SERGEY BYKOV: AFTER US STEIDL The New Yorker

The New Yorker

"Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre

half-dreamer

and gesture creates photographs that feel intimate yet mysterious

I photographed my friends over a ten-year period in this secret world that nobody else could have possibly come in and done except someone from the inside like me

SERGEY BYKOV: AFTER US STEIDL The New YorkerABOUT: Interrogating the collision of the outer and inner world, Sergey Bykov juxtaposes 17 short stories with 87 photographs. After Us is a means of reconciling the banal as significant, the ordinary as mysterious, the close as appropriately alien, and the finite as a semblance of the infinite. In his words: A collection of portraits of people I met on my way: relatives, loves, friends, colleagues I used to work with, places I visited. The oldest and