Closed doors — Alec Soth seriously considered giving up photography, before a new project exploring human connection in the contemporary world drew him back in. ‘I can’t help it,‘ he admits. ‘I am who I am.’
Written by: Jacob Charles Wilson
Playing Around, Trying Stuff Out — Huck editor Andrea Kurland catches up with great American documentarian Alec Soth about his impressive, constantly changing career, during his first UK retrospective at the Science Museum, London.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
This is the USA — In Huck 53 we explore how a photographer like Alec Soth gets to where he is, on Magnum’s roster and gallery walls, with an audience that celebrates his every whim and fancy. Here are his most iconic books.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
Lone ballroom dancers and the last snow globe repairman — Alec Soth criss-crosses the States to document the breakdown of community in small-town America.
Written by: Alex King