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More entries from CTPS members in the Four Nations
Competition.
Above: 'The Conductor" by John Alexander was entered in
the Mono category.
Two CTPS images were accepted in the Our Country
category:
Above right: 'Lions Head' by Ana Kaplan.
Right: 'Tafelberg met skuimstroke' by Neels Beyers.

PSSA will host the next FIAP Nature

Biennial , to be judged in Cape Town.
Members are invited to submit entries.

Take part in the 2026 FIAP Nature Biennial

PSSA members are invited to submit four nature images The image size and crop must be 16:9 at 300dpi, 2400
to be considered for the PSSA entry in the 23rd Nature pixels minimum and 3500 pixels maximum on the
Biennial, hosted in South Africa in 2026. You will be largest side The maximum file size is 6MB.
able to enter on PhotoVaultOnline (PVO) under PSSA To load on Photovault the normal image size will apply
Specific—Nature Biennial 2026. The closing date is (1920px W by 1080px H).
Saturday 18 October 2025. Read more here. No image previously used in a FIAP Biennial can be used

Biennials, hosted by a different member country every again
two years, are some of the most important events
offered by FIAP. Images must comply with the FIAP Nature Definition
and FIAP General Conditions (see below):
Unlike other international competitions, the Biennials
have a particular characteristic, namely that the • The entrant accepts that the submitted images can be
coherence of the team entry is also evaluated. The investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey FIAP
entered collections are therefore judged in two steps regulations and definitions, even if the entrant is not
— first each work in the entry is evaluated, followed a member of FIAP
by a global judgement of the collection. The points are • Any refusal to cooperate with FIAP, to submit the origi-
added together to determine who the World Cup winner nal files, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will
will be. be sanctioned by FIAP
There are two sections that you can enter: Birds in • Photographers must preserve (intact and unchanged)
action (maximum 2 Images) and Mammals in action the original metadata of the images. If an image does
(maximum 2 images). not include the original EXIF data, it will not be eligible
to participate in the Biennial.
PSSA will select 30 images from the entries received — • Pictures created by artificial intelligence are not al-
10 as prints and 20 as digital images. lowed in the FIAP Biennials. All the parts of the image
Please note: images entered in international have to be photographed by the author, who is hold-
and PSSA competitions and salons must ing the copyright of all works submitted. Offenders
contain Exif data. RAW files must be available. will be sanctioned for life!

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