Todd Hido Featurette
February 23, 2008 // Films + Photography

Last night I was checking my stat counter and noticed that someone had visited my site after searching for Todd Hido, the amazing photographer who creates the moodiest/creepiest photos of rural suburbia. Well I ended up coming across a video interview with him (it really wasn’t hard, it was on the first page of searches) that’s actually really good, even though it’s over a year old.

First off he’s a white guy, not Japanese like I thought he was, and his last name is pronounced “high-dough” not “he-dough”. He gets his creepy photos by being kind of creepy himself, standing outside of people’s houses from anywhere to 4 – 10 minutes, getting the extremely long exposures you see in his photos. Okay, I actually think that part is funny, not creepy. Check out the video, it’s 10 minutes worth of photo fun.

Bobby

  1. I laughed at “a book is kind of like a paper movie.”

    Comment by Piers — February 23, 2008 #

  2. wow – this really challenged my preconceptions. I always assumed Hido was a japanese zen guru type, not a schlubby nervous white nerd. His work is still fantastic.

    Comment by felix — April 28, 2008 #

  3. Yeah, I was pretty surprised as well. I just loved seeing an inside view of his world.

    Comment by Bobby — April 28, 2008 #