2018 China Huangbai Mountain International Photography Exhibition is recognized by Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique (FIAP-2018/007), Photographic Society of America (PSA-2018-003), Royal Photographic Society (RPS-2018/6), Global Photographic Union (GPU-L180002-M4G8S12B), International Association of Artistic Photographers (IAAP-2017/034) and Photography and Art Research Institute (PARI), supported by Huangbai Mountain Tourism Develop. Co.Ltd, hosted by Huangbai Mountain Forest Maintenance Center, and co-hosted by Photography and Art Research Institute (PARI), Shangtuf Image and Art Development Co.,LTD, Xinyang Photographers Association and Shangcheng Kimberly Diamond Co. LTD. This exhibition is aimed to promote and develop tourism in Huangbai Mountain Area which in turn to drive economy development, deepen cultural communication and enhance popularity of Huangbai Mountain at home and abroad.
This exhibition is conducted under and approved by regulation and rules of international competitions, awards and acceptances obtained in this exhibition will be taken into account for FIAP Distinctions, PSA Star Rating listings in the worldwide PSA Who’s Who of Photography, credited for PSA Distinctions, and GPU distinction.

Sections (4 images for each section):

Huangbai Mountain International Open Monochrome (Single image, once can upload up to 4 images), FIAP, PSA etc approved. Additional 4 or 8 images in Special Themes only GPU, IAAP, PARI approved)

Huangbai Mountain International Open Color (Single image, once can upload up to 4 images), FIAP, PSA etc approved. Additional 4 or 8 images in Special Themes only GPU, IAAP, PARI approved)

Huangbai Mountain International Nature (Single image, once can upload up to 4 images), FIAP, PSA etc approved. Additional 4 or 8 images in Special Themes only GPU, IAAP, PARI approved)

Huangbai Mountain International Photo Travel (Single image, once can upload up to 4 images), FIAP, PSA etc approved. Additional 4 or 8 images in Special Themes only GPU, IAAP, PARI approved)

<b>Closing date: Feb. 24, 2018
Jury: Mar.10, 2018
Notification: Mar.23th, 2018
Sending EDAS Report: Mar.30
Issue catalog: May 1st
Awards ceremony and exhibition: Apr.29th, 2018
Catalog and awards delivery: May 30th, 2018</b>

Free

The exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to the exhibition rules and conditions.
An entrant’s images will not be presented to the judges consecutively. An entrant’s four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging in that section. Distribution of images shall be in the same round order as submitted by the entrant.
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his own (aliases are not permitted). 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. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced or used “will not be eligible for awards” or inclusion in audio-visuals of the exhibition “and could be subject to disqualification” by the exhibition sponsors.
The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright. Images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the maker. Artwork or computer graphics created by the entrant may be incorporated provided the photographic content predominates, subject to Nature, Photo Travel and Photojournalism divisional restrictions. All final work must be on photographic film, or on electronic file, or on photographic or electronic print material, mounting excepted.
No title or identification of the maker shall be visible anywhere on the face of an image, print mat or mount entered in a PSA Recognized exhibition.

a. This is a digital only exhibition. All final work must be digital file. All digital images must be submitted by upload on the website: www.huangbaishanphoto.com. Do not send your entry by email or by CD. Same image can’t be submitted to more than one section.
b. The entry form must be completed in Western characters. Each image must have a unique title. Camera generated image name and “No Title” are invalid titles. No title or identification of the maker shall be visible anywhere on the face of an image, print mat. Once an image has been accepted in a PSA Recognized exhibition, that same image, or a like “in camera” or a “reproduction” duplicate of that image:
i. May not be re-entered in any section of the same Division Star Ratings class in that exhibition regardless of media, format, or title.
ii. May not be re-titled for entry in any other PSA Recognized exhibition. Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of an image’s title, nor are camera capture filenames.
c. All submitted Photos must not contain any tag(s), signature(s), initial(s), frame, border(s), logo(s) or any other references and/or marks added by the author. The horizontal dimension must be a minimum of 1920 and a maximum of 3840 in JPEG format, no large than 3mb. When enter your submission, please make sure that title, author name, description, nationality, contact information are filed properly in Chinese or English. The organizer will strictly keep the information by the author confidential.

