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  9th Circular Exhibition of Photography  
  "MNE PBK CIRCUIT 2024"  
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9th Circular Exhibition of Photography

MNE PBK CIRCUIT 2024

PSA 2024-1174


ORGANISER
Photo club Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Cultural center Budva, Budva, Montenegro 
Photo club Cattaro, Kotor, Montenegro 

9th Circular Exhibition of Photography “MNE PBK CIRCUIT 2024” - Podgorica, Montenegro
9th Circular Exhibition of Photography “MNE PBK CIRCUIT 2024”” - Budva, Montenegro
9th Circular Exhibition of Photography “MNE PBK CIRCUIT 2024”” - Kotor, Montenegro

CONTACTS 
Aleksandar Bogojevic, Salon chairman
Belvederska 91, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

a. Email address of the Exhibition  office@photoclubmontenegro.com
b. Authors must fill out online entry form available on our web site  
Location of Entry Form http://www.photoclubmontenegro.com/
c. Name of Exhibition Software Provider: Photo Club Montenegro
d. Details on how to enter the exhibition http://www.photoclubmontenegro.com

SECTIONS
 - There are four sections, all digital:
A) OPEN COLOR (color only) PSA PID Color
A) LIFE (color only) PSA PID Color
B) OPEN MONOCHROME (monochrome only) PSA PID Monochrome
B) PORTRAIT MONOCHROME (monochrome only) PSA PID Monochrome
- Each photo can be presented in only one section.

ENTRY FEE (for all 3 salons)
20 Eur. for any 1 or 2 sections 
25 Eur. for any 3 or all 4 sections

GROUP ENTRIES
• The group must consist of at least 5 entrants.  
• Each person must enter separately  
• A discount of will be given to all group entries:  
5-9 Entrants: 10%
10 or more entrants: 15%

Possible ways of payment:
 
- PayPal is available for payment on-line (office@photoclubmontenegro.com).
- Cash, Checks and IRC are not accepted.
- The works of the authors who did not pay the fee would not be taken into consideration.

CALENDAR
Closing date:     18.03.2024.
Judging:     20.03.-03.04.2024.
Notification:     10.04.2024. www.photoclubmontenegro.com  On-Line
Gallery posted: 10.04.2024. www.photoclubmontenegro.com  On-line
PDF Exhibition Catalog: 01.06.2024.
Sending of awards: 01.06.2024.

REPORT CARD NOTIFICATIONS
All participants will receive report card notifications via e-mail.
The results of the exhibition will also be published on the website
www. photoclubmontenegro.com

JURY MEMBERS
Podgorica
John CHAPMAN
, GMPSA, EFIAP/p, APSEM ARPS, Australia
Xiaoqing CHEN
, MPSA/F.FPT/FAPAM/FAPAS/FPVS/FAPU, China
Aleksandar BUDJEVAC
, EFIAP, ESFIAP, Serbia

Budva
Barbara SCHMIDT
, GMPSA/b, BPSA, EFIAP/p, GPU VIP-5, GPU Zeus, GPU CR4, Germany
Danne JOHANSEN
, EFIAP/p, Denmark 
Branko GLISOVIC
, Montenegro

Kotor
Veniero RUBBOLI
, EFIAP/d3, BFI, FG-ISF (Hon.PESGSPC, Hon.FICS), Italy
Manfred PILLIK
, EFIAP, Austria
Goran KOJADINOVIC
, EFIAP/s, PPSA, Hon MoL, FA1 FSS, Serbia

AWARDS
Podgorica
PSA
Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
DPA
Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
SALON
Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether)
+ 5 SALON honorable mention ribbons in each section (20 altogether)

Budva

PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
DPA
Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
SALON
Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether)
+ 5 SALON honorable mention ribbons in each section (20 altogether)

Kotor
PSA Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
DPA
Gold medal in each section (4 altogether)
SALON
Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (12 altogether)
+ 5 SALON honorable mention ribbons in each section (20 altogether)

- Each author can receive only one award in each section.

Details of 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.
PSA statement in 2 places is not required.
Membership in any photographic organization is not required.

Penalties: Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is on the PSA Penalties List for Ethics Violation. Entry fees are not refundable in these circumstances.

PSA Star Ratings: To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country exactly the same way in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to another country. Using one’s name differently in different exhibition exposes the entrant to the risk that many of their acceptances may not be recognized by PSA Star Ratings.
 
Image creation and ownership
In all sections of the exhibition, images must originate as photographs made by the entrant. 
They may not incorporate identifiable images produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, replacement skies, or stock images).  Images created in whole or in part by image creation software (frequently called ‘AI’ images) are not allowed. Editing or alteration of images is permitted within the limits specified in the relevant section definitions that are available here https://psa-photo.org/page/division-definitions
 
Any person submitting or attempting to submit a totally AI generated image that does not begin with a light capture from the maker, from any Photographic Society of America exhibition, social media, event, or publication, other than for editorial purposes, shall be prohibited from PSA for 
a period of from 3 years to life.
 
Reproduction: 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. The Photographic Society of America (PSA) may request specific permission from entrants to reproduce entered images in its educational materials. The terms of that permission will be mutually agreed between the entrant and PSA except in the circumstances where the entered image is found to breach the PSA Ethics Policy. In those circumstances the image may be reproduced by PSA, without the entrant’s further permission, 
for educational purposes to illustrate serious exhibition rule violations. For those reproductions, the entrant’s name will be withheld.

