IFSAK 6th. INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST (2018) is organized by; Istanbul Photography and Cinema Amateurs’ Club (IFSAK).

There are 4 digital sections as described below. Prints will not be accepted:
A- Digital: Open (Color) > DC (FIAP TRAD)
B- Digital: Open (Monochrome) > DM (FIAP TRAD, FIAP Monochrome)
C- Digital: Travel (Color or Monochrome) > DT (FIAP TRAD)
D- Digital: Portrait (Color or Monochrome) > DP (FIAP TRAD).

Starting Date : … 2017.
Closing Date : 09 February 2018, at 23:00 local Turkish Time.
Jury Meeting : 24 February 2018.
Results : 02 March 2018 at;
www.ifsak.org.tr, contest.ifsak.org.tr, www.tfsf.org.tr.
Results will also be sent to participants by email.
Exhibition and Award Ceremony : 24 March 2018, 16:00 at IFSAK Exhibition Hall
Digital Catalogue downloads : May 2018

The entry fee is mandatory for all participants and is; 20EUR or 25USD or 50TL (for Turkish Citizens only) for 4 sections. VAT is included at entry fees. All participants must pay the entry fee.
• Payment via paypal;
[email protected]
or

• Payment via bank transfer for Turkish Lira (TL), for Turkish Citizens only;
İSTANBUL FOTOĞRAF VE SİNEMA AMATÖRLERİ DERNEĞİ
Yapı Kredi Bankası Galatasaray Branch (İSTANBUL)
Brancah\ Şube No: 495
Account\ Hesap No: 82226315
IBAN No: TR 11 0006 7010 0000 0082 2263 15
Swift Code: YAPITRISXXX

<u>During payments, name of the author should be indicated at “explanations”/”details” section. Works of the authors who do not pay entry fee will not be taken into consideration. </u>

• All amateur and professional photographers are welcomed to participate to the contest. Organization Committee, Salon Chairman, Secretariat, Jury Members, TFSF\PAFT (Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey) representative and their first-degree relatives cannot participate to the contest.
• All participants can submit up to 4 (four) photographs for each category. The same image or color or B&W version of the same image cannot be submitted to more than 1 (one) category.
• 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 and 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 exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright. An entry may be rejected when the sponsoring organization or its agent, in its reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and conditions.
• The participants declare and confirm all permissions are taken by them, the work sent for contest is completely his/her own and whole responsibility belongs to them in case of any kind of conflict or disagreement. IFSAK will not be held responsible for any conflicts or disagreements.
• The participant declares and accepts that any legal issues about his/her photos will be under his/her responsibility only.
• If the participant submits a copyright which does not belong to him/her, executes any alterations or changes on the photo that does not belong to him/her to mislead the jury, this will be regarded as violation of the rules.
• For participants, violating the rules, sanctions mentioned at item 13 of the “TFSF\PAFT National and International Organizing Standards Directive” (http://www.tfsf.org.tr/en/download/contest_regulatory_standards.pdf) will apply. All gains, awards and titles of the violator will be revoked. The award will not be replaced with a new one and the ranking and award will be left empty. The participant should give back the award in case he received one.
• The participants, who are in the list of limitation decision according to TFSF (Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey) rules clarified above and are at FIAP’s Red List, cannot participate to this contest.
• Organizers will check and delete applications of participants who are in the Red List of FIAP and TFSF (Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey) before jury meeting.
• Organizer may request the raw file of the photographs in case there is a need.
• 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
• By submitting photographs to this competition, participants are considered to accept all regulations and rules of this competition.
• Notification cards will be sent to all participants by e-mail.
• All awards will be send to award owners by post. The organizer will take all possible care while handling awards, however we assume no liability for damages and loses during shipment.


