FotoDepartament
2006 — 2026 · 20 years

An institution that has spent twenty years thinking photography, but is not reducible to it

A study of contemporary photography at the intersection of art, media and the digital environment. Exhibitions, education, a gallery, publishing and a living conversation about how the image — and our awareness through it — is changing.

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Portfolio Review with Curators
Sat, Jul 4
mediation · registration · from 1000 ₽
How Does Art Happen in Photography?
Jul 5, Sun 11.00
mediation · registration · from 1000 ₽
How Does Art Happen in Photography?
Jul 9, Thu 11.00
mediation · registration · from 1000 ₽
How Does Art Happen in Photography?
Jul 11, Sat 11.00
Our projects
Events and discourse exhibitions, lectures, mediations, programmes Projection and Routes an online education platform and intensives Gallery original and limited-edition prints by Russian photographers Shop 2500+ books on photography and theory / online and in St. Petersburg Authors and projects Attention Hub!, process and photo projects Presence a festival of contemporary photography Reading Room 2000+ rare editions, photobooks and magazines on contemporary photography About discourse, team and collaboration
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Regular intensives on artistic thinking · Projection

Routes

A programme of events and discussions * since 2025

Photography under Principles

An ongoing open call for new projects from photographers

We accept new projects

Meetings on the meaning and value of photography, arranged as an engaged conversation

Mediations. How Does Art Happen in Photography?

Consultations for authors · Offline and online

Portfolio Review for Authors

Exhibitions and special projects for companies, authors and institutions

Curating exhibitions and special projects

Shop books
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Hoda Afshar. Speak The Wind (Signed Copy)
Alessandra Sanguinetti. The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams
Victor Burgin. Five Pieces for Projection
Richard Billingham. Ray’s a Laugh
Wendy Ewald. Portraits and Dreams
Emmanuelle Andrianjafy. Nothing’s in Vain
Kristina Jurotschkin. Nothing But Clouds (Signed Copy)
C. Fausto Cabrera & Alec Soth. The Parameters of Our Cage
Exteriors. Annie Ernaux and photography
Rosalind Fox Solomon. A Woman I Once Knew
Brad Feuerhelm. Dein Kampf
Mari Katayama. Synthesis
Vanessa Winship. And Time Folds
Raymond Meeks. George Weld. The Inhabitants
Alec Soth. I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (signed by the author)
Exhibitions, festivals and events,
that we have held
Vitaly Severov. Memories of the Future
FotoDepartament · Petersburg, Grazhdanskaya St. 13–15, Bertgold Center, ground floor · daily 12:00–20:00 — 2025
Dmitry Pechurin. With Love to the Motherland: Guidelines
FotoDepartament · Petersburg, Grazhdanskaya St. 13–15, Bertgold Center, ground floor · daily 12:00–20:00 — 2025
Denis Shulepov. The Practice of Nostalgia
FotoDepartament · Petersburg, Grazhdanskaya St. 13–15, Bertgold Center, ground floor · daily 12:00–20:00 — 2025
Vitaly Severov. Memories of the Future
Moscow, PENNLAB gallery · Winzavod CCA, 4th Syromyatnichesky Lane 1/8 — 2024
Irina Zadorozhnaya. My Limbo Land
Small Hall of the Catherine Assembly · Petersburg, Griboedov Canal Emb. 88–90 (Petersburg-Concert) — 2024
Collectivity
Sevkabel Port, Kozhevennaya Line 40, St. Petersburg — 2019
Large-Scale Reconstruction. Body. Time. Context
Bertgold Center, Grazhdanskaya St. 13–15, St. Petersburg — 2018
Young Photography 2017
Bertgold Center, Grazhdanskaya St. 13–15, St. Petersburg — 2017
Yuri Gudkov. Watch <em>What You See</em>
FotoDepartament, Vosstaniya St. 24 / 2nd courtyard, ground floor / “Fligel” space — 2016
Fotoparade in Uglich 2016 · art photography exhibitions
Fotoparade in Uglich — 2016
Process
2006 — 2026 20 years of activity go to the timeline →
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Photography under Principles A programme of events and discussions * since 2025 Routes Regular intensives on artistic thinking · Projection We accept new projects An ongoing open call for new projects from photographers Mediations. How Does Art Happen in Photography? Meetings on the meaning and value of photography, arranged as an engaged conversation Portfolio Review for Authors Consultations for authors · Offline and online Curating exhibitions and special projects Exhibitions and special projects for companies, authors and institutions
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Routes — intensives in artistic thinking and photographic practice. 8 tracks, starting in summer 2026.
Enrolment for new groups is open

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