Photolife club (ILFIAP Georgia)
National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (OM Ukraine)
Photoclub LE PHOTOGRAPHE (New ILFIAP country Tunisia)

Chairman of the circuit:
Lamara Beridze, [email protected], www.photo-forum.eu
Address: Varketili 3, 2 micro-district, 2 building, app 63.

RECOGNITIONS
FIAP 2021/546-547-548
PSA 2021-1633
GPU L210172
APG 09/2021
Photolife Club 04/2021
NSPAU 2021/01
IAAP 2021/
GNG 2021-08-2021

FIAP – Federation Internationale de L’art Photographique
PSA – Photographic Society of America
GPU – Global Photographic Union
APG – Association of Photographers of Georgia
NSPAU National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine
IAAP – International Art Photographers
GNG – Green Go Club (India)

1st International circuit PHOTO FAIR 2021: Georgia, Ukraine, Tunisia is recognized by the Photolife Club, (ILFIAP 2219 Georgia), National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine (OM Ukraine) and Le Photographe Club (New ILFIAP 2250 Tunisia).
Entry is open to photographers all over the world. It will be organized under the approved rules of FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG, NSPAU, IAAP, GNG, and Photolife. All acceptances will count for FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG, IAAP and for inclusion in PSA Star Rating and "Who’s Who".

1st International circuit PHOTO FAIR 2021 consists of 3 salons:
1st International salon Georgia Photo Fair
1st International salon Ukraine Photo Fair
1st International salon Tunisia Photo Fair

There are three digital sections:
a) Open Color (PSA PID color)
b) Open Monochrome (PID-M)
c) People (PID-C) – Color/Monochrome
Each photo can be presented in only one section.

Closing date 07.11.2021
All judging completed by 21.11.2021
Notifications sent by 05.12.2021
Awards mailed by 02-03.2022
On-Line Gallery posted by 30.12.2021
PDF Catalog posted by 02.02.2022
Date(s) of Exhibitions/Public Showings of Projected Images 02.2022
EDAS- 20.01.2022

All participants will receive individual report card notifications via e-mail. The results of the exhibition will also will be published on the website www.photo-forum.eu

Entry fee
The entry fee for entries are to be paid by following the instructions on the website when filling out the entry form, after the upload of the photos will be finished. Payment should be in accordance with the entry fees stated there. Club discount is also specified. 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 €29
2 sections €34
3 sections €37
Possible ways of payment – PayPal transfer.
Terms of payment (preferred) – PayPal: [email protected] (paypal.me/photosalons). Other payment methods Money Gram/Western Union and Yandex Money are allowed. For another way for payment please contact us by email: [email protected]. Club discounts are available: 20% discount of the fee for groups with 10 and more entrants.
Payment comments: please write the full name of the author. Checks are not accepted. The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.
Regardless of the results, the fee is non-refundable.

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.

Sanctions:
Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is currently sanctioned by PSA.

PSA Star Ratings:
To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country exactly the same in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to another country.

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. 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.

Alteration and Computer Generation:
Subject to Divisional restrictions (particularly Nature, Photo Travel, and Photojournalism) images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the maker. 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 author. All parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted.

Re-use of accepted images:
Once an image has been accepted in a PSA Recognized exhibition, any identical image, or near identical image, may not, in future, be entered or re-entered in any section of the same Division Star Ratings class in that exhibition regardless of media, format, or title; may not be re-titled for entry into any other PSA Recognized exhibition, including translation into another language.

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.

Titles:
Each image must have a unique title. That unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an Identical Image into any and all PSA-Recognized exhibitions. Titles must be 35 characters or fewer. No titles may be visible to the judges, and nothing in the image may identify the maker. Titles must not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames), or words such as "untitled" or "no title". Titles may not consist solely of numbers.

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.
However, PSA members working on Galaxy and Diamond Star Ratings are allowed to continue using different titles of monochrome versions and color versions of the same capture that have already been accepted until the required number of acceptances for those titles has been completed.

The Exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the PSA and FIAP
ORGANISATION
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 will be in the same round order as submitted by the entrant.
An image may be entered in only one section where acceptances of that image in multiple sections would be eligible for the same star path

Authors submit photos online. 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 sizes of image 1920X1080 pixels (for horizontal side 1920, for vertical side 1080). Max. file size 2 MB. Oversized images will be rejected, and will have to be resubmitted. Image titles should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue. Only English letters (a-z) are allowed. An entrant's four images will be distributed throughout four rounds of judging for all sections. The images received from entrants will be judged at 100% of the maximum permitted pixel size. Digital images must not be altered, including resizing, by the Exhibition before judging.
The judging will be conducted by remote on-line. The native resolution of the display of the judges’ equipment will be 1920X1080 pixels or more, which provides to view images in its native resolution 100%. Displays of all judges calibrated that assure to transfer colors, tones and shades precisely, accurately and correctly.

1st International salon Georgia Photo Fair
Mehmet Gokyigit - EFIAP/g, C*MoL, Hon.FAPG (Cyprus) - Chairman
Buket Ozatay – EFIAP/d1 (Cyprus)
Mzia Lekveishvili – MAPG, EP (Georgia)

1st International salon Ukraine Photo Fair:
Eduard Stranadko – (Ukraine) - Chairman
Hulki Muradi – EFIAP/s, PPSA (Turkey)
Rauf Umudov – MAPG (Azerbaijan)

1st International salon Tunisia Photo Fair:
Shehan Trek - EFIAP, PPSA, GPU CR-3 (Sri Lanka) - Chairman
Abdellatif Akremi (Tunisia)
Anis Mekri (Tunisia)

Totally 310 awards: 3 FIAP Blue Badge, APG Green Badge, 94 medals, 118 HM, 93 Diplomas,
APG Green Badge for the Best Author of the circuit
3 Plaques and Special diplomas for the 3 best clubs in the circuit
Circuit Chairman Choice – one Gold medal.

Special 3 PLAQUES and DIPLOMAS for clubs - Best Club (1st position), Best Club (2nd position), Best Club (3rd position). Required min. 10 participants from a club
Each entrant must indicate a club name while payment and club representative must send the name list of their entrants via email – [email protected]

1st International salon Georgia Photo fair
a) Open Color (PSA PID color):
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal, 1 FIAP Blue Badge,
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GPU Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, PHOTOLIFE Gold medal, PHOTOLIFE Silver medal, PHOTOLIFE Bronze medal, IAAP Silver medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 3 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 4 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 PHOTOLIFE diploma.
Totally: 101 awards

b) Open Monochrome (PID-M)
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GPU Silver medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, PHOTOLIFE Gold medal, PHOTOLIFE Silver medal, PHOTOLIFE Bronze medal, IAAP Bronze medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 4 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 3 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 PHOTOLIFE diploma,

c) People (PID-C) – Color/Monochrome
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, PHOTOLIFE Gold medal, PHOTOLIFE Silver medal, PHOTOLIFE Bronze medal, IAAP Gold medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, 2 GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 4 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 2 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 PHOTOLIFE diploma.


1st International salon Ukraine Photo fair
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal, 1 FIAP Blue Badge,
a) Open Color (PSA PID color):
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GPU Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, NSPAU Gold medal, NSPAU Silver medal, NSPAU Bronze medal, IAAP Silver medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 4 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 2 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 APG diploma.

b) Open Monochrome (PID-M)
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GNG Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, NSPAU Gold medal, NSPAU Silver medal, NSPAU Bronze medal, IAAP Gold medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 4 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 2 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 APG diploma.

c) People (PID-C) – Color/Monochrome
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GNG Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, NSPAU Gold medal, NSPAU Silver medal, NSPAU Bronze medal, IAAP Bronze medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon,
4 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 2 APG HM Ribbon, 4 Salon diploma, 6 APG diploma.
Totally: 101 awards

1st International salon Tunisia Photo Fair
Salon Chairman Choice – one Gold Medal, 1 FIAP Blue Badge,
a) Open Color (PSA PID color):
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GPU Bronze medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Gold medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Silver medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Bronze medal, IAAP Gold medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 3 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 3 APG HM Ribbon, 5 Salon diploma, 5 APG diploma.

b) Open Monochrome (PID-M)
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GNG Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Gold medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Silver medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Bronze medal, IAAP Bronze medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 3 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 3 APG HM Ribbon, 5 Salon diploma, 5 APG diploma.

c) People (PID-C) – Color/Monochrome
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GNG Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Gold medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Silver medal, LE PHOTOGRAPHE Bronze medal, IAAP Silver medal, 2 FIAP HM ribbon, 2 PSA HM ribbon, GPU HM ribbon, 2 IAAP HM ribbon, 3 PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon, 3 APG HM Ribbon, 5 Salon diploma, 5 APG diploma.