a. The organizer will offer help to photographers who come to Huangbai Mountain for photo opportunity.
b. If the organizer, at its sole discretion, is of the opinion that your images have breached any of the Rules, the organizer has the right to disqualify You from the exhibition, photos that portray or otherwise include inappropriate and/or offensive contents, including nudity, violence and/or any other contents deemed to be against public morals traditions and practices will be disqualified.
c. Submitted Photo(s) must be a single work of original material created and/or taken by the author, must not contain any materials owned or controlled by a third party for which the author does not obtained a license, must not infringe the copyright, trademark, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity. Any breach of Rules and conditions is solely at the responsibility of the author, not the organizer.
d. Upon Submission, the author grants the exhibition a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free, sub-licensable right and license to use, publish, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, create derivative works, distribute, have distributed, print, promote Your submitted Photo(s), in whole or in part, in any form, in all media forms now or hereafter known, anywhere in the world for any purpose, related to the Exhibition and promotion of Huangbai Mountain Scenic Area, the publication in promotional digital and/or printed materials and formats broadcast such as on festival magazines, printed leaflet and brochures, Exhibition website and/or through other public online feeds, promoting subsequent competitions and/or the work of Exhibition generally. Accepted images will be required to supply high resolution images (Minimum of 5MB) within certain timeframe for exhibition and catalog production. The above mentioned rights are only in combination with advert and exhibition, images and their right will not forwarded to sponsors or third parties.
e. The organizer invites experienced Chinese judges as well as international ones to evaluate all submitted entries, and make announcement afterwards. All information related to this exhibition will be announced on the website.
f. Title of submitted image should remain the same should the image has been previously enter to other competitions with PSA patronage.
g. “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.”
BREACH OF CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
If the exhibition determines before, during, or after the judging that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition reserves the right and discretion to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards. Fees may be forfeited in these circumstances.
In order to ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the exhibition may carry out checks on the images to make sure that:
a) the images are the original work of the entrant and
b) the images comply with the rules and definitions as set out in these Conditions of Entry.
This may involve asking the entrant to provide originally captured image(s), with EXIF data intact, by a set deadline. The questioned image(s) of any entrant failing to comply with such a request for the original image(s) may be considered in breach of these Conditions of Entry, and declined. Such entries may be referred to PSA for further investigation of possible ethics violations. PSA retains the right to investigate in any way all complaints/suspicions of breaches of entry conditions, impose sanctions if deemed necessary, void the acceptances of any image found to violate the PSA rules, include the entrant’s name on the list of sanctions provided to Exhibitions, and share such investigations with FIAP. Entrants automatically agree to these terms by the act of entering the Exhibition.

Valter Bernardeschi
Metzakis Manolis
Vladimir Jovanovski
Suo Jiulin
Liu Luyu
Shi Cheng
Guo Jing

Award list in each section:

<b>OPEN COLOR</b>
1xFIAP Gold Medal - 2xFIAP Silver Medal - 3xFIAP Bronze Medal - 2xFIAP HM
1xRPS Gold Medal - 2xRPS Silver Medal - 3xRPS Bronze Medal - 2xRPS HM
1xPSA Gold Medal - 2xPSA Silver Medal - 3xPSA Bronze Medal - 2xPSA HM
1xGPU Gold Medal - 2xGPU Silver Medal - 3xGPU Bronze Medal - 12xGPU HM
1xIAAP Gold Medal - 2xIAAP Silver Medal - 3xIAAP Bronze Medal - 2xIAAP HM
1xPARI Gold Medal+25000RMB - 2xPARI Silver Medal - 3xPARI Bronze Medal - 4xPARI HM



