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Cape Camera January 2025
2025 Salons to take note of

There are 12 national salons for seniors and 13 salons

for juniors remaining until the end of the Impala Tro-
phy Year on 30 June 2025. We've indicated some inter-

esting categories in some of these salons, and marked
the Western Cape salons where members from our re-

gion's clubs will be judging, in red. Our members tend
to get more acceptances in these local salons.

2025-02-08 – 13th National AFO Salon (Brochure 2025-05-31 – 3rd Kriel Foto Club Salon
available) 2025-06-07 – 1st Ballito Photo Club National Salon
2025-02-22 – Amber Camera Club 3rd Digital Salon 2025-06-14 – TAF 14th Print & PDI Salon
(Brochure available)
2025-06-21 – PSSA 27th Up and Coming (Brochure
2025-03-08 – 9th PSSA National Salon (Brochure available)
available) Only for Junior members and scholars. Entry in
Two interesting categories: Our Country (manip- the salon is free. The brochure states: The main
ulation allowed) and Visual Art. Our Country is purpose of this competition is to create an oppor-
defined as any image that represents or depicts tunity for club members and scholars, who do not
any aspect of the country, South Africa. CTPS yet feel ready for National Salons, to compete in
members will judge the Open category. a national competition with their peers.
2025-03-15 – 8th Bosveld Fotografieklub Salon
(Brochure updated) Group discount for GIP salon
Animal portraits category, where manipulation is In 2024 PSSA participating as a club won the prestig-
allowed. ious German International Photocup (GIP) for the 8th

2025-03-22 – 1st Hillcrest Camera Club Digital Salon time in a row. PSSA has again arranged a special dis-
(Brochure available) counted price for our group in 2025: It will now cost
you 19 Euro to enter all four categories of the circuit
2025-04-05 – 7th Paarl National Salon of Photog- of three German clubs, or 14 Euro for two categories.
raphy (Brochure available) Entering this circuit is the equivalent of entering three
Interesting category: Architecture in mono- individual international salons. See more about the
chrome. CTPS members are judging the Human competition at https://www.germanphotocup.de/
Portraits category and three more categories are landingpage-en.html.
being judged by Western Cape club members.
Closing date for entries 19 March.
2025-04-19 – 9th MFFC PDI Salon 2025 (Brochure
available) To qualify for the discount, you must please not pay
Animal portraits category, where manipulation is for your entry, but wait until you learn what you must
pay into the PSSA account after the closing date. They
allowed. will pay on behalf of all PSSA participants. Please en-
2025-05-03 – SSCC 8th National PDI Salon (Brochure ter PSSA as your club and send an email to (johann@
vailable) vdwalt.net) and Francois Roux (froux@jbv.co.za) to in-
Interesting category: Creative. They define it as: form them that you will be participating.
images that go beyond the straightforward pic- The high number of medals won by PSSA members in
torial rendering of a scene. The image does not previous GIP salons had put a financial burden on the
have to employ derivative or manipulative tech- association when PSSA had to pay for these individual
niques to be Creative or Visual Art. medals delivered by courier to one address to be dis-
tributed. PSSA therefore requests that the 2025 medal
2025-05-17 – PECC National Salon (Brochure winners, and members who ordered the printed cata-
available) logue, pay for the delivery from PSSA at their own cost.
Interesting category: Visual Art.

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