Alec Soth

 Alec Soth is an American Photographer. His work consists of many portraits, self portraits, and landscape paintings. Many of his portraits all share a somewhat rustic mood, looking just slightly faded. They give the feeling of nostalgia. His landscape images on the other hand are very enticing, and makes me as a viewer want to fully experience the emotions the image or scene conveys to me. 

This first image is titled Fort Jefferson Memorial Cross, Wickliffe Kentucky and was taken in 2002. The image displays yards men, who look to possibly be prisoners in their orange jump suits who are tasked with maintaining the spot. Soth's image looks to be grainy, and faded. The use of an older vehicle also implies it may be sort of a mock of an older time? Soth does an excellent job at posing his models too, making them look candid. 

This next image comes from his series titled Sleeping by the Mississippi. The cabin in the image is pushed off into the right third of the frame, leaving the middle and left open for the most part, only broken by a clothes line. The color in the clothes is super important, and really helps the viewer see as it contrasts against the white and snowy landscape. This image almost looks like a fictional place, with a clothes line simply floating on its own. The vast emptiness of the snowy tundra behind the cabin leaves the viewer wondering what more lies beyond the scene.

This last image by Soth is a self portrait. Soth covers himself in snow, and takes the image. The photo is described as an "unselfie" as his facial features and recognizable parts of him are covered by what the environment around him consists of. He did many other pieces like this, either covering his face with a glass, distorting his image while under water by blowing bubbles, or just by simply pixelating his face post editing.