PSA: 2025 - 1897
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ORGANISED BY:

Campina Photographic Exhibitions Society:
campinaexhibitions@yahoo.com

CONTACTS

Razvan Baleanu, E.PSA, B.PSA, A.FIAP, GPU CR2, Hon.FICS, Hon.MICS, ES.USPA, Hon.EFMPA, Hon.WPG, HON.F.WPG, Hon.WPAI, Hon.PESGSPC, GPA.PESGSPC, Hon.FSAP, Hon.EUSPA, Hon.FPPS, Hon.FTPAS, Hon.EIUSF, Hon.FSWAN, Hon.FOZIPS, Hon.HKNPS, CMP.PPI, HA.PPI, Hon.FCPA, Hon.FGNG, Hon.AMAP, Hon.APF, Hon.GMGNG, Hon.FPMP, Hon.PIPC, Hon.M.TPAS, Hon.NVPC, Hon.G.MWPG, E.AAFR, A.ICS, A.WIEP. (Romania)

Address: Str. Republicii, Nr. 32, Bl. 15 F, Sc. A, Ap. 9, Campina, 105600, Romania
Email: razvanbaleanu@gmail.com
Location of Entry Form: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/EntryForm
Website: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep

SECTIONS

Five sections - all digital:

COLOR OPEN (color only) – PSA PIDC
MONOCHROME OPEN (monochrome only) – PSA PIDM
NATURE GENERAL (color or greyscale monochrome) – PSA ND
PHOTO TRAVEL GENERAL (color or greyscale monochrome) – PSA PTD
PHOTOJOURNALISM GENERAL (color or monochrome) – PSA PJD

FEES

1 section 10 $ USD
2 sections 15 $ USD
3 sections 20 $ USD
4 sections 23 $ USD
5 sections 25 $ USD

PayPal (preferred method) Entry fee can be paid with PayPal through our web site automatically after upload images: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/Payment
Or manually at Exhibition PayPal ID Address: campinaexhibitions@yahoo.com
Western Union
Alternatively, the fee may also be paid with Western Union on the following info:
Name: Razvan Constantin Baleanu, Country: Romania.
Postal Mail
Alternatively, the fee can be sent by postal mail to following address: Razvan Baleanu, Str. Republicii, Nr. 32, Bl. 15 F, Sc. A, Ap. 9, Campina, 105600, Romania
If, for some reason, you cannot pay the fee, please e-mail Exhibition Chairman and we will find a solution: razvanbaleanu@gmail.com
Entry fee is mandatory for every participant. The works of the participants who do not pay the fee by the closing date will not be taken into consideration.

CALENDAR

Closing date: 1 November 2025
All judging completed by: 29 November 2025
Score Reports sent by: 06 December 2025
Awards mailed by: 28 January 2026
Online Gallery posted by: 28 November 2025
Online Catalog posted by: 28 January 2026
Status Page and Website available to: 29 November 2026
Public Exhibition: 15 January 2026

Awards Ceremony, Public Projection and Print Exhibition
15 January 2026: Campina House of Culture, Romania
Digital Slide Show program will be displayed using a Full HD Projector, Sony VPL-HW45 - 1920x1080.
High Quality Print Exhibition and Public Video Projections will be hold in many locations to promote accepted and awarded works!
The printed exhibition will contain a selection of awarded and accepted photographs.
The exhibition will be open to the public in the period 15 January 2026 - 15 February 2026

JUDGES

For all 5 sections:

TIBOR JAKAB, EFIAP/gold, FPSA, MPSA, ASIIPC, Hon.FPSG, Hon.FICS, GM.ICS, Hon.PESGSPS. (Romania)

TEODOR RADU PANTEA, EFIAP/silver, EH.ISF, PSA***(CPID), PSA**(PPD), PSA**(PJ), Hon.ICS, F.ICS, AICS, Hon.F.PAD, Hon.F.ICS, E.USPA, F.SWAN, Hon.F.SWAN, E.FMPA, Hon.IPS, HonFKSS, HonTAMA, Hon.API, UAPR, Hon.FPSBP, BPICS, GMICS, Hon.FPSG, Hon.SAP, Hon.FUPHK, M.E.UPHK, Hon.CR.UPHK, Hon.EPI, Hon.FIVAF, Hon.WPG, Hon.FWPG, M.SAP, Hon.PESGSPC, GPA.PESGSPC, Hon.E.IUSF, HonCPE, Hon.FSPAS, FAPU, Hon.EICS/PSBP, Hon.MWPG, Hon.MICS, F.HKNPS, Hon.F.HKNPS, CMP.PPI (Fine Art and Documentary/Pictorial), Honorary Advisor PPI (2020-2021), Hon.GMGNG, Hon.FPMP, Hon.GMPIPC, Hon.APF, Hon.PIP.ICS, Hon.G.MWPG, GWP.ICS, Hon.MICS, Hon.FAPA, GM.SAP, GEP.SAP, Hon.E.WPG, Hon.PE.SAP, Ex- M.AAFR, Ex- Hon.AAFR (Romania)

MIRCEA ANGHEL, AFIAP, HON.FICS (Romania)

PSA Rules for the Judging Process
• 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.
The jury’s decision is final and irrevocable.

AWARDS

Total 191 High Quality Medals and Awards! Only Real Awards!

