SASHA GUSOV (1960-)

“Gusov’s photographs are lightning fissures, apertures, openings. They are neat as the bullet marks made in the moving target of time by a master of craft, and the weird and hopeless dawn that streams through these clustered pinholes is the light of the future.”
Andrei Navrozov

Russian photographer Sasha Gusov was introduced to photography at the age of 13 by his uncle, who was a school photographer. But it was only after he discovered the British Journal of Photography that he became motivated to carve out a photographic career for himself. In 1989 he moved to London to pursue his dream, initially supporting himself as a dishwasher and photographic printer, and taking publicity portraits of then-unknown actors. His first major project (images of the Bolshoi Ballet) appeared in BJP in 1993, and from there Gusov was catapulted into the limelight with commissions from English National Ballet, The Daily Telegraph and The Times. He has subsequently worked all over the world as an internationally recognised and highly regarded photographer.

Publications include:
Belarus: Terra Incognita (Hurtwood Press, 2010) with Lord Bell.
Locusts (Thames & Hudson, 2008)
Shooting Images (Hurtwood Press, 2001)

Click here to see a gallery of images by Sasha Gusov