PHOTO SALON KICEVO is international contest of art photography, organized by EPS Art Group from Skopje, North Macedonia.

The contest is divided into the following sections:
• OPEN MONOCHROME
• OPEN COLOR
• PEOPLE
• WOMAN
• PHOTOJOURNALISM
• STREET
• NUDE
• SHADOWS
• NATURE
• MINIMALISM
• MOTION
• EMOTIONS

Closing date: March 2 2025
Judging date: March 16 2025
Notification date: March 23 2025
Delivery date: April 22 2025
Delivery date: May 4 2025
Gallery publish date: May 4 2025

The entry fee depends on the number of sections the participant enters. The fees are as follows:
• 1-3 sections = 5 EUR
• 4-6 sections = 10 EUR
• 7-9 sections = 15 EUR
• 10-12 sections = 20 EUR

The entry fee can be paid in the following ways:
• through our website: https://photogroup8.com/salon/
• PAYPAL ACCOUNT: [email protected]

Images from participants who have not paid the entry fee will not be considered.

IMAGE AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
This exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the Sponsor or the Exhibition Organizers, in their reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these ES-COE. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.
Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is on the PSA Penalties List for Ethics Violation. Entry fees are not refundable in these circumstances.
Image creation and ownership
In all sections of the exhibition, images must originate as photographs made by the entrant. They may not incorporate identifiable images produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, replacement skies, or stock images). Images created in whole or in part by image creation software (frequently called ‘AI images) are not allowed. Editing or alteration of images is permitted within the limits specified in the relevant section definitions that are available here https://psa-photo.org/page/division-definitions
Any person submitting or attempting to submit a totally AI generated image that does not begin with a light capture from the maker, from any Photographic Society of America exhibition, social media, event, or publication, other than for editorial purposes, shall be prohibited from PSA for a period of from 3 years to life.
PSA Star Ratings: To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country exactly the same way in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to another country. Using ones name differently in different exhibition exposes the entrant to the risk that many of their acceptances may not be recognized by PSA Star Ratings.
Reproduction: The entrant permits the sponsors to reproduce all or part of the entered material free of charge for publication and/or display in media related to the exhibition. This may include low resolution posting on a website. The Photographic Society of America (PSA) may request specific permission from entrants to reproduce entered images in its educational materials. The terms of that permission will be mutually agreed between the entrant and PSA except in the circumstances where the entered image is found to breach the PSA Ethics Policy. In those circumstances the image may be reproduced by PSA, without the entrants further permission, for educational purposes to illustrate serious exhibition rule violations. For those reproductions, the entrants name will be withheld.
Entries will not be accepted from entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced in materials related to the exhibition. The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright
Re-use of accepted images: Any image that has been accepted in this exhibition, past or present, may not be entered again in the same Division Star Ratings Class in any future instances of this exhibition. It may, of course, be entered in any other PSA recognised exhibitions but must always have the same title. Re-titling in another language is not allowed.
Entry: An Entry consists of, up to and including, four (4) images entered by a single entrant into the same Section. An entrant may only enter a specific Section once. Entrants may not enter identical or similar images into the same section or different sections of the same exhibition. Similar is defined as almost identical in subject, composition, props, lighting, or technique so that a reasonable person viewing the entries together would decide the entrant has duplicated the previous image except for minor changes.
Titles: Each image must have a unique title that relates to the content of the image. That unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an identical Image into any and all PSA-Recognized exhibitions. Titles must be 35 characters or fewer. No titles may be visible to the judges, and nothing in the image may identify the entrant. Titles may not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames such as IMG 471). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; or include words such as “untitled” or “no title”. Titles may not consist solely of numbers unless those numbers are prominently contained within the image, such as a contestant number in a race.
Color and Monochrome:
Color and Monochrome images from the same capture that share substantial pictorial content in common will be considered the same image and must be given the same title.
The Exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the PSA
An entrants images will not be presented to the judges consecutively. An entrants four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section. Distribution of images will be in the same round order as submitted by the entrant. At no stage will a judge be able to view all the entrants images together.

Photographs must be in JPEG format, with dimensions 1920x1080 pixels at 300, JPEG compression (if Photoshop used for export): 7-12, file size maximum 4 Mb. Each image must have a unique title. Titles must not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames). No title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image.
The photographs of participants with the application are submitted in these ways:
- uploading thought our website: https://photogroup8.com/salon/
- by e-mail: [email protected]

The judging will be done by remote online judging. All judges will be using equipment capable of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution. Judges will be using color calibrated equipment. Target Range will be max 30%.

• Clea Kyprianou; , [sections to judge: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L]
• Christos Acheriotis ; , [sections to judge: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L]
• Aleksandar Tomovski ; , [sections to judge: A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L]

The judges of the event will present the following awards:
12 x IAAP Gold Diploma,
12 x IAAP Silver Diploma,
12x IAAP Bronze Diploma
36 x IAAP E Diploma
12 x NPUM Gold E-Certificate
12 x NPUM Silver E- Certificate
12 x NPUM Bronze E - Certificate
36 x NPUM E-Diploma

Notification cards will be sent by email.

Jovan Naumoski
Karposevo Vostanie 3/1-14
1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

email: [email protected]
website: https://photogroup8.com/salon/
software provided by IAAP: [email protected]