Sasha Gusov – författare

Collecting the World collects twenty-five years of Sasha Gusov’s street photography, exploring the morals, customs and manners of people across the world. ‘Whatever Sasha focuses his lens on reveals both the humour and pathos of our human condition. He is a master of composition, and somehow his light touch enables us to come face to face with the tragedy of our complicity in historical repetition.’ - Gillian Anderson OBE, actor and winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards Sasha Gusov (b.1960) is a Russia-born, UK-based photographer, fascinated by the morals, customs and manners of people across the world. Alongside his commercial work for influential clients including Vogue, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Gusov is an avid street photographer, and his keen eye finds the differences, commonalities, comedy and gravity in people and places. Collecting the World presents his photographs taken over twenty-five years in a picture selection curated by editor Amanda Renshaw. An essay by academic and photographer Peter Hamilton sheds light on Gusov’s life as a photographer in Russia and London and his unique visual language. In Collecting the World Gusov juxtaposes toreadors outside a bullring in Spain with synchronised swimmers in Belarus; a sumo wrestler riding a bicycle with a pilot sitting with his bike in front of an aircraft; and Jude Law in jeans and a ballerina from the Bolshoi Ballet in costume puffing on cigarettes. His message is clear: people are people all over the world. Copublished by moholinushk archive, Zurich, and Hurtwood, London

After gaining international recognition with The Bolshoi (La Fábrica, 2017), the Russian photographer Sasha Gusov turns us into privileged spectators of the life of one of the most fascinating men in history: Michelangelo.This volume—a collaboration between Sasha Gusov and the Russian film director Andrei Konchalovsky—is a photographic diary that not only portrays the shooting of the movie The Sin, but also observes the faces from the past with extraordinary depth, bringing us closer to the Renaissance man’s psychology and the lights and shadows of his constant search for beauty. Gusov’s beautiful, black-and white photographs, which look like paintings of the Quattrocento, show the actors in meditative poses and in the moments of greatest concentration, in a stark and precise way.