In March 2015, Alec Soth boarded an Amtrak train in Chicago and rode to Los Angeles with the English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Bragg was gathering material for an album about the railroad’s place in American social and cultural life; Soth photographed the musician and kept a visual diary of the passage west. That journey became If You Want to Ride You Gotta Ride It Like You Find It, the twenty-eighth entry in Nazraeli Press’s One Picture Book Two series.

The book is not a conventional tour document. Soth’s contribution to the series is a sequence of fourteen four-color plates across sixteen hardcover pages, sized at six by eight and a half inches. The scale encourages intimacy rather than spectacle, and the title, borrowed from a phrase about handling what you are given, suits a project made on the move: a photographer and a songwriter sharing the long hours of a train, one listening for a song and the other watching for pictures.

Nazraeli’s One Picture Book Two format has its own discipline, and Soth’s entry is shaped by it. The series pairs a compact body of images with an original signed photographic print, so the book functions as both reading copy and print object. Within that structure, Soth’s images hold the character of a diary: the musician, the passing country, the ordinary texture of a working trip. The result sits closely beside his broader interest in American travel, solitude, and the people met along the way.

For collectors, the appeal is threefold. Soth’s photographs are widely published, collected, and exhibited, and his work belongs to institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center. The collaboration with Bragg gives the project a specific and recoverable occasion. And the One Picture Book Two format, with its limited numbered copies and signed print, makes this a considered addition to a shelf that already follows Soth’s book-making or the series itself.