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Photolife Club (ILFIAP Georgia)

Organizations
PHOTOLIFE club (ILFIAP Georgia)
Yambol Photographic Community (Bulgaria)
National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (Ukraine).

There are three digital sections:
a) Open Color (color only)
b) Open Monochrome (monochrome only)
c) World In Focus (color/monochrome)
An image may be entered in only one section.

FIAP Statement regarding pictures generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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!
1. Permitted AI-enhanced editing: includes editing tools that perform transformations, enhancements, or corrections based exclusively on the existing pixel data captured in the author's original photograph without introducing externally sourced content.
2. Prohibited AI editing: includes any AI-assisted processes for synthetic image generation that incorporate external image data, visual elements, textures, objects, or scenes not originally present in the author’s photograph are prohibited.

Closing date 12 April 2026
All judging completed by 26 April 2026
Notifications sent by 10 May 2026
Awards mailed by 10 June 2026
On-line Gallery posted by 26 June 2026
On-line Catalog posted by 25 May 2026
Public Showings: There will be a public projection of all the awards and a representative selection of the accepted in 5-10 July in Tbilisi, Georgia and 10-15 July 2026 in Yambol, Bulgaria

ENTRY FEE
The entry fee for entries is to be paid after the upload of the photos will be finished. Discounts are not allowed. Cheques are not accepted. Entries for which no or insufficient payment has been received will not be judged.

Entry fee is mandatory for all participants: Entrance fee per person for 3 salons:
1 section €36
2 sections €38
3 sections €40
Possible ways of payment – PayPal transfer.
[email protected] (preferred) (paypal.me/photosalons).
Other payment methods Money Gram/Western Union are allowed.
Checks are not accepted. For another way for payment please contact us by email: [email protected].
Payment comments: please write the full name of the author.

The works of the authors who do not pay the fee will not be taken into consideration.
The fee is non-refundable.

3rd International circuit PHOTOSTOCK 2026 Georgia, Bulgaria and Ukraine is recognized by the PHOTOLIFE club (ILFIAP Georgia), Association of Photographers of Georgia (OM Georgia), Yambol Photographic Community (Bulgaria) and National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (OM Ukraine).

Entry is open to photographers all over the world. It will be organized under the approved rules of FIAP, GPU, APG, IAAP, IIG and Photolife. All acceptances will count for FIAP, GPU, APG, IAAP, IIG

3rd International circuit PHOTOSTOCK 2025 consists of 3 salons:
3rd International salon Georgia Photostock 2026
3rd International salon Bulgaria Photostock 2026
2nd International salon Ukraine Photostock 2026

DIGITAL ENTRY SUBMISSION
- Authors submit photos online on www.photo-salons.net. Each entry-form must be written only in English. If any problems are unresolved during online registration, entrants can send the registration form with competitive images via email: [email protected]
- Photos must be in JPG file format. Entries size requirements: The maximum size of image 1920 X 1080 pixels horizontal side 1920, vertical side 1080). Max. file size 2 MB.
- Exhibitions are not allowed to resize oversized images. In such cases the entrant is required to resubmit their entry with properly sized images.


ACCEPTANCES AND AWARDS
Judging Method
- The judging will be conducted by remote on-line. The judges will be using color-calibrated monitors. Judges will be using equipment capable of displaying images exactly 100% of the image resolution (that is, the images will not be enlarged - at no point zoomed in - beyond their native resolution).
- An award session will be done at the videoconference by a jury viewing the images together.


