Closing date:  13 April 2024 at 23:59 SAST (UC+2)
Judging dates:  19 – 28 April 2024
Results sent by:  20 May 2024
Exhibition:  20 – 22 July 2024
Final posting of Awards:  30 June 2024

OPEN COLOUR

OPEN MONOCHROME

NATURE

SCAPES

PHOTO TRAVEL

VISUAL ART

Proof of payment (POP) must accompany your entry in PDF format and attached to your Photovault Online entry.  Entries received with insufficient fees or without the POP will be rejected.

REFERENCE ON PAYMENT: PSSA International_Surname_First Name

Entries received with insufficient fees or without the POP will be rejected. 

Proof of payment (POP) must accompany your entry in PDF format and attached to your Photovault Online entry.  Entries received with insufficient fees or without the POP will be rejected.

REFERENCE ON PAYMENT: PSSA International_Surname_First Name

Entries received with insufficient fees or without the POP will be rejected. 

ENTRY FORMAT

Maximum horizontal axis 1920px
Maximum vertical axis 1080px
Either the horizontal axis or the vertical axis must be the maximum in order for the image to be uploaded successfully.
Images must be saved in the JPEG format and may not be larger than 2MB.

All images must be entered electronically at http://www.photovaultonline.com

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Acknowledgement of receipt for an entry will be returned to the participant after it has been finalized on Photo Vault Online. If no confirmation has been received within 3 working days after the entry has been finalized, please contact the Salon Director 

A downloadable digital catalogue will be available here after the salon.

Click here for the Catalogue and Category Presentations

The PSSA International Salon is open to all photographers worldwide.

A photographic image is defined “as being a captured image on a light-sensitive device/surface (e.g. photogram technique, film camera, digital camera, smartphone, tablet, etc…) and recorded on paper, film or in a digital format.”

An artificial intelligence (AI) generated image is not deemed to be a photographic image because it was created from scratch by the AI system and contains no image captured by the entrant. Therefore, this type of image will not be accepted into the salons.

Use of AI features (limited to: clear, de-noise, masking, sharpening, subject selection, tone adjustments, upsizing image) contained within a post processing application are permitted provided they comply with a competition’s editing criteria and do not contain any elements which were not captured by the entrant (e.g. element, texture, sky, etc…).

The Salon Director may require an entrant to provide all supporting images used in creating a composite image to prove that all components of the submitted image are their original work and that it does not contain any elements created or captured by someone else; and as such they hold and will retain the copyright for the image.

1.  An image may only be used once in this salon, irrespective of the category or of the image being colour or monochrome. No similar images by be used.

Any image found in more than one category will result in the second image being disqualified.

2.  Each image must have a unique name. The name of the image may not be changed at any time as all acceptance records are based on the image name. Words such as “Untitled” and “No Title” are not acceptable as part or all of the image’s title, nor are titles consisting of only camera capture filenames or titles consisting of only numbers.

Sanctions for re-titling will be imposed where a previously accepted image has been given a different title and/or where a Colour version and a Monochrome version of the same image have been given different titles.

3.  Entrants may submit up to four images in each category.

4.  Images that were accepted previously in the PSSA International Salon may NOT be entered again.

5.  Images which do not conform to the definition of the entered category will be rejected.

6.  All the parts of each submitted image must be photographed by the author who must be in possession of the original unretouched ‘capture’ version(s) of the image and where applicable of all component parts of the image. The author must also hold the copyright to each submitted image and of all component parts of it. The Salon Director may request an entrant to supply him with proof of the authenticity of all the elements in the presented image(s). If the entrant cannot supply such proof, his/her entry in the salon will be disqualified.

7.  Except for the restrictions on images described in the Nature and Photo Travel definitions, images may be altered, either digitally or otherwise by the entrant.

8.  No title, watermark or identification of the maker shall be visible anywhere on the image.

9.  The entrant accepts without exception and with no objection the following terms:that the submitted images can be investigated by PSSA to establish if these adhere to PSSA regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of PSSA, that any refusal to cooperate with PSSA or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, may result in disqualification.

10.  The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright by the entrant.

11.  No judge may enter any category in this salon.

12.  Family members (spouse, partner, parents and children) may enter categories in which a family member is judging but they may not win any of the medal awards (winner or runner-up).

13.  No member of the judging club may be considered for any of the top awards (winner and runner-up medals), except for certificates of merit and/or special club awards for the categories judged by the host club.

14.  An entrant’s images will distributed randomly in each category.

15.  No late entries will be accepted.

16.  DATA PROTECTION – By entering the PSSA International Salon, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including email addresses, being held, processed, and used by the exhibition organisers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organisations 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.

17.  BREACH OF CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

If the PSSA International Salon determines before, during, or after the judging that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition reserves the right and discretion to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards. Fees will be forfeited in these circumstances.

To ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the exhibition may carry out checks on the images to make sure that:

– the images are the original work of the entrant, and

– the images comply with the rules and definitions as set out

This may involve asking the entrant to provide originally captured image(s), with EXIF data intact, by a set deadline. The questioned image(s) of any entrant failing to comply with such a request for the original image(s) may be considered in breach of these Conditions of Entry and be declined. Such entries may be referred to PSSA for further investigation of possible ethics violations. PSSA retains the right to investigate in any way all complaints/suspicions of breaches of entry conditions, impose sanctions if deemed necessary, include the entrant’s name on the list of sanctions provided to Exhibitions, and share such investigations with FIAP. Entrants automatically agree to these.

Submission of entries signifies acceptance of these conditions of entry.

Download the full Salon Brochure here