<b>OPEN Monochrome</b>
1xFIAP Gold Medal - 2xFIAP Silver Medal - 3xFIAP Bronze Medal - 2xFIAP HM
1xRPS Gold Medal - 2xRPS Silver Medal - 3xRPS Bronze Medal - 2xRPS HM
1xPSA Gold Medal - 2xPSA Silver Medal - 3xPSA Bronze Medal - 2xPSA HM
1xGPU Gold Medal - 2xGPU Silver Medal - 3xGPU Bronze Medal - 12xGPU HM
1xIAAP Gold Medal - 2xIAAP Silver Medal - 3xIAAP Bronze Medal - 2xIAAP HM
1xPARI Gold Medal+25000RMB - 2xPARI Silver Medal - 3xPARI Bronze Medal - 4xPARI HM



<b>Nature</b>
1xFIAP Gold Medal - 2xFIAP Silver Medal - 3xFIAP Bronze Medal - 2xFIAP HM
1xRPS Gold Medal - 2xRPS Silver Medal - 3xRPS Bronze Medal - 2xRPS HM
1xPSA Gold Medal - 2xPSA Silver Medal - 3xPSA Bronze Medal - 2xPSA HM
1xGPU Gold Medal - 2xGPU Silver Medal - 3xGPU Bronze Medal - 12xGPU HM
1xIAAP Gold Medal - 2xIAAP Silver Medal - 3xIAAP Bronze Medal - 2xIAAP HM
1xPARI Gold Medal+25000RMB - 2xPARI Silver Medal - 3xPARI Bronze Medal - 4xPARI HM


<b>Travel</b>
1xFIAP Gold Medal - 2xFIAP Silver Medal - 3xFIAP Bronze Medal - 2xFIAP HM
1xRPS Gold Medal - 2xRPS Silver Medal - 3xRPS Bronze Medal - 2xRPS HM
1xPSA Gold Medal - 2xPSA Silver Medal - 3xPSA Bronze Medal - 2xPSA HM
1xGPU Gold Medal - 2xGPU Silver Medal - 3xGPU Bronze Medal - 12xGPU HM
1xIAAP Gold Medal - 2xIAAP Silver Medal - 3xIAAP Bronze Medal - 2xIAAP HM
1xPARI Gold Medal+25000RMB - 2xPARI Silver Medal - 3xPARI Bronze Medal - 2xPARI HM


b. Outstanding Photographer Award:
The award ceremony will be held at Huangbai Mountain International photo Festival. 10 outstanding photographers will be awarded and presented with a trophy and 10000RMB cash. Some award winning photographers are exhibitors at the festival.

c. Best Club Award
First Prize: 20000RMB*4
Second Prize: 10000*5

All entries shall conform to the stricter of these definitions for acceptances and awards to be validated by all the International Organizations granting recognition or patronage.
<b>A) Monochrome: </b>
A monochrome image is defined as having varying shades of no more than one color (various shades of that color from very light to very dark) but it may be any single color. Multi-toned images (various shades of two or more colors) and grey scale images with added an accent color are not acceptable in Monochrome Class sections and must be entered in Color Class sections.
<b>B) Color</b>
Image with more than 2 colors can be categorized to this section.
<b>C) Nature: </b>
Nature photography is restricted to the use of the photographic process to depict all branches of natural history, except anthropology and archeology, 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.
<b>D) PHOTO TRAVEL PSA Definition</b>
A Photo Travel image expresses the characteristic features or culture of a land as they are found naturally. There are no geographic limitations. Images from events or activities arranged specifically for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography are not appropriate. Close up pictures of people or objects must include features that provide information about the environment. Techniques that add, relocate, replace or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted. The only allowable adjustments are removal of dust or digital noise, restoration of the appearance of the original scene, and complete conversion to grey scale monochrome. Other derivations, including infrared, are not permitted. All allowed adjustments must appear natural.

Attention: Entries to Open Monochrome section and Open Color section are allowed to be edited in post-production software, yet the image must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity).

Part of the awards winners will be invited to Huangbai Mountain scenic area to participate in its awards ceremony and opening of Huangbai Mountain International Festival, the organizer will provide board and lodging during the festival, yet flights are excluded.

An online version of catalog will be available for download on the website. If one intendeds to purchase a CD catalog, he or she will need to cover 50 RMB postage for a Chinese address or 30 USD of an oversea address. In case of failure delivery or damage caused during delivery, the organizer is free of any responsibilities.

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