On assignment for Telegraph Magazine, Alec Soth made a 4-part series about the rise of China as an economic power and the US as a failing power pre Olympics at a time when they are fighting on two war fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military : Alec Soth spent a few days in Charleston, West Virginia, the US Army’s most fertile recruiting ground, speaking to new recruits and families of soldiers who never came back home from Iraq. He then spent two days at West Point military academy in New York, talking to more senior military figures. Historically, most empires fall when their armies are fighting...