(born 1968, Kent, Ohio)

Todd Hido is a contemporary artist and American photographer. Currently lives in San Francisco. The great part of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing in the US, of which the artist produces large, very detailed and luminous color photographs.

“Hido’s photographs reveal the isolation and anonymity in contemporary suburbs.” Disturbingly lit rooms and abandoned homes suddenly increase the effect of loneliness and loss.

Not all of Todd Hido’s photos are nocturnal outdoors, he also has series of interiors and portraits. In his interiors he has photographed from his childhood spaces to anonymous hotel rooms.

The artist acknowledges having many influences from Alfred Hitchcock, Edward Hopper, Stephen Shore, Robert Adams, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, Larry Sultan, Alfred Stieglitz, Andreas Gursky and Rineke Dijkstra.