FIAP Nature and Black & White Biennials 2018

Congratulations to all our members whose images were selected as part of the PSSA teams for the FIAP Black & White & Nature Biennials.

Forty countries participated in the Black & White Biennial which was judged in Vereeniging by Freddy van Gilbergen MFIAP, EFIAP/s, Hon EFIAP from Belgium, Nige Westwood from Zimbabwe and Markus Worsdorfer from Germany. We took 20th position in this Biennial. The prints have been on exhibition at the FIAP Congress in Durban and at the GFI Gallery in Port Elizabeth.

Scotland was the winning country closely followed by Russia & Argentina – their panels of 10 images can be seen below

These are the winning images of the Black & White Biennial 2018

FIAP GOLD MEDAL

Brian Clark – Scotland – Winter Solitude

FIAP SILVER MEDAL

Vladimir Savcinsky – Slovakia – Basketball M 16.4

FIAP SILVER MEDAL

Antonio García Redondo – Spain – Entre Rejas

FIAP BRONZE MEDAL

Breen Porter – New Zealand – Metropol Parosol Seville Spain

FIAP BRONZE MEDAL

Sergey Anisimov – Russia – Frends

FIAP BRONZE MEDAL

Willi Habner – Switzerland – Allessandro

PSSA GOLD MEDAL – JUDGES CHOICE – FREDDY Van GILBERGEN

Afternoon Activities 1 – Bisak Zoltan – Serbia

PSSA GOLD MEDAL – JUDGES CHOICE – NIGE WESTWOOD

Pudeur – Stephane Kaelen – Belgium

PSSA GOLD MEDAL – JUDGES CHOICE – MARKUS WORSDORFER

Tom at Home – Andy Fryer – Great Britain

Nature Biennials

28 Countries entered the Print section of the Nature Biennial and we were placed 10th, and 33 countries entered the digital section and we were placed 4th, well-done everyone.

Special Congratulations to Bennie Vivier for being awarded the FIAP Bronze Medal for Golden Jump, Dries Fourie for being awarded the Photographic Society of Oman Gold Medal for Fear and Jan Jacobs for being awarded the Photographic Society of Oman Honorable Mention for Eagle and the Fox.

Bennie Vivier was awarded the FIAP Bronze Medal for “Golden Jump”

Dries Fourie was awarded the Photographic Society of Oman Gold Medal for “Fear”

Jan Jacobs was awarded the Photographic Society of Oman Honorable Mention for “Eagle and the Fox”

Below, please find the South African entry for the Digital and Prints categories followed by the FIAP Black & White Biennial winning panel of Scotland.  

Kind regards

Jill