Todd Hido
[Photographer, b. 1968, Kent, Ohio, lives in San Francisco.]
I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, “It’s been done,” enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.
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As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.
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To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or—maybe more importantly—are grappling with, often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept...
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