The document summarizes a trip to the Science Museum to see two photography exhibitions. It describes visiting the Alec Soth exhibition and seeing sections from his various photography series including "Sleeping by the Mississippi", "Broken Manual", "Niagara", and "Songbook". For each series, the document provides a brief description and notes that Soth's photos capture real life in an honest, down to earth manner through his documentary style landscape and people photographs.

1. Trip Report
Documentary and Landscape

2. Description of Trip
• Thursday 28th January
• Firstly we traveled to The Science Museum in
South Kensington. Here we went to the Alec
Soth exhibition to look round and after a Julia
Margret exhibition.
• Lastly we traveled to Trafalgar Square to take
our own pictures relating to the themes I have
been researching of Documentary and
Landscape.

3. Alec Soth Exhibition
• This text was placed at the start
of the exhibition on the wall. It
explains Alec Soth as a person
and as a photographer. It
highlights the lines of his work
that includes: Sleeping by the
Mississippi, Niagara, Broken
Manual and Songbook.
• I found it quite interesting to
read this. I especially was
intrigued into how it explains
that he ranges his work into
fitting with different types of
audiences. This makes him
seem like he has as wide range
of skills and inspirations that
attract many different people
which ultimately expands his
audience.

4. Sleeping by the Mississippi
• The text to the left describes his first main
line of work.
• I really like this line of work, I like how it
includes a lot of pictures outside, they look
very down to earth and like honest pictures. I
think it captures real life very well.

5. Broken Manual

6. Broken Manual
• I think the pictures in this line are much more
focused on the message they have, they are
his most conceptual pictures. I personally like
them as I think they can be interpreted in
different ways, if someone did not know the
actual meaning.

7. Niagara
• I found this line to be much more based on people, the life they are living,
rather than the location and nature. I like the way these pictures don’t like
manipulated or processed at all, I think he has captured real life very well.
Most of the people he photographs are very expressionless. I think the
situation they are in, in the picture i.e. the location and background, is
very crucial to build the aspired atmospheres in these pictures.

8. Songbook
• The pictures from this line are all in black and white, generally speaking,
there is more stuff going on in these pictures, they are more busy, and
have more upfront expression and atmosphere. In a lot of them, it looks a
lot less set up than some of his other lines, like the people are behaving
naturally, not looking at the camera. I think this line of work is the most
different, it looks less like his work. This might be because it is the most
recent line, so he wanted to bring in some new ideas. However they are of
course still down to earth documentary pictures. I think these are more
documenting a situation, rather than documenting one single persons life.