Aleksey Samsonov is an EUASU expert and a Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Practicing visual sociologist, photographer, artist, and cameraman. He is a researcher at the Memory Institute and a member of its special scientific unit, the Expeditionary Corps. He is also the photo editor of the scientific popular journal "Expedition" and co-founder of Concern BigGuns Photos.

Aleksey co-authored several books on visual sociology and photography, such as "Real Photography", "Invisible Angel or What to Photograph" and “Photography as a Source of Scientific Information” (co-authored with Oleg Maltsev and Maxim Lepskiy). Samsonov  has also served as the director's assistant and cameraman for popular scientific documentaries, such as "Own Religion" and "Athos." 

He is a photographer and cover designer for several scientific journals, such as the German journal “Newsletter on the Results of Scholarly Work in Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy, and Political Science” and French journal "Baudrillard Now."