Todd Hido

 

STRANGER From Outskirts Text by Luc Sante

"Things look strange, when you're a stranger.  Things that to locals, natives, homies are so familiar they are barely visible anymore, look strange to you.  What might be dully familiar or vaguely comforting in you own neighborhood can look desolate, forbidding, strange, if you see it somewhere else, at night, in fog."  

 

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Abelardo Morell

"Since 1991 I have con­verted rooms into Cam­era Obscuras in order to pho­to­graph the strange and delight­ful meet­ing of the out­side world with the room’s inte­rior.

In an effort to find new ways to use this tech­nique, I have worked with my assis­tant, C.J. Heyliger, on design­ing a light proof tent which can project views of the sur­round­ing land­scape, via periscope type optics, onto the sur­face of the ground inside the tent. Inside this space I pho­to­graph the sand­wich of these two out­door real­i­ties meet­ing on the ground. Depend­ing on the qual­ity of the sur­face, these views can take on a vari­ety of painterly effects."

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