Alec Soth

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

— Alec Soth

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

— Alec Soth

I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

— Alec Soth

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

— Alec Soth

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

— Alec Soth

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

— Alec Soth

If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

— Alec Soth

It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

— Alec Soth

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to…

— Alec Soth

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

— Alec Soth

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

— Alec Soth

In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you…

— Alec Soth

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But…

— Alec Soth

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was…

— Alec Soth

I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am.…

— Alec Soth

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is…

— Alec Soth

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I…

— Alec Soth

Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes…

— Alec Soth

I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs…

— Alec Soth

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I…

— Alec Soth

Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It…

— Alec Soth

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year…

— Alec Soth

I've never been the type of photographer to live with people I photograph. You know, shoot heroin with them, that kind of…

— Alec Soth

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the…

— Alec Soth

People can talk about the death of social life or whatever; it's not necessarily how I see it. It's more musical in…

— Alec Soth

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together.…

— Alec Soth

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for…

— Alec Soth

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind…

— Alec Soth