Izerskie Forum Fotografii Stacja Kultury
ul. Dworcowa 1
59-850 Świeradów-Zdrój
respons.: Janusz Jaremen
e-mail: [email protected]

Each participant can submit a maximum of four digital photos in each category. Photos of the participant will be judged in accordance with the FIAP rules.
The competition is divided into three categories:
1. PORTRAIT Color / Monochrome
2. LANDSCAPE Color / Monochrome
3. PHOTOJOURNLISM Color / Monochrome

Closing date: 30.12.2023
Judging: 08.01.2024
Notification: 15.01.2024
Gallery exhibition and vernissage in 3 galleries - "SK Gallery”/ Swieradow Zdroj, “IV Peron Gallery”/ Szklarska Poreba, ”Muzeum Zabawek Gallery”/ Karpacz: 4.04 - 30.06.2024
Sending of awards and catalogues: 30.09.2024

Entry fee is mandatory for all participants and is:
18 € for all three sections, paid by PAYPAL only
The works of the authors who do not pay the fee, would be rejected.

The competition is open to all photographers: amateurs and professionals of all ages and from all over the world. All participants must respect the FIAP rules of procedure. All parts of the image must be photographed by the author, who owns the copyrights to all submitted works. The entries must be photographs taken by the participant on a photosensitive emulsion or in digital technology. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own. The salon will be conducted in accordance to the requirements and practices of FIAP. In order to popularize the event, the organizer reserves the right to reproduce the photos free of charge in the catalogue, press, television, on the organizer's website and in the organizer's Facebook fanpage. By sending his own photographs or files for the exhibition under the patronage of the FIAP, the participant accepts voluntarily and without exception the possibility to check by FIAP the submitted images for compliance with the FIAP regulations. The participant also accepts that FIAP may use any method to check the compliance of the files with the Rules and Regulations.

Authors must fill out online entry form and upload photo online: https://www.salon-fiap.pl

• required image size 1920 x 1080 pixels (the photos will be printed on paper for the exhibition in the gallery)
• file must be saved in JPEG format, RGB mode (not CMYK), the resolution should be 300 dpi, high quality
• please no title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image,
• judges will use monitors 27“ EIZO CX270-BK for evaluation

1. Zygmunt Trylanski - EFIAP/s (Poland)
2. Barbara Schmidt - EFIAP (Germany)
3. Jozef Danyi - EFIAP (Czech Republic)
4. Vladimir Jovanovski - MPSA, GPU HERMES, RISF5 (Macedonia)
5. Reha Bilir - ESFIAP (Turkey)

• FIAP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals, six ribbons in each section, Blue Badge for the best author
• IAAP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals, three ribbons in each section
• FRP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section

FIAP Procedure
"With the sole act of submitting his / her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP; that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking; that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations. "

Monochrome definition. An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of gray which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a greyscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A greyscale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi-toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work.

The winning photos and the exhibition catalog will be presented during the public vernissage of post-competition exhibitions in:
1. "Stacja Kultury Gallery” – Swieradow Zdroj: 06.06.2024 - Award ceremony and opening of the "Landscape" exhibition.
3. ”Muzeum Zabawek Gallery” – Karpacz: 07.06.2024 - Award ceremony and opening of the " Photojournalism " exhibition.
2. “IV Peron Gallery” – Szklarska Poreba: 14.06.2024 - Award ceremony and opening of the "Portrait" exhibition.
All awarded authors of the post-contest exhibitions in will be sent a colour printed catalogue. Each entrants will receive pdf version of catalogue via e-mail.