Todd Hido: Back in the 1970s, what led you to decide to travel out of New York and start photographing across the US and Canada? How did you choose the route and the places you photographed? | | |
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Stephen Shore: In the late 1960s, my best friends in New York were all from Amarillo, Texas. They would go home in the summers. In 1969, I spent a couple of months visiting Amarillo and saw an America that I hadn’t been exposed to. I started visiting each summer but wanted to explore the country more extensively. In 1972, I drove out. This became the American Surfaces trip. The following three years, I made cross-country trips. Each time I chose a different route. These cross-country trips were the core of Uncommon Places. |
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Todd Hido: Literal intersections appear in your work often, from Early Work to Uncommon Places to the more recent Topographies. What is inherently interesting to you about intersections? |
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| | Stephen Shore: One of my aims, particularly in the 1970s, was to learn how three-dimensional space is rendered in two dimensions, while at the same time preserving the scene’s visual logic. Intersections became a laboratory for that exploration. | | | Todd Hido: Would you set up at a promising intersection and wait for the right light, subject, or action? Or are you shooting it as you see it, and then move on? | | | Stephen Shore: If the light wasn’t right, I wouldn’t take it. Sometimes, if I were working for a day or more in one city, I might comeback when I would suspect the light would be better. But so much of a picture depends on the conditions at a specific moment – the light, the sky, even the barometric pressure. All else being what I wanted, I would wait until the automotive and pedestrian traffic was what I liked. |
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An excerpt from the discussion between Todd Hido and Stephen Shore in our latest issue 214: Stephen Shore, available to order below. |
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Haute Photographie is an international art fair for fine art photography that has been organised annually in Rotterdam since 2016, and is now open until March 29th. The fair distinguishes itself through its museum-like setting, which focuses on the artistic experience rather than a traditional commercial presentation. Photographers are given the space to display their work as an exhibition, placing the focus on content, vision, and quality.
This year, Hotshoe is honoured to have been chosen in their selection of outstanding print magazines, and will be featured in their 'Celebrate Print' section throughout the fair.
'In an increasingly digital age, the tactile power of the printed page remains the ultimate sanctuary for high-end photography. “Celebrate Print” is a curated exhibition and platform within Haute Photographie Rotterdam 2026, dedicated to honoring the top 15 international print magazines that serve as the vanguard for photography in Art, Design, and Fashion. This project aims to bridge the gap between editorial storytelling and fine art photography, providing a stage for the publishers who invest the most energy, craft, and soul into the physical medium. While Haute Photographie traditionally focuses on the individual artist, “Celebrate Print” shifts the lens toward the curators of the page. We will select 15 magazines that treat every issue as a collectible object of art.'
Please take some time to visit if you're attending Art Rotterdam, and send us some pics if you see Hotshoe on display!
For more information click here. |
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Now showing at The Architectural Association in London is an exhibition of polaroids by Andrew Holmes to coincide with the publication of the book ROAD WORK. This exhibition brings together sixteen large-scale prints taken from a series of 1,000 Polaroid photographs that the artist and former AA tutor Andrew Holmes took in 1980s Los Angeles, documenting the houses, cars, trucks and containers he observed, together with two of the original sets of images he made.
Andrew Holmes’s work deals with the unnoticed world: his subjects are set classically against azure skies, frozen like statues in a Renaissance garden. The images of assorted Americana captured during frequent trips across the country became the source material for the photorealist drawings for which he is best known. But the Polaroids are also artworks in themselves, first shown in the exhibition Hundreds of Things at the AA in 1986 and revisited now through this display of prints and a new publication, ROAD WORK (Circa Press, 2025).
For more information click here! | | | | | Opening in April at TONER Gallery in Cornwall is a group photography exhibition and workshop series titled Peripheral Vision. Exhibiting artists include Viviana Almas, Gabriele Zukauskaité, Maria Meco and Polly Hardwicke.
When we look at photographs, attention usually settles on what is visible in the frame. Peripheral Vision asks a more practical question: what relationships had to exist for these images to come into being? The four photographers in this exhibition work through duration. Their images are made through repeated return: to places, to people, to gestures, to situations that only reveal themselves through sustained presence. What is visible here carries the weight of time spent in contact — negotiation, care, friction, and commitment.
TONER Gallery 61-62 Chapel Street Penzance Cornwall TR18 4AE Exhibition: 10th - 25th April 2026 Opening Night: Friday 10th April, 5-8pm
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