Alexander Gronsky is notable for his photographic practice forces on landscapes of contemporary Russia, and his works are shown internationally. After the career as a press photographer in Russia and the area of the former Soviet Union since 1999, he came to focus on documentary works from a point of his personal view since 2008. Refering to himself as a landscape photographer, he focuses on vast spaces and investigates how local populations are impacted by the surrounding environment.

In his most of works, he is exploring the very notion of border with composition of horizontal line. At the same time, the borders between suburbs and cities, between infrastructures as heritage of socialism and natural wild, between personal and public space, and between live and dead coexist in a photograph, and they also show the landscape of the land as nondescript places without border.

Born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. Currently based in Riga, Latvia. After press photographer, he has forced on landscapes. He received the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2009), Foam Paul Huf Award (2010), World Press Photo (2012). His works were shown, including The Edge (Aperture Foundation, NY, 2010), Alexander Gronsky (FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, 2010), Pastoral (Photographer.ru Gallery, Moscow, 2011), Mountains & Waters (Polka Gallery, Paris, 2012).