This is the page for the 2025 competition. Please visit the new URL: https://theiaap.com/e/children26/


The Organizer of the 19th International Photo Contest „All Children of the World” Pacanow 2025 (here and after referred to as the Competition) is the European Fairy Tale Center named after Koziolek Matolek in Pacanow, Kornela Makuszynskiego 1 street, 28-133 Pacanow.

„ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD”
The subject of the Competition is presenting the life of a child in the contemporary world. None of the photographs can’t violate the child’s dignity or right to privacy.

Opening: May05, 2025
Closing: September 5, 2025 at 1 p.m
Jury assembly: September 19-21, 2025
Results announcement: October 19, 2025
Exhibition oncompetition results during the gala: September19, 2025-September30, 2026
Shipment of the prizes: November28, 2025

The deadline for sending with the e-mails to the Organizers works expires on September 5, 2025 at 1 p.m.If an incomplete application is sent (no photo, no confirmation of entry fee) or the application is completed after the above deadline, the entry fee paid will not be refunded.

The Organizers charge a registration fee. Foreign participants: €12 or $13 paid via PayPal; domestic participants: PLN50via PayPal, to the following e-mail: [email protected] is a possibility to pay via a traditional bank transfer. The transfer should be made to: Europejskie Centrum Bajki im. Koziołka Matołka
w Pacanowie, bank name: NBS SolecZdrój O/Pacanów, account number: 94 8517 0007 0040 0400 3001 0004 – (transfer title “All the Children of the World”). Those who want to receive an invoice for the additional fee, please provide your contact details.

The competition is directed to all photographers, with the exception of employees of the European Tale Center in Pacanow and their closest relatives (spouse, ascendant, descendant, siblings, relatives in the same line or degree, persons in the relationship of adoption, as well as persons remaining in common cohabitation or remaining in such a legal or factual relationship that may raise reasonable doubts as to their independence or possible links with the Organizer, in the context of preparing and conducting the competition).

Any person without any age limit may participate in the competition. If the competition participant is an underage, the entry for the competition is submitted together with a parent or legal guardian.

The aim of the Competition is popularization of the photography as an art.

Each participant may submit a maximum of 4 photos for the competition.

All of the photographs registered to the Competition are accepted only in the digital form. They shall be sent as files.
The files shall be:
• 1920 px of the longer edge and of 300 dpi resolution
• not bigger than 3MB
• saved as jpg with the compression of 8-10
• the file name: First name, surname, country, title, lp. jpg; the photograph cannot have any frames

The photos should be sent along with the entry form and confirmation of the entry fee using the form on the competition website www.foto.centrumbajki.pl or by e-mail: [email protected].

The registration of the photographs to the Competition is equivalent with a Participant’s statement that they possess personal copyrights and unlimited property rights, are authorized to distribution of the image of those portrayed in the photograph, as well as they assume a responsibility on themselves for any legal defect of the registered photographs, including any lack of the rights mentioned above.

Submitting a photo to the competition is tantamount to granting to the Organizer the permission to display the submitted photo free of charge during the competition exhibition and to publish the submitted photo on the Organiser's websites and social media. Along with obtaining the permission referred to above, the Organizer also obtains free of charge dependent rights to the photograph sent by the Participant, including the right to dispose, distribute and use the elaborations of this photograph,
in the scope, in the fields of exploitation and under the conditions specified above.

Final conclusions
1. By submitting photos to the Competition and on the day of receiving them by the Organizer, the Participant grants the Organizer a free-of-charge and unexclusive licence for the use of the photographs without any time territorial restrictions, in the following fields of exploitation:
a) Usage the photographs which were sent in any advertising and informational materials related, including the Competition catalogue, on web pages and in press information related to popularization of the competition;
b) Sending a signed registration form for the Competition is the confirmation
of reading and accepting the Rules and Regulations by the Participant and well as an agreement to publish their personal data.
2. In the matters not covered by these Regulations, the appropriate Polish law applies. In the case of differences in the interpretation of the foreign language versions
of these Terms regulations, the Polish language version shall prevail.
3. According to the article 13 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and Council, (UE) 2016/679, April 27, 2016, on data protection and privacy for all individuals and repeal of the Regulation 95/46/WE (“RODO”) we inform about the rules concerning your personal data:
The Administrator of your personal data is: Matolek the Billy Goat European Tale Centre in Pacanow; The Administrator appointed a Personal Data Protection Inspector who all interested parties may contact with in all the matters relating
to the processing of personal data. The contact details are: [email protected]. The Administrator processes for purpose of running and service the Competition only the data made directly available by the participants. The aims and grounds for the participants’ data processing:
• onclusion and performance of an obligation (from the public promise, which the Competition is) and taking action before entering into such an obligation at the request of the data subject (art.6 pass.1 l.b GDPR);
• answering the questions of people interested in participating in the Competition as well as regarding complaints related to the Competition (art. 6 pass. 1 l. b, GDPR);
• where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject, especially in accountancy and financial reporting (art. 6 pass. 1 letter c, GDPR) as well as for the archive purposes and for the purposes of the legitimate interests of establishment, claims, protection against claims (art. 6 pass. 1 l f, GDPR). The data may also be accessed, for the abovementioned purposes, by the Administrator’s sub-contractors, e.g. law or IT companies. The recipients of the personal data may be banks, payment operators, transportation companies, postal services. Complying with the current law, the personal data of the Contestants may be provided by the administrator to authorities entitled to receive such data according to the law, i.e. courts, bailiffs, or law enforcement authorities; providing that they file
a demand based on a binding legal basis. The Participants’ data will be held by the Administrator through the entire time scheduled in the Competition’s Agenda, and next for not longer than 5 years, due to the accountancy requirements. Providing the personal data indicated on the registration form is voluntary, however it is the condition for registration in the Competition done by the Organizer. According to GDPR, the subject of the data is entitled at any time to: 1. access their data and receive a copy of it, 2. correct the data, 3. remove it or limit the data processing, 4. complain against data processing, 5. move the data, 6. complain to the supervisory authority.
The Administrator does not use for data processing any automated decision making software, including profiling.
4. Participation in the competition is voluntary. The Organizer does not provide for reimbursement of the costs of participation in the competition.
5. In the event of a change in the e-mail address or other data, the Participant of the competition is obliged to notify immediately the Organizer, under pain of the Organizer's liability for the consequences of failure to deliver the correspondence or prize to the Participant.
6. The Organizer declares that the competition is not a game of chance, raffle, mutual bet, promotional lottery, the result of which depends on chance, or any other form of game of chance provided for in the Act of November 19, 2009 on gambling games (i.e. Journal of Laws of 2023, item 227).
7. The law applicable to all legal relationships arising in connection with the organization and participation in the Competition is Polish law.
8. Disputes relating to and arising from the Competition will be resolved by the common court competent for the seat of the Organizer.

