Max Sher

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. Sher has published a number of photo books and zines, including 'A…

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. 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.