COPYRIGHTS - USE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS - NOTIFICATION
• Awarded (medal & mention) and Accepted photographs will be kept at IFSAK’s archive. IFSAK will have the right to use these photographs for promoting purposes (uncommercial) with the Photographer’s name and copyright fee will not be paid to owner of the photograph (it could happen that in photo-collage graphic works author’s name could not be added). Author and IFSAK share the rights for the use of the works.
• According to the regulations and the rules of the competition, unless otherwise expressed by the author, reproduction of the works and their use both in printed and digital album is allowed. Under no circumstances, IFSAK will permit the use of the works for other purposes.
• Organizer accept that necessary permissions are granted by photographers participating to
this competition for portrayed people or land. Any disputes arising from use of the photographs (with Photographer’s name) in printed or electronic media (web, e-mails) in this manner will be solely the Participant’s responsibility.
• Awarded (medal & mention) photographs and Acceptance lists will be announced at www.ifsak.org.tr, contest.ifsak.org.tr, www.tfsf.org.tr web sites and on social media web sites such as Facebook, Instagram. Printed exhibition will also be managed by IFSAK according to the space criteria of IFSAK’s exhibition halls. In addition, Awarded (medal & mention) photographs will be printed on TFSF (Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey) album “Almanac 2018”.
• Uploaded photographs that are not awarded with any award or not selected for acceptances will be deleted from the system 90 (ninety) days after results are announced.
• Photographs will be submitted to Jury members in a completely darkened saloon with a ‘projection resolution of 3840 pixel x 2160 pixel with a diagonal screen size of minimum 1 meter or maximum 2,5 meters’ or with an ‘HD 4K LCD monitor 42/55 inch in size 3840 pixel x 2160 pixel in resolution’.
• By registering to contest.ifsak.org.tr web site and by submitting photographs to this competition, participants are considered to accept all regulations and rules of this competition. These rules and regulations become effective after participant’s photograph upload for this competition. It is considered that by participating to this contest, the participant has read and accepted all rules. Participants do not have the right for objecting any rules after participating to this contest.

ALBUM
A digital album containing awarded and mentioned photographs and acceptance lists will be prepared and be available for download at www.ifsak.org.tr web site by May 2018.

• Participation to this competition is only available via online participation. Any alternative submission method (e-mail, cargo, post, hand delivery, …) will not be accepted.
• Online submission of the contest photographs is possible only by using the web page below and following the membership and the photograph submission procedures.
contest.ifsak.org.tr
• Registration is necessary in order to load photographs on the given page.
• Size of the photographs and their titles must be determined beforehand and be kept ready to be loaded on the web page at one single session.
• Photographs should be sent without mat and\or canvas. Photographs containing Photographer’s name, mark, logo, date or signature will be rejected.
• The photographs must be in jpg/jpeg format at 150-300 dpi resolution, saved in 7-12 compression quality. Each file should not be less than 2 MB and should not exceed 4 MB in size.
• The titles of each photograph files must not exceed 31 letters. Turkish characters (Ç, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ş, Ü, ç, ı, ğ, ö, ş, ü) cannot be used in the title. English letters and underscore (_) can be used.
• All letters, except the ones in “country code” and “section (theme)”, must be in lower case.

FILE NAMING
1. Step: The first two characters of the file name must be the country code (example; “TR” for Turkey). For the country codes please check:
http://www.fiap.net/docs/divers/ISO-CODES-en.pdf
2. Step: The Country Code must be followed by Author’s name, maximum in 5 characters (Example: For “Omer Eril Yilmaz” it can be “omery” or “oeril” or “erily”).
3. Step: Following the Author’s name, “Section\Theme” abbreviation must be added.
For “Open Color Digital” Theme; DC,
For “Open Monochrome Digital” Theme; DM,
For “Travel Color or Monochrome Digital” Theme; DT.
For “Portrait Color or Monochrome Digital” Theme; DP.
4. Step: The sequence number of the photograph (1 to 4) must be typed in numbers. After this number an “underscore” (_) must be added.
5. Step: After the underscore, the title of the photograph must be typed, not exceeding total number
of character limitation (total 31 characters). In case of using more than one word for title, underscore (_) must be added between the words.

Example 1; The Author from Turkey, “Omer Eril Yilmaz”s work for “Open Color Digital” section, title as “Women Walking” with sequence number “1” will be titled as;
“TRoeyilDC1_women_walking”.

