nterrogating the collision of the outer and inner world, Sergey Bykov juxtaposes 17 short stories with 87 photographs . After Us is a means of reconciling the banal as significant, the ordinary as mysterious, the close as appropriately alien, and the finite as a semblance of the infinite. In his words: A collection of portraits of people I met on my way: relatives, loves, friends, colleagues I used to work with, places I visited. The oldest and the biggest part of my work. My direct experience of facing the reality around me, brought back from the past, the waves of my memory, a chain of flashes of light.