ABOUT

Sanges is known for cinematic analogue photography that stages elaborate narrative scenes influenced by early cinema, surrealism, and theatrical performance. Working exclusively with film and traditional darkroom processes, each image is hand-printed as a gelatin silver print in carefully controlled editions, reinforcing the work’s material and archival integrity.

Alongside editorial collaborations with publications including Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, Black+White Photography Magazine, Aesthetica, and The Times, and campaigns for brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Agent Provocateur, and Cutler & Gross, Sanges has developed a distinct body of work that blurs the boundaries between fashion, portraiture, and narrative photography.

His work is held in permanent collections in the United States, including the Center for Creative Photography and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and has been exhibited internationally. Selections from the One Step Closer portrait series were exhibited at the Dimbola Museum and Galleries alongside the work of Lee Miller, with accompanying BBC coverage.

Working across both still and moving image, Sanges is also an award-winning filmmaker. His film Circumstances received Best Art Film at the Portobello Film Festival, London, and Best Experimental Film at the Open Cinema Film Festival in St Petersburg. Additional film works include Sugar, Meet Me in Winter, Music Sound Machine, Sonnambula.

His photographic work has been published in a number of monographs and artist books, including Circumstances, Venus, Wild, Erotic Photography, Love Lust Desire, and The Cutting Room, reflecting the narrative and sequential nature of his practice and its relationship to cinema.

At the core of Sanges’ work is an exploration of image-making as a form of ‘imaginary cinema’ — where each photograph exists as part of a larger, unfolding narrative world, rich with atmosphere, tension, and psychological depth.

"There is something remarkable about those pictures, something  unforeseen, something of new"                 - Patrice Leconte

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025: Reveries by Sanges - Robertaebasta, Belgravia London

2025: Dimbola Museum - One Step Closer By Sanges

2017: Wunderkamera by Sanges - The Hospital Club, London

Von Hagens 'Body Worlds' by Sanges - Natural Science Museum, Gratz, Austria

2016: Unexpected by Sanges - D -Contemporary, Mayfair, London

Von Hagen 'Body Worlds' by Sanges - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle,Stuttgart, Germany

2015: Von Hagens 'Body Worlds' by Sanges alongside Bodyworlds - Oud Sint - Jan (Old St.John's) Site - Bruges

2014: Von Hagens 'Body Worlds' by Sanges, Alongside Bodyworlds - Kleine Olympia Halle, Munich

Hay Hill Gallery, London

2012: Phantasmagoria - Proud Gallery, London

Beyond Decadence - Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, Amsterdam

2010: Big Scenes - Hay Hill Gallery, London

Big Scenes - Hackney Empire, London

Beyond Decadence - Arts Centre, Winsdor

2009: Beyond Decadence - Merchant Archive

Decadence, Everyman, London

Melting Times – Blacks

2006: Savile Row - B Store

2004: Purity - Cobden Club

2002: Purity - Wellington Club

2001: Hidden Light - Blake

1999: Hidden Light - ICI

1991: Fotografie - San Lorenzo, Rome (Italy)

1990: Still life - Calcata, Rome (Italy)

MAGAZINES

2015: Normal (France)

2014: Lomography (Germany)

Wonderland (UK)

Sc- exhibition (Germany)

Aesthetica (UK)

Te Magazin (Germany)

2013: Photo Digest By Snoecks (Belgium)

Dahse (USA)

Wall Street International

2012: Wall Street International

Sunday Times (UK)

Wonderland (UK)

Esquire (Netherlands)

De Telegraaf (Netherlands)

LXRY (Netherlands)

Kunstkrant (Netherlands)

Artactuel (France)

Fotoforum (Germany)

Elle (Netherlands)

Penthause (Netherlands)

Black and White Photography (UK)

Another (UK)

Fault (UK)

Aesthetica (UK)

Metropolitan-Eurostar (UK-France)

2010: British Journal of Photography (UK)

Harper’s Bazaar (UK)

Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Esquire (UK)

Zoom (Italy)

Azart (France)

Shots (USA)

Silvershotz (Australia)

La Fotografia (Spain)

Snoeks (Belgium)

2009: Sur La Terre (Swiss)

Europa (UK)

2008: La Repubblica (Italy)

2007: Head Magazine (UK)

2006: Fuk.co.uk (UK)

Pozytyw (Poland)

2005: B&W Magazine (USA)

Eyemazing (Amsterdam)

2004: Photo (Italy)

Fotoit (Italy)

2003: The Magazine (Mexico)

2001: Zoom (Italy)

2000: B&W (USA, California)

1999: Black & White (Australia)

Photo (Italy)

La fotografia Actual (Spain)

D-Repubblica delle Donne (Italy)

La fotografia Actual (Spain)

Pure (UK)

What’s on (UK)

1998: Photo (Italy)

Katalog (Denmark)

Black & White (Australia)

Progresso Fotografico (Italy)