EXHIBITION REQUIREMENTS
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.
Entry • an author may not enter identical or similar photographs into the same salon; in such case
the organiser has to filter these images out before the judging;
• each salon participant cannot receive more than one award per section in the same salon.
• awarded medals must be either be engraved by the organiser or, at least, provided with a
sticker that includes details such as the name of the participant and the title of the picture
for which the award was given;
• pictures created by artificial intelligence are not allowed in any salon with FIAP Patronage!
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!
• one person cannot act more than fifteen times a year as member of a jury in a salon under
FIAP patronage;

Titles: Each image must have a unique title that relates to the content of the image. 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 file names such as IMG_xxxx). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; and may not 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. When entering titles, exhibitors may use Latin1 or Latin2 character sets (ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2) which allow diacritical marks (é, ñ, ü, ą, ę, ś, etc). While text written in non-Latin writing systems (Hanzi, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, etc) might be accepted by exhibition software, this practice is discouraged because it may yield unpredictable results in galleries, catalogs and may be rejected in Star applications.

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.

DATA PROTECTION
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including physical addresses, email addresses, being held, processed and used by the exhibition organizers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organizations that have accorded official recognition, patronage or accreditation to this exhibition. You acknowledge, agree and accept that by entering this exhibition, your participation status which includes your first and last name, name of the country used during registration at the exhibition, number of sections entered and number of photos entered in those sections will be made public in a published status list and that the results of your entry shall be made public in exhibition gallery, exhibition catalog. You also agree and accept the policies regarding Breaches of Rules of the FIAP

FIAP RULES: In order to have legal authority on those who do not respect the rules of FIAP, the organiser must make sure that all participants of an online event under FIAP Patronage tick a box next to which the following text is stated:
“I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 040/2023 « Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage » and FIAP document 033/2023 « 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”
FIAP documents 018/2017 and 017/2017 must be linked to this paragraph so that participants can consult it
Notice:

Pictures created by artificial intelligence are not allowed in this salon! 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!
The mention that 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 the following terms: - 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, - 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. If, at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organizer or the judges before, during, or after the judging of an exhibition that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition organizers reserve the right to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees may be forfeited or refunded in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the decision of the exhibition organizers or the judges is final.

The judges will evaluate all 3 sections: Open Color, Open Monochrome, World In Focus

3nd International salon Georgia Photostock 2026
Umberto Deramo - EFIAP/p, ESFIAP, MPSA2 - Italy
Mzia Lekveishvili - MAPG, EP Georgia
Mehmet Gokyigit - EFIAP/d3, Cyprus

3rd International salon Bulgaria Photostock 2026
Konstantin Zaykov, EFIAP - Bulgaria
Paolo Stuppazzoni EFIAP/s - Italy
Anton Savov – EFIAP, ESFIAP Bulgaria


2nd International salon Ukraine Photostock 2026
Eduard Stranadko – Ukraine
Udayan Sankar Pal - EFIAP, EPSA,GPU-CR4, India
Ahmed Russell - EFIAP/s –Bangladesh

3rd International circuit PHOTOSTOCK 2026
Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine
Totally 311 awards: 3 FIAP Blue Badge, APG Green Badge, 3 APG plaques, 76 medals, 108 HM, 120 Diplomas
altogether: 311 awards
GRAND PRIX
APG Green Badge for the Best Author of the circuit
3 Special plaques and 3 Diplomas for 3 best clubs in the circuit
Circuit Chairman Choice – one Gold medal
OPEN COLOR OPEN MONOCHROME WORLD IN FOCUS
3rd International salon Georgia Photostock 2026

FIAP Blue Badge for the best Author

Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal
Salon Best Photographer – One Gold Medal
FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal
GPU Gold Medal IIG Gold Medal IIG Gold Medal
PHOTOLIFE Gold Medal PHOTOLIFE Gold Medal PHOTOLIFE Gold Medal
Salon Gold Medal Salon Gold Medal Salon Gold Medal
Salon Silver Medal IAAP Gold Medal Salon Silver Medal
IAAP Silver Medal Salon Silver Medal Salon Bronze Medal
Salon Bronze Medal Salon Bronze Medal IAAP Bronze Medal
2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons
GPU HM Ribbon GPU HM Ribbon GPU HM Ribbon
IIG HM Ribbon IIG HM Ribbon IIG HM Ribbon
5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbon
3 APG HM Ribbons 3 APG HM Ribbons 3 APG HM Ribbons
13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas
8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas
25 medals, 36 HM ribbons, 39 Diplomas, 1 badge, altogether: 101 awards

