In the mid-1980s during my university years when I lived in Moscow, Russia I was shooting black-and-white film with a toy LOMO camera. In the 2000s I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and what began as the series, “Strangers in Moscow” three decades ago emerged into separate ongoing projects. I compile many of these images into books. I take pictures of almost everyone that catches my eye, though I don’t make portraits of every stranger passing me on the street. In most cases people in my pictures are unaware they’ve been photographed. I see it as an honest, visual chronicle of people around me. People in San Francisco look different than passersby in Moscow, London, or Barcelona. As a photographer I like and feel important documenting the place and time I live in. I photograph the streets around me thinking of how we will look back on the present years from now.

My projects:

syuganov.com - 21-st century street photography (if flickr stream is too much for your attention span)

LOMOportfolio.com - street photography from mid-1980s from Moscow and suburbs (Russia)

street-fashion.org - people who obviously thought what to wear that day

portrait-photographer.us - samples of my studio portraiture. If you’d like to collaborate as a model, make-up artist, photo assistant, fashion designer or in any other capacity please email me: studio@portrait-photographer.us

Books:

syuganov.com/books