#7373 Possibly 2009 - 2016

Todd Hido took this photograph called #7373 sometime after he was born in 1968, and it looks like it was made with film. The color palette is tight, mostly greens and yellows, but they make this image feel spacious and unsettling. The texture of the snow is incredible. You can almost feel the crunch under your feet. It’s like Hido is using light to sculpt the scene, those dark lines in the snow making these amazing, abstract marks. Check out how the light from the window spills out, it’s so warm against the cold blues and greens. It’s almost Hopper-esque in how it captures this everyday alienation. The process feels so important here, like the photograph is less about the subject and more about the feeling of a place. Think about Gregory Crewdson, another artist who builds these elaborate, staged photographs that tap into a similar sense of suburban dread. Both these artists create this uneasy feeling that there's something more happening under the surface.