Alec Soth is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis, who makes “large-scale American projects” featuring the Midwestern United States. The project Iam looking to study is his project ‘sleeping by the Mississippi’. SBTM is a photography book made from Soth travelling down the Mississippi and taking photographs in the areas around the river. 
The project contains many fascinating images, all of these images somehow relate to ‘sleeping by the Mississippi’. Some of the images more so than others, the following are some of my favorite images from the project – These images mainly focus around beds and occasionally death, which can be interpenetrated as sleeping beyond life.
My two favorite images are the photographs where you can see bed/mattresses in the water itselfs. This relates extremely closes to the title ‘SLEEPING by the MISSISSIPPI’ as it has bed posts and mattresses which are used for sleeping. Therefore the images show quite clearly a representation of ‘SLEEPING by the Mississippi’. Here are my two favorite images –
Choose at least one key image and analyse in more depth using model of description, interpretation, evaluation and theory/context. Talk about style, subject-matter and how he communicates his story. How does this image fit in with classic documentary aesthetic of ‘camera as witness’ vs staged photography.