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October 14, 2010
Todd Hido's foreclosed homes series is seen as a part of the picturing the foreclosure crisis taking place across the US even though they made in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
This body of Hido's work is of interiors of vacant, foreclosed homes is a timely series that captures the insides of houses devoid of people and furniture. The traces of habitation are evident:
Todd Hido from foreclosed homes’ series
The blue carpeting above signals the presence of what is probably a bed located above the light blue rectangle against the wall at left. The series is mostly of t rooms cleaned entirely, save for a lamp left in a corner or a plastic coat hanger atop plush blue carpet. Though the rooms aren’t exactly clean, they’ve mostly been cleared of anything significant that isn’t bolted down.
Todd Hido from foreclosed homes’ series
In this interview Hido says:
it is a very sad situation, when people have to give up their homes, but I am not making any judgment. I feel there is pathos to the images that the aesthetical method suggests. In these particular cases the way, I try to photograph in a way, that is suitable for that kind of situation. These are rooms, which are charged, and something has happened there. If you just make a document of that it wouldn’t do justice to what occurred in that place. By bringing in the mood and the darkness in my pictures, I think I can bring something more to the table.
He adds that it is very important to create this atmosphere. It brings out stories just as the beauty brings people into the photographs. I
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