This work has been exhibited at the PARIS PHOTO 2022 Polka boot

In Pastoral (2008-2012), Alexander Gronsky intended on finding a perfect world in which man and nature were in harmony, and he explored this relationship in the suburbs of Moscow.
"I had the need to find a place that was neither natural nor manmade: the urban periphery, a frontier between habitat and chaos. Zones that are neither urban nor rural. Places that are difficult to give names to."

In this series, the Estonian photographer displays how the inhabitants of Moscow change when they leave their city. He equally gives a new definition to this rural universe: picnics on riverbanks, lovers meeting, bathing on the shores of the metropolis, bizarre tanning sessions. The artist suggests that in these rural scenes we forget the austere, ominous shadows of buildings, the concrete, and the construction sites.

The people within the photographs appear disconnected from a reality which is recalled in the somber shadows of the buildings that hover in the distance.

The Edge (2009) is a documentary essay by Alexander Gronsky of Moscow in the snow. These wide and hostile expanses are a theater presenting stories without drama, and rather those of isolated and silent lives.
In this still universe, each object and subject is an element of a dehumanized landscape; a solemn atmosphere that devours all intimacy and leaves room only for solitude and meditation.

The Edge (2009) is a documentary essay by Alexander Gronsky of Moscow in the snow. These wide and hostile expanses are a theater presenting stories without drama, and rather those of isolated and silent lives.
In this still universe, each object and subject is an element of a dehumanized landscape; a solemn atmosphere that devours all intimacy and leaves room only for solitude and meditation.