The State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO invites you to attend the annual conference “Photography. Image. Document”, which will take place on November 19–21, 2025, at ROSPHOTO (St. Petersburg, 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, Conference Hall, 3rd Floor).

The event will be broadcast online on VKontakte. The full recording of the conference will be available for viewing at any time.

THE CONFERENCE WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

• Photography of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War;
• History and Theory of photography;
• Color in Photography;
• Attribution and Expertise;
• Restoration, Conservation, and Preservation of Photographic Documents;
• Current Issues of Copyright and Exclusive Rights; Intellectual Property;
• Methodology of Visual Culture Research;
• Photographic Document and Modern Technologies;
• Reviews, Surveys, and Iconography.

Alongside the conference, ROSPHOTO publishes the scientific almanac “Photography. Image. Document.” The almanac is a peer-reviewed edition issued once a year and is included in the National Electronic Library (Russian Science Citation Index, RSCI) system.
Following independent peer review, a special issue of the almanac “Photography. Image. Document” will be prepared under the aegis of the journal Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSN ONLINE: 1555-6492, IF = 0.4, Q2), indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.

We invite you to take part in the preparation of the 15th issue of the almanac, scheduled for publication in 2026.