Born in Chelyabinsk 70, a secret city and nuclear research center in Urals, Russia. He studied at the Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute where he graduated in 1990 with a diploma in experimental nuclear physics. Starting in 1992 he worked as a freelance photographer for publications like The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and Stern in Russia. Kosorukov began working on art and documentary projects in 1998 and has regularly shown at exhibitions in Russia and abroad in cities like Reykjavik, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Paris.