NEW YORK.- A limited edition by Alec Soth will benefit Independent Curators International’s Exhibition Program. Advantage Inn, 2005 is one of the many images from Alec Soth’s most recent photographic project, NIAGARA. The photographs from this series explore the region surrounding America’s most celebrated waterfall and traditional honeymoon destination. Driving around in a van with quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and lists of subjects and items he wanted to find taped to his steering wheel, Soth captured motels, couples, wedding gowns, nudes, love letters and other images that focus on the myths of romance that envelop the area. The images present a sobering, awkwardly beautiful, heartbreaking venture into the realities of love and “happily ever after.”

About Alex Soth - Alec Soth records American life and landscape in the powerful photographic tradition begun in the mid 19th century and extending to the work of such photographers as Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Joel Sternfeld, who was Soth’s teacher. Through his 8 x 10 camera lens, Soth captures the extraordinary by exposing and utilizing the vernacular of the ordinary.

Soth was born in 1969 in Minnesota and is currently based in Minneapolis. The recipient of major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, Soth was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and S�o Paulo Biennials. Soth has also photographed for The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, LIFE and The New Yorker. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published in 2004, and his second, NIAGARA, was published Spring 2006. Soth is represented in New York by Gagosian Gallery.