Named the best USSR – wide photo club of 1987, and winning 11 gold medals at VDNKh fairs, over the 18 years of its existence Zerkalo gave rise to a galaxy of talented artists whose works still influence the state of Russian photography today. So-called “artistic documentary” photography was the prevailing genre at the photo club, although two others emerged alongside with it: formalist and reportage. Artistic documentary genre was represented by Pyotr Lebedev, Sergei Podgorkov, Boris Mikhalevkin, Lyudmila Ivanova, Lyudmila Tabolina, Yevgeny Mokhorev, Alexander Kitayev, Andrei Usov. The “formalist” wing was made up of Yuri Matveyev, Sergei Arsentiev, Alexey Titarenko, Gennady Tkalich, Andrey Chezhin, Valentin Kapustin and Dmitry Shneerson. Boris Bulgakov, Alexander Nikolayev, Anatoly Medvednikov, Yevgeny Raskopov and others were mostly engaged in the “reportage” photography.