“I photograph like a documentalist, but I make my prints like a painter.”
Todd Hido.
The photographs gathered in “Intimate Distance”, the first retrospective devoted to the American photographer, were made over the past twenty-five years.
Sequenced chronologically, the work also includes stops on each of the books he has published to date, but, despite these editorial stops, it’s always the portrait of another America, far from the idealized vision reflected by the American dream that is revealed. In this austere, empty country, in these silent alleys and endless roads, and even in these rooms barely inhabited by female bodies, untold stories and the beginnings of possible scenarios begin. Nothing could be more normal for this cinema-loving madman who says he has the television on all the time at home…