PSA Statement on Subject Matter
There is one hard and fast rule, whose spirit must be observed at all times and applies to all sections offered in PSA recognised exhibitions.
The welfare of the subject is more important than the photograph.
This means that practices such as baiting of subjects with a living creature and removal of birds from nests, for the purpose of obtaining a photograph, are highly unethical, and such photographs are not allowed in any PSA exhibitions.
There is also a PSA policy on the use of aerial photography - aircraft, helicopters and drones. This policy can be found at https://psa-photo.org/index.php?psa-policies#drone.
The purpose of this policy is to prevent any interference with other individuals or animals which will or may cause a disturbance in their normal activity or disrupt the way any individuals or animals interact with their environment. Entry in this exhibition requires exhibitors to agree to this and other PSA policies
The content of images must comply with these General Conditions and with the Division and Section definitions listed in these conditions. Images that - in the sole opinion of the judges or the Exhibition Organizers - do not comply are likely to be disqualified so the entrant may be aware of the problem when considering entry into other PSA recognized exhibitions.

MONOCHROME DEFINITIONS
FIAP definition of 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

PSA Monochrome Definition
An image is considered to be Monochrome only if it gives the impression of having no color (i.e. contains only shades of grey which can include pure black and pure white) OR it gives the impression of being a greyscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image. (For example by Sepia, red, gold, etc.) A greyscale or multi-colored image modified or giving the impression of having been modified by partial toning, multi-toning or by the inclusion of spot coloring does not meet the definition of monochrome and shall be classified as a Color Work
Monochrome images may be entered in PID Colour sections but will only be eligible towards PID Color Star Ratings.

SPONSORS
The sponsors of the competition have a right to:
1. Reproduce the entries in any part of the website psaphoto.org
2. Present prints or digital files for judging by the contest jury
3. Exhibit winning entries in printed or digital format at the exhibitions
4. Reproduce winning images in any printed or electronic media in order to inform public about the contest and Its results
5. Reproduce winning images in the photo albums, informative brochures, digital media and other publications related to the contest and exhibitions
6. Use winning images for further specialized activities, aimed at the popularization of the contest
7. Offer the options for the commercial usage of the images to their authors
8. The sponsors of the competition pledge to specify the name of the image maker when reproducing it in any form
9. Exhibition copies to be shown at the exhibition and printed at the cost of the sponsors of the contest will remain with sponsors and may be used within the framework of the competition activity.

COPYRIGHT
The author should be a copyright holder of the submitted material. By virtue of submitting an entry to the "Photo Fair 2021" salon, the author permits sponsors to use all or part of the submitted material for any purpose, related to the contest and future exhibitions.
The sponsors of the competition have a right to:
● Reproduce the entries in any part of the “Photo Fair 2021” website
● Present prints or digital files for judging by the contest jury
● Exhibit winning entries in printed or digital format at the exhibitions of the "Photo Fair 2021" contest
● Reproduce winning images in any printed or electronic media in order to inform public about the contest and its results
● Reproduce winning images in the photo albums, informative brochures, digital media and other publications related to the contest and exhibitions
● Use winning images for further specialized activities, aimed at the popularization of the contest
● Offer the options for the commercial usage of the images to their authors.
The sponsors of the competition pledge to specify the name of the image-maker when reproducing it in any form.
Exhibition copies to be shown at the exhibition and printed at the cost of the sponsors of the “Photo Fair 2021" contest will remain with sponsors and may be used within the framework of the competition activity.
Submitting the entry, you automatically grant your consent with the contest policy and rules mentioned above.

Online PDF Catalog downloadable from web site www.photo-forum.eu by exhibitors