Max Sher is a photographer 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, Alexey Shchusev Museum of Architecture, 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, Bloomberg Businessweek, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Welt, Le Monde, Libération, and other printed and online media. Sher has published a number of photo books and zines, including 'A Remote Barely Audible Evening Waltz' (Treemedia Publishers, 2013), 'Palimpsests' (Ad Marginem Press, 2018), '245 Khrushchev Housing Entrances' (self-published in 4 editions, 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' was published by The Velvet Cell in 2025 and won silver at the German Photo Book Award (Deutscher Fotobuchpreis) in the Documentary category. From 2021, Sher has been working on a new project titled 'Empire', tracing histories of imperialism within geographical Europe.
