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

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpret…

- 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

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

- 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 didn't want to be alone making …

- Alec Soth

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

- Alec Soth

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

- 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 sure in my w…

- Alec Soth