Photolife Club (Georgia ILFIAP)

Chairman of the salon:
Lamara Beridze, [email protected], www.fotosalons.net
Address: Varketili 3, 2 micro-district, 2 building, app 63.

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

Closing date 21.11.2021
All judging completed by 05.12.2021
Notifications sent by 19.12.2021
Awards mailed by 03.2022
On-Line Gallery posted by 30.01.2022
PDF Catalog posted by 20.02.2022
Date(s) of Exhibitions/Public Showings of Projected Images 03.2022
EDAS- 02.01.2022

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.fotosalons.net

Entry fee is mandatory for all participants: 22 Euros – for any 3 sections, 26 Euros for all 5 sections. Possible ways of payment – PayPal transfer.
Terms of payment (preferred) – PayPal: [email protected]. The 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.
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.

FIAP 2021/488
PSA 2021-1630
GPU L210168
Photolife Club 05/2021
APG 10/2021
HPS 2021/37
IAAP 2021/

FIAP – Federation Internationale de L’art Photographique
PSA – Photographic Society of America
GPU – Global Photographic Union
APG – Association of Photographers of Georgia
HPS – Hellenic Photography Society (Greece)
IAAP – International Art Photographers

4th International Photo Salon NARIKALA 2021 is recognized by the PHOTOLIFE Club (Photolife ILFIAP 2219). Entry is open to photographers all over the world. It will be organized under the approved rules of FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG, HPS, IAAP, and Photolife. All acceptances will count for FIAP, PSA, GPU, APG, HPS, IAAP and for inclusion in PSA Star Rating and "Who’s Who".

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.

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.

ORGANISATION
The Exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the PSA and FIAP.
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

DATA PROTECTION
Protection of Entrants' Personal information
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including 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 and accept that entering this exhibition means that the status and results of your entry may be made public.

BREACHES OF RULES
FIAP:
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

PSA
In order to ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the exhibition organizers may carry out reasonable measures to verify 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
These steps include, but are not limited to, questioning any entrant, requiring the submission of RAW files or other digital files representing the original capture of the submitted image(s), confronting the entrant with evidence that one or more submitted images fails to comply with the Conditions of Entry (also known as Entry Rules), and offering the entrant a reasonable opportunity to provide counter evidence to refute the exhibition organizer’s evidence by a set deadline. Such entries that are not cleared or are still questionable after the entrant has presented evidence 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 and agree to cooperate with any investigation.
If another party is submitting images on the entrant’s behalf, the entrant will still be held responsible for adhering to these Conditions of Entry (Entry Rules) and will be subject to sanction for any violations to these Conditions of Entry and PSA’s Statement of Ethics that may result.

NOTICES TO ENTRANTS:
PSA NOTICE: When an entrant fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry the entrant will see a feature to affirm he or she has read these Conditions of Entry when he or she fills out the entry form. If the entrant does not so affirm the entry will not be submitted
FIAP NOTICE: “I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 018/2017 «Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage” and FIAP document 017/2017 “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 018/2017, dealing under Section II.2 and II.3 with the FIAP participation rules, the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list.

Akaki (Kakha Pkhakadze) – AFIAP, Georgia
Hassan Hulki Muradi – EFIAP/S, PPSA, Turkey
Mzia Lekveishvili – EP, MAPG, Georgia
Reserve member George Mindiashvili, Georgia

1 FIAP Blue Badge, 3 plaques, 56 medals, 55 HM ribbons, 45 diplomas. Totally 164 awards:
1 FIAP Blue Badge for the best author, 1 APG Green Badge,
1 Chairman Choice 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]

a) Open Color (PSA PID color):
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 Bronze Medal, HPS Gold medal, FIAP HM ribbon X 2, PSA HM ribbon X 2, GPU HM ribbon X 2, IAAP HM ribbon, APG HM ribbon, HPS HM ribbon, PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon X 2, SALON diploma X 9,
Totally: 11 medals, 11 HM, 9 PDF Diploma

b) Open Monochrome (PID-M)
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, APG Gold medal, HPS Gold medal, FIAP HM ribbon X 2, PSA HM ribbon X 2, GPU HM ribbon X 2, APG HM ribbon, IAAP HM ribbon, PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon X2, HPS HM ribbon, SALON diploma X 9,
Totally: 11 medals, 11 HM, 9 PDF Diploma

c) People (PID-C) – Color/Monochrome
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, APG Gold medal, HPS Gold medal, FIAP HM ribbon X 2, PSA HM ribbon X 2, GPU HM ribbon X 2, IAAP HM ribbon, PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon X 4, HPS HM ribbon, APG HM ribbon, SALON diploma X 9,
Totally: 11 medals, 11 HM, 9 PDF Diploma

d) Landscape (PID-C) - Color/monochrome
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, GPU Bronze medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, PHOTOLIFE Gold medal, PHOTOLIFE Silver medal, PHOTOLIFE Bronze medal, IAAP Silver Medal, HPS Gold medal, FIAP HM ribbon X 2, PSA HM ribbon X 2, GPU HM ribbon, APG HM ribbonX2, IAAP HM ribbon, HPS HM ribbon, PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon X 2, SALON diploma X 9,
Totally: 11 medals, 11 HM, 9 PDF Diploma.

e) Lifestyle (PID-C) - Color/monochrome
FIAP Gold medal, PSA Gold medal, APG Gold medal, Salon Gold medal, Salon Silver medal, Salon Bronze medal, IAAP Gold Medal, PHOTOLIFE Gold medal, PHOTOLIFE Silver medal, PHOTOLIFE Bronze medal, HPS Gold medal, FIAP HM ribbon X 2, PSA HM ribbon X 2, GPU HM ribbon, APG HM ribbon, IAAP HM ribbon X 2, PHOTOLIFE HM ribbon X 2, SALON diploma X 9,
Totally: 11 medals, 11 HM, 9 PDF 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.

LIFESTYLE DEFINITION (by organizer)
Lifestyle photography is a genre of photography that mainly aims to capture portraits of people in situations, real-life events or milestones in an artistic manner and the art of the everyday. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's lives or to inspire people in different times. Thus, it covers multidisciplinary types of photography together.
Even though lifestyle photography is about telling a story and documenting the subject’s natural environment, lighting and posing still plays a huge factor. Lifestyle photography is "posed" in an informal way such that the photographer gives some prompts and then documents the natural responses and candid moments that follow. Most lifestyle photographers prefer to position their subjects strategically in natural lighting for a “real-life” effect, but some often-external lighting as well in a manner that looks as if it was pre-existing in the environment.

Online PDF Catalog downloadable from web site www.fotosalons.net by exhibitors

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 "Narikala 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 “Narikala 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 " Narikala 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 “Narikala 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.