It is forbidden to use photomontage which is connecting various elements of the photographs which come from different files or applying changes to the original composition through adding or removing elements of the photo (excl. cropping).

The works registered to the previous editions of this Competition, not complying with these Terms and Conditions, or violating the law will not be qualified to the current edition of the Competition.

The works will be evaluated by a three-person Jury, appointed by the Organizer:
• Tomasz Sobczak- EFIAP, AFRP, TTF, AIPS, KDS (head of the commission),
• Kamila Wiśniewska-Hałka-EFIAP/b, AFRP,
• Aleksandra Stachniak- Director of the European Tale Centre.
The Jury make the qualification of the works to award the prizes.
The Jury meeting will take place in September 19-21, 2025.The Organizer reserves the right to change the date of the Jury meeting.
The Jury decision is incontestable and there is no possibility of appeal.

Prizes for contestants:
FIAP: Gold, Silver, Brown medals; six awards;the badge for the best author
IAAP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals, three ribbons
FRP (Photoclub of The Republic of Poland): Gold, Silver, Brown medals
TTF (Tarnow Photo Society): Gold, Silver, Brown medals

Organizers’ awards:
I place PLN 2.000
II place PLN 1.500
III place PLN 1.000
In addition, the winner will receive Matolek the Billy Goat statuette.

The participant of the Competition has a right to choose the currency in which the prize is paid from PLN, EUR, and USD. In the case of choosing the currency other than PLN, the currency exchange rate from the date of the exchange is applied. In the case of not providing the chosen currency, the prize is paid in PLN to the bank account number provided by the laureate (with an automatic currency exchange calculation for the currency in which the account is run, if applicable). Cash prizes may be reduced by bank transfer costs.

The authors of the best photographs shall receive medals from the organizations which hold patronage over the Competition.

Additional provisions regarding FIAP patronage requirements.
Organizer defines:
Category is Themes/TRAD - “Life of a child in the contemporary world”
in which only photos conforming the definition of “Traditional Photo”are accepted.
All photos will be displayed and rated on a 27 "iMac monitor with resolution 5120x2880px.
Medals
• FIAP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals, six awards, the badge for the best author;
• the statue of “Koziolek Matolek”
• IAAP: Gold, Silver, Bronze medals, three ribbons;
• FRP (Photoclub of The Republic of Poland): Gold, Silver, Bronze medals;
• TTF (Tarnow Photo Society): Gold, Silver, Bronze medals.
Organizer expects:
All submitted photos must be photographed by the author, who must be the owner of the original, unretouched version of the image. The author must also own the copyright to each submitted photo.
Photos created by artificial intelligence are not allowed in this salon! All parts of the image must be photographed by the author, who holds the copyright to all submitted work. Offenders will be punished for life!!!
Each participant confirms that he/she has read and agrees to the following FIAP conditions:
- 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,
- the FIAP 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,
- that in case of sanctions following the non-compliance with FIAP regulations, the name ofthe 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.

Each participant agrees:
“I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 040/2023 «Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage» andFIAP document 038/2023«Sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list». I am particularly aware of chapter II «Regulations for International photographic events under FIAP patronage» of FIAP document 040/2023, dealing under Section II.2 and II.3 with the FIAP participation rules, the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list.”
Definition of “Traditional Photo” (TRAD)
Traditional photography preserves the original content of a single image with minimal adjustments that should not alter the reality of the scene and should look natural. Reordering, replacing, adding or removing any part of the original image except cropping is strictly prohibited. HDR (High Dynamic Range) and focus-stacking techniques, whether done in-camera or post-production, are strictly prohibited. (focus-stacking - understood as combining many images taken with different depth of field settings so as to finally obtain a greater depth of field).

The Organizer will print out the photographs participating in the competition on his own for the exhibition.

The PDF catalogue can be downloaded from the Organizer’s web page: www.foto.centrumbajki.pl. It is a possibility to get the paper form by your own during the Gala of the Competition.

The results of the Jury evaluation will be announced on the 19th of October 2025, during the Competition Gala and on the Organizer’s webpage: www.centrumbajki.pl; www.foto.centrumbajki.pl.

The prizes will be awarded on the 19th of October 2025, during the after-Competition Gala in Pacanow.

Contact with domestic and foregin participants: Karolina Dudek,
e-mail: [email protected] phone number: 0048 504 532 406.