Alec Soth
http://alecsoth.com/photography/
"Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art produced a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work entitled From Here To There. Alec Soth’s first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) The Last Days of W (2008), and Broken Manual (2010). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos."
Alec's website is probably the best so far that i have come across. the navigation and layout is simple and understated which allows for focus on his images, which run through a flick through slide show. At the start shows the books front cover and then the gallery space, following on to the images, a great way of tying the whole project together and representing how it has been shown. As for his images, he documents the area and the people that live there. Although i do not include portrait imagery like Alec, his really help contextualise the area in which he is documenting and show what kind of lifestyles people in that area lead and how it effects the land around them. His landscapes are striking , they seem cold with a sense of empty space and represent the impact of the inhabitants on the land, something which is represented through my own photography like tyre tracks, forgotten rubbish and destruction.