FOAM MAGAZINE #20 / TALENT /ALEXANDER GRONSKY

Alexander Gronsky

Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. He begun work as a photographer at the age of 18 and joined the Photographer.ru Agency in 2003, the same year he was selected as a finalist of the Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands. He moved to Moscow in 2005 where he is still based. In 2008 he was a finalist in the biggest independent Russian award in contemporary art, the Kadinsky Award and in 2009 Alexander Gronsky won the Linhof Young Photographer Award.

Gronsky’s photographs have been published in Ojode Pez, Art+Auction, Intelligent Life, Esquire Russia, National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveller.

Russia is always the main subject of Gronsky’s photographs. By photographing the vast empty landscapes he investigates the notion of psychogeography, the effects of the geographical environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. Less Than One is about the remote regions where the population is less than one person per square kilometre.

More information can be found at alexandergronsky.com

All images from Less Than One (except for image on p8, from the series The Edge) ΠAlexander Gronsky