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John Alexander

succeeds with LPSSA in mono

In this year’s July PSSA Honours judging round John Alexander of CTPS
was the only applicant to successfully apply for an LPSSA in mono

John Alexander would be known to CTPS members you must submit a panel of 10 images, for APSSA 15 im-
for his strikingly moody monochrome portrait studies, ages and FPSSA 25 images.
which usually earn him such high scores in club compe- Two-thirds (66.6%) of the judges must pass all the imag-
titions. These now also earned him LPSSA Honours — es in an application in order for it to be successful. Im-
even though it is notoriously difficult to earn Honours ages that missed passing by only one or two judges are
in monochrome. John’s panel was the only LPSSA mon- discussed and the judges may then rescore them. An
ochrome application to succeed in the latest Honours applicant is invited to submit an additional image if the
judging round in July. panel misses passing by one image.
Theo Potgieter of Tafelberg Fotografieklub, who is a In every session only a minority of panels are passed in
CTPS member too, also succeeded with an APSSA col- full — in July less than a third of the applications suc-
our panel. ceeded. But, this does not mean a fail for a panel that
It is not easy for a PSSA member to be awarded Honours was not successful the first time.
in any medium when they submit a panel of work to be Provided that a minimum of 30% images in the panel re-
evaluated by the discerning group of Honours Judges. ceived credits, these credits are valid for two years from
These judges, who must be active competition entrants the date of the original application. A credit may not be
and have at least FPSSA Hounours, meet twice a year — failed by a judge in subsequent sessions during the time
in January and July. Over a weekend they decide wheth- of its validity.
er they consider a panel worthy of earning the PSSA An applicant therefore has four successive sessions in
member a Licentiateship (LPSSA), Associateship (APSSA), which to try and get all his/her remaining images credit-
Fellowship (FPSSA), etc. of the organisation. For LPSSA ed — if unsuccessful, the credits fall away.

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