Alec Soth "Dog Days Bogatá" Interview at Magnum

Alec Soth is interviewed on the Magnum Blog by his intern, Carrie Thompson. He talks about his new book Dog Days Bogatá, which he shot while in Colombia adopting his baby daughter. I thought this comment was interesting, regarding the intermix between a photographer's own experience and his/her experience of a particular place and how that combines to create a particular point of view:

I'm not comfortable making any proclamations about Bogotá. I always say that Sleeping by the Mississippi isn't a document of the Mississippi River and Niagara isn't a document of Niagara Falls. In both cases, there are huge gaps because I'm exploring my own interests. I'm making my own Mississippi, my own Niagara. The same is true with Bogotá. My experience of the place was so profoundly shaped by adoption that I could never suggest I have a clear-eyed take on things.