Example 2; The Author from Turkey, “Omer Eril Yilmaz”s work for “Open Monochrome Digital” section, title as “Water Works” with sequence number “2” will be titled as; “TRoeyilDM2_water_works”.

Example 3; The Author from Turkey, “Omer Eril Yilmaz”s work for “Portrait Color or Monochrome Digital” section, title as “Small Kid Working” with sequence number “4” will be titled as; “TRoeyilDP4_small_kid_working”.

Any problem experienced during online registration or uploading process due to system or due to participants, while participation to competition should be reported directly to [email protected]. Responsible authorities will return back to claim owners with information related to problem in due time. Please keep in mind that it is not possible to participate to competition by sending photographs to the said address.

Under no circumstances the jury members can neither see the title of the photograph nor the author name due to automatic codes generated by the system processes replacing the file names created by the participants.

IFSAK cannot be held responsible for possible problems during registration or upload processes.

Burak ŞENBAK Photographer, EFIAP\b, GPU Hermes, Hon. SSS - TR
Halil Nadir EDE Photographer, Işık University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lecturer - TR
Oktay ÇOLAK Photographer, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lecturer - TR
Ömer Serkan BAKIR Photographer, Fotoğraf Magazine, Editorial Director - TR
Serkan TURAÇ Photographer, EFIAP\b, GPU Zeus, Hon. SSS - TR
Tanju AKLEMAN Photographer, Chairman of the Board, IFSAK - TR
Vladimir JOVANOVSKI Photographer, President IAAP, RISF-5, GPU CR-3, KMF NFUM - Macedonia

The jury meeting must be held with at least 3 members. If 3 jury members will not present at the meeting, it will be postponed for a week. Epson Full HD projection will be used during jury meeting.

AWARDS and EXHIBITION (for each section)
FIAP Gold, Silver, Bronze Medal and 6 FIAP Hon. Mention
IAAP Gold, Silver, Bronze Medal and 6 IAAP Hon. Mention
Acceptance (Maximum 25% Acceptance of all photographs)
FIAP Best Author Award (overall best score in terms of acceptance (mentions + award)

All entries must be in line with FIAP TRAD definition.
Definition of “Traditional Photo” (FIAP TRAD)
A traditional photograph maintains the original image content with minimal adjustments which should not alter the reality of the scene and should appear natural. Rearranging, replacing, adding to or removing any part of the original image except by cropping is strictly forbidden. All entries shall conform to the sticker of this definition for acceptances to be validated by all the International Organizations granting recognition or patronage.

For Black & White (Monochrome) submissions, entries must be in line with FIAP Black and White Photography (Monochrome) definition.
FIAP Definition of the Black and White Photography (Monochrome):
This definition supersedes the Document 223 and the INFO 1991/12.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 color 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 color becomes a color work (polychrome) to stand in the color category; such a work requires color reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

SALON CHAIRMAN
Hakan Dilman Member of the Board, IFSAK
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +90-505-790 90 19


TFSF\PAFT REPRESENTATIVE:
Çetin KAYA


ORGANIZATION COMMITTE
Esin KOÇ V.P. of the Board of İFSAK ([email protected])
Kerem AKÇANBAŞ Member of the board of İFSAK ([email protected])
Mustafa SEVDİM Member of the board of İFSAK ([email protected])



SECRETERIAT & CONTACT
Çetin KAYA
(Phone: +90-212-292 18 07, E-Mail: [email protected])

Hakan DİLMAN
(Phone: +90-505-790 90 19, E-Mail: [email protected])


Our contest is approved by;
TFSF (Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey),
FIAP (Federation of International Art Photograph),
IAAP (International Association of Art Photographers).

TFSF/PAFT Approval No : 2018-007
FIAP Approval No : 2018/024
IAAP Approval No : 2017-055

During the competition, TFSF\PAFT Representative will be available.

Award (Medal & Mention) and Acceptance points can be used during FIAP title applications.