3rd International salon Bulgaria Photostock 2026

FIAP Blue Badge for the best Author
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal

Salon Best Photographer – One Gold Medal
FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal
GPU Gold Medal IIG Gold Medal IIG Gold Medal
Salon YAMBOL Gold Medal Salon YAMBOL Gold Medal Salon YAMBOL Gold Medal
YAMBOL Gold Medal YAMBOL Gold Medal YAMBOL Gold Medal
Salon YAMBOL Silver Medal IAAP Gold Medal Salon YAMBOL Silver Medal
IAAP Silver Medal Salon YAMBOL Silver Medal Salon YAMBOL Bronze Medal
Salon YAMBOL Bronze Medal Salon YAMBOL Bronze Medal IAAP Bronze Medal
2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons
GPU HM Ribbon GPU HM Ribbon IIG HM Ribbon
5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 4 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 4 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons
4 APG HM Ribbon 5 APG HM Ribbon 5 APG HM Ribbons
13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas
8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, e-13 Diplomas
25 medals, 36 HM ribbons, 39 Diplomas, 1 badge, altogether: 101 awards

2nd International salon Ukraine Photostock 2026

FIAP Blue Badge for the best Author
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal
Salon Best Photographer – One Gold Medal
FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal FIAP Gold Medal
GPU Gold Medal IIG Gold Medal APG Gold Medal
IAAP Gold Medal NSPAU Gold Medal NSPAU Gold Medal
NSPAU Gold Medal Salon NSPAU Gold Medal Salon NSPAU Gold Medal
Salon NSPAU Gold Medal Salon NSPAU Silver Medal Salon NSPAU Silver Medal
Salon NSPAU Silver Medal Salon NSPAU Bronze Medal IAAP Silver Medal
Salon NSPAU Bronze Medal IAAP Bronze Medal Salon NSPAU Bronze Medal
2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons 2 FIAP HM Ribbons
GPU HM Ribbon 2 IIG HM Ribbon 2 IIG HM Ribbon
5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 4 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons 5 PHOTOLIFE HM Ribbons
4 APG HM Ribbons 5 APG HM Ribbons 4 APG HM Ribbons
13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas 13 PDF Salon diplomas
8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas 8 Medals, 12 HM, 13 e-Diplomas
25 medals, 36 HM ribbons, 39 Diplomas, 1 badge, altogether: 101 awards
Totally, 76 medals, 108 HM ribbons, 120 Diplomas, 4 badges, 3 plaques,
altogether: 311 awards
APG Green badge for the best author awarded an author who collects the most acceptances in the circuit.
GRAND PRIX awarded an author who collects the most awards in the circuit.
Salon Best Photographer gold medal – for a photographer who collects the most awards in the salon.
To be eligible for Club Trophies, minimum 10 participants from a club must participate and pay their individual entry fees. Club Entry Awards will be sent to a single address as communicated by the identified Group Leader.
Medals and Ribbons will be posted, E-Diplomas in the PDF format can be downloaded from the circuit page http://photo-salons.net

FIAP Monochrome Definition
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 color work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage.

World in Focus - FIAP definition
Just as with travel and tourism pictures, this section encompasses the full range of photographic
genres from architecture, culture, events, food, landscape, portraits, etc. A “WORLD IN FOCUS” image expresses the spirit of an era, the essence of a place or of a culture whether it is shown in an authentic scene or whether it is arranged. Digital manipulation to optimise an image in terms of finetuning of levels and colours is allowed as long as the image looks natural. The same applies for removal of dust or digital noise. Techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted.

Chair: Nino Mghebrishvili – EFIAP, PPSA, GPU QROWN1
Email [email protected]
Location of Entry Form: https://photomarket.ge/stock1
Website: http://photo-salons.net