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American fine art photographer Todd Hido exhibits at Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery

COLOGNE.- With their current exhibition Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery presents works by the renowned American fine art photographer Todd Hido. Hido has emerged as a photographer through his night shots from the series ‚House Hunting‘, where he photographed houses in the suburbs of America. Contrary to the clear language of the pictures and the precise execution of this work are his slightly melancholic, almost pictoral landscapes. Photographed through the windshield of his car, he presents the world through a diffuse veil of water and ice. Some details are sharp while others melt into abstract fluid forms. And although one cannot see clearly through the glass, one still gets an impression of the vastness that may lie beyond in endless highways. Through the visible separation of the inner and outside world the photographer emphasizes himself more than before in this work. His landscapes are