As a physical object, a book gives you an experience of feeling the stories in a way which cannot be delivered online.
I’ve always loved books and produced a number in recent years. Some editions had up to 1000 copies, some other were artist books with just a few copies available.
In this section I share them with you and provide you with the links to order them. I tried to create the real world experience by photographing the books in simple light — like you would see them on your table.
Some of my books are part of the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum — Moscow, the PhotoVisa festival of photography, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the European Museum of Photography in Bratislava and private collections.
Don’t hesitate to message me if you have interest in books and want to know any special detail — it’s always great to chat with book lovers. Or maybe you feel that you have some great content and you want me to make a story out of it? Let’s make a book together.
— Andrey Gordasevich
As a physical object, a book gives you an experience of feeling the stories in a way which cannot be delivered online.
I’ve always loved books and produced a number in recent years. Some editions had up to 1000 copies, some other were artist books with just a few copies available.
In this section I share them with you and provide you with the links to order them. I tried to create the real world experience by photographing the books in simple light — like you would see them on your table.
Some of my books are part of the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum — Moscow, the PhotoVisa festival of photography, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the European Museum of Photography in Bratislava and private collections.
Don’t hesitate to message me if you have interest in books and want to know any special detail — it’s always great to chat with book lovers. Or maybe you feel that you have some great content and you want me to make a story out of it? Let’s make a book together.
— Andrey Gordasevich
A book on contemporary burundian society on the eve of 60 years independence jubilee. Every person who is portrayed explains what is independence for him or her personally and what was the most important story in his or her life. As independence has universal significance, the meaning of the book is broader than the geography of just one country.
A book about the winter life of people at the Kola peninsula known as Russian Lapland.
An artist book as a reflection on the nature of seeing, shot on black&white film in 2009 in the holy city of Dwarka, India, and manually crafted after 12 years in just 25 copies.
A book on the life of a small town of Satka in the Urals, produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Satka — Memory of the Place" in Leica Gallery Vienna.
"Playing with Time" is a photographic story about people who re-enact the Napoleonic wars, who attempt to reconstruct the past as closely as possible, trying to conceal all traces of modern times. The Battle of Borodino took place in 1812, and the world's first photographs were taken in 1826. I was fascinated by the idea that it was impossible to describe the battle through photography. So I created a story about a reconstruction of the battle in order to show how modern life overlaps with the past. In some of the photographs, time has been cleansed away, while other shots are "contaminated" with contemporary objects.
"Quickgold" is a story about the origin of gold as a symbol of wealth and its connection to human labor, condition and identity. It is based on daily life of people involved in gold mining and processing in Peruvian jungle in Madre de Dios province, but it also has a broader meaning. The word "quickgold" is a derivative from "quicksilver", or mercury, used in gold processing.
"Quickgold" project united a Russian photographer Andrey Gordasevich and a Swiss sociologist Nils Krauer.