When Stacey Baker spots a good pair of legs, she has to move quickly. Sometimes she races down the sidewalk to catch the woman before she slips out of sight. Sometimes she sidles up and gently introduces herself. Quickly, she persuades the stranger to pose for her by whipping her iPhone out of her pocket, showing some of the images on her @stace-a-lace Instagram account and explaining that she needs the woman to stand up against a particular wall and raise her arms above her head.
Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked photographer Alec Soth to help her explore this topic, they found themselv…
Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked photographer Alec Soth to help her explore this topic, they found themselves at the world’s largest speed-dating event, held in Las Vegas on Valentine’s Day, and at the largest retirement community in Nevada — with Soth taking portraits of pairs in each locale. Between these two extremes, they unwound a beautiful through-line of how a couple goes from meeting to creating a life together.
In a recent TED talk, photographer Alec Soth and New York Times Magazine photo editor Stacey Baker tell the story of an assignment they worked on together exploring the topic of how couples meet
