18th International Salon of Photography BANJA LUKA 2024
University Photo Cinema Club - Banja Luka

The contest is divided into the following sections:
• Open - Color
• Open - Monochrome
• Nature - Color or Monochrome
• Life - Color or Monochrome

Closing date: 29 September 2024
Judging date: 13 October 2024
Notification date: 27 October 2024
Exhibition public showings : 10.11. - 10.12.2024
Delivery date: 12 December 2024
Gallery publish date: 12 December 2024

Participation fee is mandatory for all participants and is 17 Euros. The fee is unique for all themes.

Group Entries - Discount Rates (% of Total Fee): 5-9 authors: 10 %, 10-20 authors: 15 %, 21-30 authors: 20% and 30 authors: 25 % Discount.
The fee can also be paid via PayPal ( [email protected] ), or can be sent along with the CD and the entry form.
The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.

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 Conditions of Entry. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.

Image Creation
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.

Certification:
By virtue of submitting an image, the entrant certifies the work as his or her own. Images may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, images or art by others downloaded from the Internet). Aliases are not allowed.


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.
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.

Alteration and Computer Generation Subject to Divisional restrictions (particularly Nature, Photo Travel, and Photojournalism) images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the entrant; adjustments to enhance images or creatively modify images are allowed providing the underlying photograph is retained in a way that is obvious to the viewer. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer, and must be the sole work of the entrant.

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.

Titles:
Each image must have a unique title that is a description of the image. That unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an identical Image into. 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.

To participate in 18th International Salon of Photography BANJA LUKA 2024 the authors apply with black & white and color photographs. Maximum number of works is four (4) photographs per theme, maximum dimensions 1920 pixels per horizontal side and maximum 1080 pixels per vertical side, in 300 dpi, JPG, compression 7-10. The maximum total size of the photo must not exceed 4 megabites.
For file names should be used only English alphabet. The file name should be the name of the photo.
Upload at the website: www.perspective.ufkk.rs.ba , or send the works on a CD with the completed entry form to the address of the Salon Chairman.

NOTICE: When an entrant fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry the entrant will see a feature to affirm he or she has read these Conditions of Entry when he or she fills out the entry form. If the entrant does not so affirm the entry will not be submitted.

To participate in this contest entrants will apply with black & white or color works. The maximum number of photographs per section is 4. No title or identification of the maker shall be written anywhere on the face of an image.
Photographs must be sent in digital form, as a picture file with dimension 1920x1080 pixels at 300 dpi. The maximum file size is 4 Mb.

Milorad Kascelan, EFIAP/s
Milena Erceg, AFIAP
Jovica Panic, AFIAP

- FIAP special prize for the best author.
A) Open (color):
FIAP gold medal, IAAP gold medal , AUFBiH – gold, silver and bronze medal, SALON gold medal, 2 FIAP Hon. Mention, 2 IAAP diploma, 3 AUFBiH praise, 3 UFKK praise and 3 SALON praise.
B) Open (monochrome):
FIAP gold medal, IAAP silver medal, AUFBiH – gold, silver and bronze medal, SALON gold medal, 2 FIAP Hon. mention, 1 IAAP diploma, 3 AUFBiH praise, 3 UFKK praise and 3 SALON praise.
C) Nature (color or monochrome):
FIAP gold medal, IAAP bronze medal, AUFBiH – gold, silver and bronze medal, SALON gold medal, 2 FIAP Hon. mention, 1 IAAP diploma, 3 AUFBiH praise, 3 UFKK praise and 3 SALON praise.
D) Life (color or monochrome):
FIAP gold medal, AUFBiH – gold, silver and bronze medal, SALON gold medal, 2 FIAP Hon. Mention, 2 IAAP diploma, 3 AUFBiH praise, 3 UFKK praise and 3 SALON praise.

“By 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.”

PICTURES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THIS SALON!
It is reminded that all parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. Offenders will be sanctioned for life!


FIAP definition of the black and white photography (monochrome)
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category; such a work can be reproduced in black and white in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage. On the other hand a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

Definition of Nature Photography
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archaeology, in such a fashion that a well-informed person will be able to identify the subject material and certify its honest presentation. The story telling value of a photograph must be weighed more than the pictorial quality while maintaining high technical quality. Human elements shall not be present, except where those human elements are integral parts of the nature story such as nature subjects, like barn owls or storks, adapted to an environment modified by humans, or where those human elements are in situations depicting natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal waves. Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible. Photographs of human created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.
No techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove pictorial elements except by cropping are permitted. Techniques that enhance the presentation of the photograph without changing the nature story or the pictorial content, or without altering the content of the original scene, are permitted including HDR, focus stacking and dodging/burning. Techniques that remove elements added by the camera, such as dust spots, digital noise, and film scratches, are allowed. Stitched images are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural. colour images can be converted to greyscale monochrome. Infrared images, either direct- captures or derivations, are not allowed.
Images used in Nature Photography competitions may be divided in two classes: Nature and Wildlife.
Images entered in Nature sections meeting the Nature Photography Definition above can have landscapes, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant organisms as the primary subject matter. This includes images taken with the subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical gardens, aquariums and any enclosure where the subjects are totally dependent on man for food.

Notification cards will be sent by email.
On-line PDF Catalog will be available to all participants on the website: www.ufkk.rs.ba
The organizer can use the exhibited works for reproduction in the catalogue and for promotion exhibition without paying any author’s fee.
The organizer will take all possible care while handling the emails, awards and catalogs, however will assume no liability for damages and loses during shipment.

Dragan Prole, EFIAP/d3, MF AUFBiH
Kosovke djevojke 5
78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia And Herzegovina

email: [email protected]
website: https://salon.ufkk.rs.ba/