BIO
Michael H. Hodges picked up a camera for the first time in 15 years when he started writing his architecture blog in 2007 for The Detroit News, where he covers art and Detroit-area museums.

Hodges quickly realized he wanted to illustrate the blog with his own work. That decision and the photographic exploration that followed revolutionized his relationship to Detroit. It brought the city’s idiosyncratic landscape into sharper focus, and turned Hodges, who grew up on a dairy farm 31 miles north of the city,  into a helpless champion of Detroit’s one-of-a-kind elegance, grit and plaintive beauty.

BLOG
You can visit Hodges’ architecture blog at www.detnews.com/architecture.

SLIDESHOW & LECTURE
Hodges is also available to give his Detroit-architecture lecture and slideshow, “Love the One You’re with: On Architecture & Urbanism in Detroit,” which he’s presented at numerous public libraries, the University of Michigan, Oakland University and The Henry Ford. Contact him at fotos@unexpecteddetroit.com for rates and details.