Last year, renowned photographer Alec Soth published his ninth book entitled I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating. But less than two years before its release, Soth considered walking away from photography entirely. In this documentary by Brennan Vance for Twin Cities PBS, Soth discusses that trying time in his life when he struggled with his critical success at the expense of his happiness and how a meditation practice and a falling-down farmhouse brought him back to center and led to the publication of his acclaimed book.

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