The artists included in Where I’m Calling From share an interest in using photography to craft works of fiction. The exhibition’s title, taken from a short story by Raymond Carver, alludes to the narrative quality of the works as well as the many ways they correspond with and amplify themes in Todd Hido’s work such as the passage of time, the vulnerability of the ego, and the prospect of danger.

These photographs suggest stories; the places depicted are inhabited, occupied, acted upon; the subjects have something to say. Just as the telephone receiver in the last image in Excerpts from Silver Meadows is off the hook, the line occupied, the stories in Where I’m Calling From are open-ended, allowing for multiple conclusions.

- Danielle Meeker