How TODD HIDO creates ATMOSPHERE

I wonder if summer nights was an influence on Hido when making these pictures. I find Adams nocturnal pictures more engaging than Hido's but it must be said the colour in Hido's work gives them phycological layer that is difficult to find in such consitency in a body off work. Nice video

Except for people who have the heart of an explorer. They stay long periods of time in desolate spaces. Often exploring and making camp in abandoned creapy buildings. :)

Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.

This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.

Reminds me of the cinematography of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

It would be great if you could do a video on the photography of Maria Lax. She did a project called 'Some Kind of Heavenly Fire', which contains a series of photographs of her small hometown in Finland, which was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s. I think they have a very similar feel to Todd Hido's 'Homes at Night' series.

What a brilliant video! It struck me though that while the mood of all the images is sombre, the level of unease reduces if there is some 'life' in the images even if it's not human. It could be trees that seem trimmed, or even power lines that seem to be 'source' of the light in the window. A car that looks recently driven. Those images are far less disturbing, because it makes you think the inhabitants are just out, rather than the space has been completely abandoned. Like others have said in the comments, during the height of the pandemic, it was ghastly seeing places like NYC sparsely populated - whether it was Grand Central or Times Square. I have always hated crowds, but what I wouldn't have given at the time to be jostling with strangers and having a typical New Yorker yell at someone to get the hell out of their way.

Extremely intriguing video, liked & subscribed right away.

Great video. Truly wonderful !

One of the best presenting manner on YT. 👏🏻

I was pretty blown away when I saw Hido's shots. And then felt kinda mad that I didn't think of that. Medium to Large format camera. DOF for days. Long exposures at night with these creepy houses that I grew up with in suburbia in the 80's. It just felt so right. Ya, his work is great.

Love you channel and your videos for 2 key reasons. First, the videos are very informative and I always learn something. Second, dude you could read the tax code and I would still be hanging on at the edge of my seat.

Reminds me of the backroom.

I sometimes have dreams that feel like this

That first image is like taping a banana to a wall and calling it art. I don't care who took and neither should anybody else. The photographer's name doesn't make throw-away images valuable.
Hard to watch the rest of the video if that's how it leads off.

A very interesting episode Jamie.

Well done! The music you chose while showing images certainly helps color the vibe of images throughout as well, perhaps something to consider?

I came across your long exposure video and now this one. These are fantastic in the way they are shown. Incredibly inspiring and well described.

To me, it feels like the person taking the photo shouldn't be there

Alone

I love creepy photos

This is the dude the took picture of the backroom

Great video.

Man said my memories of the time are patchy. Thats the about great childhoods and younger years they are patchy.

Love the video as always.

Jamie, your channel is the very definition of great content. A perfect balance between aesthetics and information.

great vid!

I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.

great video thanks for sharing

Good review...I agree about this "feeling".

Photos of Chernobyl really do it for me

Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.

This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow

Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.

thank you. just thank you

Love your analysis!

Excellent reportage. I did not know about this photographer and like many others i do relate to his photography

Its funny because its the opposite for me, I find these places comfortable feeling.

Another master class of opening our eyes to excellent art and fascinating narrative. Thank you.

Jamie thanks a lot, for opening the world of photography through your videos. You're a master.

As a species we’re used to people, especially in familiar places. Even the hermit in the cave takes comfort there are people in the outside world. We have an innate fear of being totally alone. Hido’s work brings that fear to our visual senses.

Great video. We rarely see stuff about subjective than objectiveness of photography. Thanks🎉

His images look Lynchian.

It's the cropping against all golden spiral rules that creates the eerieness in those pictures. Not the colours so much. Place elements to the very edges, cut them even so they fall out of the frame. Disobay any composition rules, throw it out of balance, yet remain stable. That way you will find wonderful disturbance, since the eyes can't rest and expect something to happen from the sides every moment. Think of the exits of a theatre set the villain can enter from any moment. Dare to disturb the peace and beauty. Don't like to be liked.

As you increase your skill in photography you come to realize that it is not the photo editor that will make you photo but rather it is the image you see before your eyes. It is the ability to faithfully capture that very scene. It is the light, the tone, the composition, the story.

This is exactly the type of content I was looking for

I think the fear (which to me is more of a sadness) we feel might be more related to a sensation of emptiness rather than loneliness. I had this thought exactly because of the clips from 28 days later you used, which don't evoke feelings of dread or melancholy in me, because I see this person, I see life, I see the city, I see opportunities to do things we can't do normally almost like I see the good in isolation. Yet within Hido's perspective, I see something painfully melancholic in this emptiness, it's just not the same kind of isolation.

I know that uneasy feeling. I woke up early to take some sunrise shots and using the staircase that I've used so many times felt so creepy. I felt like I'm off oing something wrong like a theif

Genius! Thank you!

Great Video 👏👏👏

John Darko sent me 🫡