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Bedroom shots: Alec Soth on the intimacy of personal space

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.’

  • Photography
  • Jacob Charles Wilson

Photographer Alec Soth on the importance of being a beginner

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.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

Best photo books by American documentarian Alec Soth

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.

  • Magazine
  • Andrea Kurland

Is community dying in America? Photographer Alec Soth went to find out

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.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

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