 The Azerbaijan Photographers Union was registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Azerbaijan Republic on the 20 November 1998 by certificate number 1073.At the beginning of 1990, with the collapse of the USSR, all working structures became worthless and it became apparent that there was need of an organization in which professional and amateur photographers — all those who are devoted to photographic art — would join together.At that time a serious, uniting moment in the organization's establishment became preparation and holding of the "Photographers of Azerbaijan" exhibition in Nantes, France in November 1995, where 105 works by 24 photographers were presented.