Photographer Todd Hido has selected a series of photography books that explore the notion of family through an intimate lens. These books show how photographers turn their cameras on those closest to them, be they blood relatives or chosen families formed by friendship and community. The images capture moments that reveal the complexity of everyday family life and family relationships in all their forms.

The books present different approaches, from spontaneous snapshots to formal portraits, and show how photographing one's own family becomes both a personal archive and a means of understanding human relationships.

Todd Hido (b. Kent, Ohio, 1968) tirelessly travels the world in search of images that resonate with his own memories. Through his singular approach to landscape and his color palette characterized by low light, Hido evokes the quiet and mysterious side of rural and suburban America - where uniform communities offer a facade of stability while suggesting the instability that often lurks behind the walls.

His photographs are included in over 50 museum collections worldwide, including the Getty, the Whitney and SFMOMA, and Les Rencontres d'Arles has devoted solo exhibitions to him in 2019 and 2025. Hido has published over a dozen monographs, including House Hunting, Excerpts from Silver Meadow and The End Sends Advance Warning with Nazraeli Press. Aperture, Textuel and RM Editions published Intimate Distance: A Chronological Survey, in an expanded edition released in 2025.

Hido is also a passionate collector of photography books and, over three decades, has built up a remarkable collection of over 9,000 books.