Eric Lusito is a French documentary-style photographer who works on long-term personal projects. He is self-taught. His earliest influences were the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher and Otto Dix.
He was twelve when the fall of the Berlin Wall was shown live on television. In the early 2000s he began to travel through the former communist bloc, from East Germany to Mongolia and from Poland to Kazakhstan. He looked for once-hidden military sites. His book After the Wall: Traces of the Soviet Empire was published by Dewi Lewis in 2009. His photographs have been shown in ten countries and covered by The Guardian, the Financial Times and Le Temps. His work is in the public collections of FRAC Bretagne, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan and MuCEM in Marseille.
At the end of 2021 he met a scientist in Kharkiv, Ukraine, who showed him his laboratory. That visit began a new project about the lesser-known world of science. In 2023 he returned to Kharkiv to document the situation of scientists. The project grew to include Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Romania and other countries. He used to work with a 4x5 inch large-format camera. For this project he used a digital camera, but he still works slowly with a tripod. The book Soviet Scientific Institutes was published by FUEL in 2026. It has 208 pages. A Japanese edition came out with Graphic-sha.