Penalties: Entries will not be accepted from entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced in materials related to the exhibition. The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright

Re-use of accepted images: Any image that has been accepted in this exhibition, past or present, may not be entered again in the same Division Star Ratings Class in any future instances of this exhibition. It may, of course, be entered in any other PSA recognised 
exhibitions but must always have the same title. Re-titling in another language is not allowed.

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. Entrants may not enter identical or similar images into the same section or different sections of the same exhibition. Similar is defined as almost identical in subject, composition, props, lighting or technique so that a reasonable person viewing the entries together would decide the entrant has duplicated the previous image except for minor changes.

Titles: Each image must have a unique title that relates to the content of the image. 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 entrant. Titles may not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames such as IMG 471). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; or 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.

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.
 
PHOTOGRAPHS
AUTHORS MUST FILL OUT ENTRY FORM AND SUBMIT PHOTOS ONLINE
- Photos must be in JPG file format, Max. image width (horizontal) is 1920 pix. Max. image 
height (vertical) is 1080 pix. in 300 dpi. compression 7-12, max 2Mb.

The Exhibition will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the PSA
 
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. At no stage will a judge be able to view all the entrant’s images together.
 
JUDGING METHOD
Remote judging of images will be with calibrated computer monitors (minimum 19 inches) or 
high definition TV screens at 100% of the submitted pixel size (1920x1080 pix).
Equipment will be capable of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution, it will not 
resize any submitted images or change the aspect ratio of the original image to “Fit to screen” 
or to “Fill screen” by monitors or HDTV equipment.
Oversized images will be rejected and the entrant required to resubmit their entry with properly sized images.
All information, including image file names, provided to the judges for remote judging must 
retain complete anonymity of the entrants and not provide the judges with any means of determining any entrant’s personal details, such as name, email address, or country.
 
The target acceptance rate is up to 30% in each section.  
 
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 policy regarding Breaches of Rules of the PSA.

CC - Subject matter and definitions

Statement on Subject Matter - applicable to all sections

The fundamental rule that must be observed at all times and applies to all sections offered in exhibitions with PSA recognition is that the welfare of living creatures is more important 
than any 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 exhibition with PSA recognition. Under 
no circumstances may a living creature be placed in a situation where it will be killed, injured or stressed for the purpose of obtaining a photograph. Images that show live creatures being fed 
to captive animals, birds or reptiles are not permitted under any circumstances.

There are also concerns about the use of aerial photography, drones, helicopters, low flying aircraft. These should not cause any interference with other individuals or animals which causes a disturbance in their normal activity or disrupt the way any individuals or animals interact with their environment. Entrants in PSA recognized exhibitions should comply with all relevant laws and regulations, associated with aerial photography, in the country in which the image was 
taken.

Entry into PSA recognized exhibitions is conditional on accepting these policies. The content of images must comply with the General Conditions and with the Division and Section definitions listed in these conditions.

Images that - in the sole opinion of the judges- do not comply, will be disqualified so the entrant may be aware of the problem when considering entry into other exhibitions with PSA recognition.
 
Life Definition in PID-C

The closest definition of Life photos, pictures of everyday life on which depict people, events, phenomena - Life itself. Monochrome images may not be entered in PID Color Sections.  
 
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections.
Only color images allowed in this section.
 
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.
 
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections.
Monochrome images may not be entered in color sections of PID.
 
 
Portrait Definition in PID-M
 
Our definition of the Portrait section; a photograph of a person or group of people who are 
aware they are being photographed.  
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.
 
Attention is drawn to the PSA Statement on Subject Matter which applies to all sections.
 
CD-1 Non-compliance
See the PSA Ethics Policy at https://psa-photo.org/page/ethical-practices
See the PSA statement on Subject Matter at https://psa-photo.org/page/division-definitions 
If, in the discretion of the exhibition organizer or the judges, an entrant has submitted that may
 fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, they are allowed to request unedited or raw files 
of the submitted image.
For composite images all files are required.
Exhibition organizers may verify that:
a) the images are the original work of the entrant
b) the images comply with the rules and definitions as set out in these ES-COE
Such entries may be referred to PSA for further investigation of possible ethics violations.
 
PSA retains the right to investigate all complaints, impose penalties 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 processing and/or submitting images on the entrant’s behalf, the entrant will 
still be held responsible for adhering to the entry rules and will be subject to penalties for any violations to these Conditions of Entry or to PSA’s Statement of Ethics.

NOTICE
When entrants fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry they will see the following feature to 
affirm they have read these Conditions of Entry “I hereby confirm that I have read and 
understood and agree to the Conditions of Entry of this exhibition. I have read and understood 
the PSA document to be found at 
https://psaphoto. org/resource/resmgr/pdf/exhibitions_/exhibition-entrants-agreemen.pdf
I am aware that PSA may apply penalties for non-compliance to these Conditions of Entry” Failure to agree will mean that the application will not proceed.
 
Licence agreement:
By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies legal Age, and own all rights to these images, including copyright or parents or guardians gives permission on his/her behalf if he/she is not of Legal Age.
The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright.

 


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