Light and Shadow in the Suburbs: selections from 25 Years
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Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza is pleased to present Light and Shadow in the Suburbs: selections from 25 Years, a solo exhibition by Todd Hido.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published more than a dozen monographs, and his photographs are held in over fifty private and public collections worldwide.
Hido wanders endlessly, undertaking long road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique approach to landscape and his signature use of color, he reveals the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide a stable façade—while suggesting the instability that lies beneath.
As the title suggests, this exhibition focuses on the light and shadow of the suburbs, a subject Hido has consistently pursued. It presents a carefully selected group of works drawn from his extensive practice over the past twenty-five years. We invite you to experience this remarkable survey of his vision.
On the opening day, Friday, October 10, a signing of Hido’s previously published books will be held at Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza. For details and reservations, please visit HERE.
Artist
Todd HIDO
トッド・ハイド
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls.
His photographs are in over 50 private and public collections around the world, including the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works, and his work has been exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2025 and 2023.
Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016). A revised and expanded edition has been released in 3 languages (2025).
He returned to the cinematic landscape photography that he first explored with Roaming (2003), as well as in Bright Black World (2018), and followed it up with The End Sends Advance Warning (2024). Hido is also an avid photobook collector, and in the last 30 years has created a notable collection of over 9,000 titles.
His work has influenced multiple Hollywood productions, such as Spike Jones's Her, Sam Levinson's Euphoria, Issa López's True Detective: Night Country, and the directorial project by Jason Momoa, Chief of War. He is also one of the subjects of Momoa's documentary project on creative makers for HBO Max, On The Roam.
Headshot credit: Ryan HK
Publication
The End Sends Advance Warning
Hardcover, 14 x 17 inches, 104 pages, 80 four-color plates, 9 tipped-in cards, laid-in vellum brochure.
Book Signing with Todd Hido
Customers who pre-order the book via this page (advance payment required) will be eligible to receive a signed copy directly from the artist at the signing event on Friday, October 10, 2025.
◆ Signing Event Details
Date: Friday, October 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM
Venue: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
Ginsyo Bldg. 6F, 4-9-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo [map]
Eligibility: Limited to customers who pre-order the book via this page
Limited Quantity: First come, first served (ends when sold out)
Contact: +81 (0)3-6264-3670 / info@akionagasawa.com
▶︎ How to pre-order, please click here.
For over 25 years, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling.
With this stunning new monograph, Hido picks up where his previous title Bright Black World left off, presenting some 80 new and previously unpublished landscape photographs. The End Sends Advance Warning is beautifully printed on heavyweight art paper and bound in offset printed linen. The book also includes 9 tipped-in photographs printed on Kasadaka art paper, as well as tipped-in and laid-in booklets. A masterpiece of an artist’s book, and a must for the serious contemporary art library.
– From the publisher's website
House Hunting
Book Signing with Todd Hido
Customers who pre-order the book via this page (advance payment required) will be eligible to receive a signed copy directly from the artist at the signing event on Friday, October 10, 2025.
◆ Signing Event Details
Date: Friday, October 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM
Venue: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
Ginsyo Bldg. 6F, 4-9-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo [map]
Eligibility: Limited to customers who pre-order the book via this page
Limited Quantity: First come, first served (ends when sold out)
Contact: +81 (0)3-6264-3670 / info@akionagasawa.com
▶︎ How to pre-order, please click here.
Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious… and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.
– From our description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000
We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book – certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time – we have collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame.
– From the publisher's website
One Picture Book Two #34 : Untitled #2319-B-DMF
limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.
Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 1 four-color plate, 1 original signed photograph.
Book Signing with Todd Hido
Customers who pre-order the book via this page (advance payment required) will be eligible to receive a signed copy directly from the artist at the signing event on Friday, October 10, 2025.
◆ Signing Event Details
Date: Friday, October 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM
Venue: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
Ginsyo Bldg. 6F, 4-9-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo [map]
Eligibility: Limited to customers who pre-order the book via this page
Limited Quantity: First come, first served (ends when sold out)
Contact: +81 (0)3-6264-3670 / info@akionagasawa.com
▶︎ How to pre-order, please click here.
Todd Hido’s second contribution to our One Picture Book Two series, Untitled #2319-B-DMF, comprises a fold-out, 16x20-inch reproduction of an image Hido made in 1999: a rural house at dusk, surrounded by trees in silhouette against a blue sky.
Untitled #2319-B-DMF is the second of three volumes that will eventually form a triptych: a landscape, a house, and a portrait. (Hido’s first title in the series — Untitled #11856-0820 — presents a landscape photograph likewise printed over an entire form, folding out from the inside back cover. The final title in the triptych will present a portrait.)
One Picture Book Two #20 : Untitled #11856-0820
limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.
Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 1 four-color plate, 1 original signed photograph.
Book Signing with Todd Hido
Customers who pre-order the book via this page (advance payment required) will be eligible to receive a signed copy directly from the artist at the signing event on Friday, October 10, 2025.
◆ Signing Event Details
Date: Friday, October 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM
Venue: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
Ginsyo Bldg. 6F, 4-9-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo [map]
Eligibility: Limited to customers who pre-order the book via this page
Limited Quantity: First come, first served (ends when sold out)
Contact: +81 (0)3-6264-3670 / info@akionagasawa.com
▶︎ How to pre-order, please click here.
Published in 2018 to wide critical acclaim, Todd Hido’s Bright Black World explores the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the ‘endless winter’, many of Hido’s new images allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter.
An important and already highly sought-after monograph, Bright Black World benefited from its oversized format in presenting the epic landscape photographs of which it is comprised.
Hido’s latest contribution to our One Picture Book series takes this a step further: rather than dividing the sheet into 16 pages, Hido presents one of Bright Black World’s most recognizable images, ‘Untitled #11856-0820’, over an entire form which, when unfolded, measures some 16 x 21 inches.