ALEC SOTH

Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis (United States of America). He is an American contemporary photographer. Soth is a member of Magnum Photos agency since 2008 and he has photographed for The New York Times Magazine, Fortune and Newsweek. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center in Minnesota.

His major publications are Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual and Songbook.

His first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published in 2004.

Here you can see the image titled "The Key Hotel" that he took in Florida. In this image we can see a hotel with little human activity and the almost empty parking. A plane wrote in the sky the word "Jesus".

This image is unusual, striking and natural.

This picture belongs to an album called Songbook. That was his most important work. From 2012 to 2014 Soth traveled to the USA looking for signs of social life and picked up the photos in this book.

This is another picture titled ”A monk in the wood”. It is a picture of a man who wears a black dress and he is in the middle of the forest.

This picture is paceful and spontaneous.

This image belongs to an album called "Broken Manual". This book researches sites where people go when they want to get out of the civilization.