easily separate one from the other? In other words, create a mood in a photo very different from that which we experience. Or maybe I'm more sad and lonely as the viewer than I thought and read that into his pictures. Either way, I find a lot of emotions in his work.