Sasha Gusov: Collecting the World

<B>Collecting the World collects 25 years of Sasha Gusov’s street photography, exploring the morals, customs and manners of people across the world.</B><BR><BR>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 <I>Vogue</I>, 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.<BR> <BR><B><I>Collecting the World</I></B> 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.<BR> In Collecting the World Gusov juxtaposes toreadors outside a bullring in Spain with synchronized 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.