Workshop
Workshop
Todd Hido
Todd Hido
Photo credit Whitten Sabatini
This workshop with Todd Hido is designed for photographers who have a body of work and are looking to bring it to the next level. During this week-long retreat in San Miguel de Allende, Todd Hido will share his experiences in the art and book publishing world, and give his personal insight on the technical aspects of shooting and equipment, editing, sequencing, presenting, and post-production, from archiving to file management. Todd will also share his extensive knowledge of photobooks gathered in the last 25 years of producing over a dozen publications (and collecting over 8,500 photobooks!) Students will have direct and personal access to Todd through lectures, personal one-on-one portfolio reviews, a group critique and Q+As, as well as watching Todd lead students through demonstrations on both portraiture and shooting buildings at night.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls. His photographs are in over 50 private and public collections around the world, including the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works. Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting(2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016). A revised and expanded edition is coming in 3 languages in 2025. He returned to the cinematic landscape photography that he first explored with Roaming (2003), as well as in Bright Black World (2018), and followed it up with The End Sends Advance Warning (2024). Hido is also an avid photobook collector, and in the last 30 years has created a notable collection of over 8,500 titles.His work has influenced multiple Hollywood productions, such as Spike Jones's Her, Sam Levinson's Euphoria, Issa López's True Detective: Night Country, and the upcoming directorial project by Jason Momoa, Chief of War. He is also one of the subjects of Momoa's documentary project on creative makers, On The Roam.
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