SERGEY BYKOV: AFTER US STEIDL He spent most of his

He spent most of his life in Sweden but early on made France his second home

and medium format color images that crystallize the intensity of Moscow in winter

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

the passage of time and a human quest to overcome disaster

and gesture creates photographs that feel intimate yet mysterious

SERGEY BYKOV: AFTER US STEIDL He spent most of hisABOUT: 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