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April 2023 Cape Camera

Kim Stevens (left) and
Neels Beyers (right)
recently received
the FIAP certificates
and badges from
PSSA Western Cape
Regional Director and
CTPS member, Nicol
du Toit. Kim earned an
EFIAP and Neels EFIAP
Silver. Both images by
Steff Hughes.

You can also earn international distinctions

More and more CTPS members are entering international sa- for multiple entries from a single club. Circuits offer the best
lons – and performing well! Four of our members have per- value, because this means that one of your entries will be
formed exceptionally well in international salons and have judged by all countries or clubs participating in the circuit –
earned the right to add the international EFIAP Honours to usually three, but sometimes more – and you therefore have
their signatures. What’s more, Neels Beyers, earned the dis- multiple chances for getting acceptances and awards.
tinction EFIAP Silver. Once a year PSSA negotiates a substantial discount for mem-
This means that after Neels met the stringent requirements bers to enter the German International Photocup (GIP), which
for EFIAP, he also had to get 300 acceptances in international is a circuit of four German clubs. This year PSSA won the club
salons with 100 different works in 10 different countries. competition section for the seventh year in a row.
To obtain the EFIAP distinction, a photographer must receive While every entrant gets FIAP acceptance points for each
250 Acceptances in FIAP salons from a minimum of 50 differ- image accepted in the salon, GIP only counts the points that
ent images of which at least 5 must have 3 acceptances. Two of an individual author got in the category (open colour, open
these must receive awards from salons in different countries. mono, nature or travel) that they performed best in. For ex-
Other members like Nicol du Toit and Mariana Visser have ample, Kim Stevens got a medal for her image Working Envi-
earned the AFIAP distinction with 40 acceptances from at ronment in the mono category, an Honourable mention for
least 15 different images in a minimum of 15 FIAP salons in 8 Spitzkoppen Arch Aglow, in the nature category, plus 17 more
countries. Five of the images had to obtain FIAP-acceptances acceptances – but her points tally was 8, because only the
in three different salons. mono acceptances counted. She came 13th in that category.
A long list of international salons with FIAP patronage is pub- Dieter Butow got 17 acceptances, but only the 7 points he
lished on the PSSA website under the International Tab and got in the colour category counted (he was 14th in the cat-
several CTPS members regularly get acceptances and awards egory). CTPS member Francois Roux got 14 acceptances, but
in these salons. Some of them also win international medals, 8 points in nature; Mariana Visser got 11 acceptances (5 points
which you may submit for publication on the PSSA website, in mono); Trudi du Toit got 8 acceptances (5 in nature) and
under International Salon Medal winners. Nicol du Toit’s 7 acceptances gained him 4 points in nature.
This year Nicol du Toit won the GAP Bronze medal in Nature They all contributed to the PSSA’s winning score of 82.
in the Mykonos leg of the Greek Photographic Circuit with If you are interested in gaining international Honours, you
the image The three musketeers. Trudi du Toit received a PCA would be well advised to make an attempt this year, because
Gold Medal in the Nature category of the PCA Arizona Balkan from next year FIAP will require accptances in international
Dream 2023 salon for the image Junior in Trouble. print salons as well. PSSA submits applications on behalf of its
While there are several fairly affordable salons (e.g. $12 to en- members. Contact Jenny Stilwell on jenny@lgss.co.za or visit
ter all four categories) all international salons offer discounts https://pssa.co.za/fiap-distinction-honours-applications.

Medal winners “Working Environment” by Kim Stevens (above left) and “Three Musketeers” by Nicol du Toit (above right).

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