Last Thursday,
RIT's
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) had the great pleasure of welcoming photographer
Todd Hido for a portfolio review and lecture.
Each student participating in the review had about 12-15 minutes to discuss their work. I showed my thesis work-in-progress at the review and received some great feedback! Here are my work prints, laid out on the table, before Mr. Hido's arrival:
Before reviews began, Todd was kind enough to show us the book dummy for his upcoming book
A Road Divided.
My fellow classmate, Lisa Adamucci shows her work:
Thursday evening, Todd presented his work, as part of the Charles Arnold Lecture series:
A fantastic pairing: Mr. Hido's images grace the covers of the new editions of Raymond Carver's collections of stories such as
Cathedral and
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
I'll never forget my first introduction to Todd Hido's work as a junior at
George Mason University, in my professor's PowerPoint presentation about contemporary photographers. I immediately fell in love with the nighttime portraits of houses, which influenced the creation of my
Abandoned Houses series. It was delightful, to say the least, to meet the man behind the photographs!
After portfolio reviews, Doug presented a lecture in which he read the afterword from his book, then showed some new work made both in Syracuse, NY, and Ireland. This included his portrait series Arrival.
I first learned about All the Days and Nights last summer when Aperture Foundation and Flak Photo presented a book giveaway. It was a pleasure to meet Doug and to hear about his work!
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