The grand opening of the "Elements of Science" photo contest exhibition will take place on November 21, 2025, at 7:00 PM Moscow time at the Zodchie cultural space, located at 23 Partizanskaya Street, Moscow. Guests will be admitted from 6:00 PM. Admission is free!
The winners of the competition will be announced at the opening ceremony, and commemorative gifts from the competition partners will be presented. The winners will be congratulated personally by:
1. Alexey Mikhailov, Director of the "Elements of Science" photo contest, PhD in Biology, member of the Union of Photographers of Russia, and lecturer in the Photography Department at Institute of Design and Photography and International College of Arts and Communication;;
2. Anna Geraskina, PhD in Biology, Head of the Laboratory of Structural-Functional Organization and Stability of Forest Ecosystems at the Center for Environmental, Social, and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Head of the Soil Biota and Education Departments at the Carbon RITM consortium (Russian Innovative Technologies for Monitoring for Carbon consortium);
3. Elizaveta Ivantsova, Deputy General Director of the Institute of Environmental Design and Surveying, JSC, a partner of the "Elements of Science" photo contest;
4. A representative of the editorial board of "Science and Life" magazine, a partner of the competition;
5 Nadezhda Pupysheva, head of the Scientific Communications department at the Carbon RITM consortium, associate professor at the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technologies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and curator of the Elements of Science photo contest.
The "Elements of Science" photo exhibition will run from November 18 to December 17 at the Zodchie cultural space. Everyone is welcome to visit: free of charge, no registration required, and admission is free from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM Moscow time.
The photo exhibition is dedicated to science and nature, and will feature photographs by the finalists of the 13th "Elements of Science" competition.
The competition is held annually, and participants include both research fellows with a passion for photography and anyone who enjoys photographing nature.
In 2025, the competition was held in six categories:
Air Element – landscapes and open spaces: drone photography and terrestrial photography;
Water Element – aquatic and near-aquatic ecosystems, underwater photography, underwater landscapes and organisms;
Macrocosm Element – macro- and microphotography;
Human Element – humans who transform the environment and humans who study it;
Life Element – individual organisms, portraits of animals and plants in their environment;
Forest Element – forest ecosystems as communities of closely interconnected elements: vegetation, soil, wildlife, water, and air. A special category of the Carbon RITM consortium.
In 2025, 330 people from 123 cities across Russia, Belarus, France, Germany, China, and the United States participated in the competition. The largest number of applications came from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bryansk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Volgograd. Participants uploaded 1,180 photographs, of which the jury selected 61 works to be displayed at the exhibition.
The jury members were Viktor Tyakht, Nadezhda Muravyova, Natalya Lukina, Sergey Tolmachev, Vitaly Gorshkov, and Dmitry Kochergin.
Competition partners: Science and Life magazine, the Carbon RITM consortium, and the Institute of Environmental Design and Research.
Detailed information about the competition is available on the website: fotoscience.ru