We wish to invite you to a meeting with an outstanding american photographer Todd Hido titled „Sources and influences, or an attempt to find answers to elusive questions” held within the framework of the 11th edition of the „We Are All Photographers” series. The meeting will be held in English.
Venue: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, multimedia hall, entrance from Burschego street.
LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES, ADMISSION FREE WITH A PASS. PASSES CAN BE COLLECTED IN ZACHĘTA TICKET OFFICES DURING TWO DAYS BEFORE A MEETING – 18 AND 19 MAY (SATURDAY, SUNDAY) 12:00-19:30 HOURS.
The meeting will be broadcast live on our Facebook profile HERE.
Todd Hido will cover the experiences, strategies, and influences that have formed and shaped the photographer’s career. He will describe in detail the process of making his several of his monographs and the exhibition’s that coincide. He will candidly present not only his own work but will provide answers to the elusive questions many artists ask themselves: Where does my work come from? What does it say? How can I express myself more effectively? What does it mean—and does that even matter?
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 lies behind the walls. His photographs are in many private and public collections, including the Getty, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Notably, Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all his published works. He has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monograph Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013) and the innovative B-side box set designed to function as a companion piece. His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014), part of The Photography Workshop series, and the mid-career survey Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album (2016). His next book, Bright Black World, will be released this fall. Hido is also a collector, and over the last twenty-five years has created one of the most notable photobook collections, which will be featured in Bibliomania: The World’s Most Interesting Private Libraries (Random House, 2019).
Authors and initiators of the We Are All Photographers series: Monika Szewczyk-Wittek and Katarzyna Sagatowska
Organisers: WSZYSCY JESTEŚMY FOTOGRAFAMI, barStudio, Fundacja Powiększenie
Main partners: Fujifilm Poland, E. Wedel
Partners: Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki / Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Sputnik Photos, TeatrStudio
Media patronage: Artinfo.pl, Co Jest Grane24, Digital Camera Polska, Fotopolis.pl, NOTES.NA.6.TYGODNI, Radio TOK FM, Warszawawarsawcom
Todd Hido artist residency co-financed by City of Warsaw.
photo: Todd Hido, #10552-c (2011)
