Max Sher is a photographer and visual artist based in Berlin since 2021. Born in St. Petersburg, raised in Siberia and educated in Siberia and France as a linguist, he took up photography in 2006, first as photojournalist, then also as an artist. He is primarily interested in the representation of built environment, architecture, and infrastructure, as well as in investigating local/problematic histories. His work was exhibited as part of solo and group shows at AFF Gallery Berlin, Museum der Trostfrauen (Berlin), Calvert22 Gallery London, Format Festival (UK), Noorderlicht Festival (Netherlands), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MUAR, Triumph Gallery, PERMM, Yeltsin Center, among others. As a photojournalist, Sher has worked on assignments for The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The New York Times Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, and other printed and online media. Sher has published a number of photo books and zines, including
A Remote Barely Audible Evening Waltz (2013),
Palimpsests (2018),
245 Khrushchev Housing Entrances (2018-20),
Dictatorship of the Seven Seas (2018), and
Infrastructures, a joint photobook with Sergey Novikov published in 2019 under their own small publishing brand RecurrentBooks. Sher's latest photo book
Snow will be published by The Velvet Cell publishers in early 2025 with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.