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{SPEAKER name="Alec Soth"}
I mean, in fact there is, I mean, there, in the Minnesota side, um, most of it, there were no stylists, you know, no creative people, I did it on my own
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so, I went to this ice skating rink, and you know, just asked her if I could take her picture
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um, and it's as simple as that, so we're not selling anything, or whatnot,
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um, however a section of the, of the Minnesota side was done for W Magazine
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and, and actually that was quite funny, cause that, W Magazine is a big fashion magazine and, lots of money behind it
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so they came, and we did it all in the winter, that which was important me, uh, so
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we actually went a few hours north of where I live in Minnesota in February, and you know, you know the the stylist had two tailors
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two assistants, you know this is just the stylist
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you know, so we had trucks, we had everything, but we photographed real people, I didn't photograph models
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so, we found you know, uh local students to do it, and did this whole crazy shoot and I love it. And what it really got at was this other kind of beauty.
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um, the representative image here isn't quite fair, because this is a young woman, but most of the Paris pictures
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toward the end of the project I realized that that the Paris pictures should be about older women
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like, this really elegant, sophisticated older women, and the Minnesota pictures would be young, awkward, but also beautiful
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um, and it became about that. This whole project was done in six months, which is just incredibly fast to do
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like you know, hundreds of pictures. But I love these challenges
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and again, this is kind of what I like about being a photographer, these crazy experiences.
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Um, can't help but mention John Gossage, photographer right here, sorry, uh, is only here today because
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[laughing] yeah, I made him, but he and I, this last January uh were in New Zealand. Got invited to New Zealand
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and, uh, spent a couple weeks photographing there, and I love you know, I didn't know anything about New Zealand
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I mean, nor did I read anything in advance
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I mean, it was like totally uh, and you just get dropped into a situation
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um, that's the way magazine photography is sometimes, and it can be horrific, you know and sometimes it's magical.
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Um, just you know a month or so ago I was in the republic of Georgia, and this was not planned far in advance at all, I just got dropped into this place
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and, um, it followed up on this by photographing women only. In a very different way, and um, and it was a fantastic experience.
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so, so then I'll do something like that, and then I'll do, you know, tomorrow we're driving to Nashville
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I have a, I'm doing, for a quickie assignment, on tent cities, so there's a big tent city in Nashville,
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and then I'll go back to the personal project that I've been working on for years, so it's, its' always something new, uh...