Todd Hochberg

Todd Hochberg is a documentary photographer. Working in conjunction with hospital bereavement programs, palliative care programs, hospices and directly with individuals, he makes documentary photographs and legacy video for individuals and families struggling with a serious illness or grieving the death of a loved one. The images and video serve as touchstones for feelings and memories pertaining to deep significant relationships and spiritual connections some of which may flourish in the intimacy of the last days or months of life. His Touching Souls Bereavement Photography has supported parents experiencing perinatal loss or the death of a child, as they say goodbye to their children and babies, since 1997. Hochberg brings 20 years of photographic experience in health care to his work. His bereavement photographs are part of the permanent collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography. He has received an International Center of Photography Infinity Award nomination for 2001, was a finalist in the W. Eugene Smith Grant Competition in Humanistic Photography for 2003 and received the MISS Foundation Phoenix Humanitarian Award for 2007. His Legacy work has been exhibited at the Voices Gallery at the University of Michigan Medical Center in 2006 and at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Clinical Conference in 2007. Hochberg’s work has been featured in Life magazine, Photo District News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Santa Fe Center for Photography web journal, the Association for Death Education and Counseling’s journal The Forum, NHPCO’s Children’s Project on Palliative/Hospice Services Pediatric Palliative Care Newsletter and in ATRIUM -The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Issue 5 2008. Todd presents to a variety of professional groups nationally and locally.