For each section:
1 PSA Gold Medal
2 Campina Exhibitions Gold Medal
1 Campina Exhibitions Silver Medal
1 Campina Exhibitions Bronze Medal
2 CIEP Gold Medal
1 CIEP Silver Medal
1 CIEP Bronze Medal
3 PSA Honorable Mentions
16 Campina Exhibitions Honorable Mentions
8 CIEP Honorable Mentions

Additional for Color Open Section will be awarded:
1 GPU Gold Medal
2 GPU Honorable Mentions

BEST AUTHOR - Special Award Plaque
BEST CLUB - Special Award Plaque
BEST GROUP - Special Award Plaque
5 CLUB AWARDS - Special Awards Plaques and Printed Certificates (if there are enough participating clubs)

To be eligible for Club or Group Award, minimum 5 participants from a club or group must participate and pay their entry individual fees. Club or Group Awards will be sent to a single address as communicated by the identified Group Leader.

Plus more Club and Individual Special Awards Plaques and Printed Certificates if we have many participants!

We will increase the number of individual awards and club awards if we have many participants!
- The jury reserves the right to grant additional awards depend on the total number of the entrants.
- The organizer is also required to reduce the number of awards based on the total number of acceptances.

All prizes are real and will be shipped with the premium recommended postal service with track number!

NOTIFICATION

Notification cards will be sent by email, Report Card with individual judge's scores for each participant. The results, all the images accepted and awards will be posted on our web site in a permanent gallery:www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/Results

CATALOG

Online PDF Exhibition Catalog will be sent to all authors by email. Also the on-line catalog will be available for download on our web site: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/catalog

DIGITAL ENTRY SUBMISSION

Online Entry Form (preferred method)
Authors must fill out an Online Entry Form on the official website and submit entries online: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/EntryForm
- Photos must be in jpeg format. Maximum image horizontal is 1920 pixels, maximum image vertical is 1080 pixels. File size maximum is 2 MB.
- Smaller image are accepted but will not fill the available screen size.
- Exhibitions are not allowed to resize oversized images. In such cases the entrant is required to
resubmit their entry with properly sized images.

Postal Mail
Images may be burned on CD/DVD, along with the entry form and entry fee, sent to the postal mail. Images should have the same size as the online registration.
Address: Razvan Baleanu, Str. Republicii, Nr. 32, Bl. 15 F, Sc. A, Ap. 9, Campina, 105600, Romania. Download Entry Form: www.campinaexhibitions.net/ciep/EntryForm

If, for some reason, you cannot send your pictures, please e-mail Exhibition Chairman and we will find a solution: razvanbaleanu@gmail.com

ACCEPTANCES AND AWARDS

Judging method:
- Judges will use color-calibrated monitors on remote on-line judging. The monitors will be capable of displaying images at exactly 100% of their resolution. That is - the images will not be enlarged beyond their native resolution
- An award session will be held on-line by the judges viewing the images together.
Target Acceptance Range
- The acceptance target range will be no more than 30% in each section.
- No image may receive more than one individual award in a section, but in circuits an image may receive an award in different salon sections. Only one award can be given to an entrant in any one section.
- For sections with more than 230 images, no more than 10% of the acceptances can receive medals/awards.

Each author will receive the acceptance certificate in electronic format sent by email.
Acceptances Certificates sent: 28 January 2026

EXHIBITION REQUIREMENTS

Image and Entry Requirements: This exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the exhibition chair believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these ES-COE. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.


Neither awards nor acceptances will be granted to 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 a name change or relocation to another country. Using one’s name differently in different exhibitions exposes the entrant to the risk that many of their acceptances may not be recognized in PSA Star records.

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. PSA may request specific permission from entrants to reproduce entered images in its educational materials. The terms of that permission will be mutually agreed upon 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, or to illustrate serious exhibition rule violations. For those reproductions, the entrant’s name will be withheld.
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 recognized 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. The same image can receive no more than a total of twenty (20) acceptances (per star path). Identical or similar Images shall not be allowed in the same section or different sections of the same exhibition as determined by the judges or exhibition chair. Similar images are those which are practically equivalent, as defined on this page: https://psa-services.org/pdf/Practical-Equivalence.pdf . When a group of similar images is uploaded by the entrant, all similar images in all sections will be disqualified. Be advised: while similar images may be entered in different exhibitions, these images and acceptances may be disallowed by the separate review process associated with applications for stars, diamonds and galaxies. To avoid disappointment, do not enter images that are practically equivalent.

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 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 file names such as IMG_xxxx). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; and may not 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. When entering titles, exhibitors may use Latin1 or Latin2 character sets (ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2) which allow diacritical marks (é, ñ, ü, ą, ę, ś, etc). While text written in non-Latin writing systems (Hanzi, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, etc) might be accepted by exhibition software, this practice is discouraged because it may yield unpredictable results in galleries, catalogs and may be rejected in Star applications.

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.

DATA PROTECTION

By entering this exhibition you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including physical addresses and email addresses being held, processed and used by the exhibition chair 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 will be made public in the exhibition gallery and exhibition catalog. You also agree and accept the policy regarding noncompliance to the rules of PSA.

SUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS

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://psaphotoworldwide.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 to 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.

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 or injured 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, using drones, helicopters, or low flying aircraft. These should not cause any interference with other individuals or animals which causes a disturbance in their normal activity or disrupts the way any individual or animal interacts 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 the above policies. The images must comply with the division and section definitions listed on the PSA website and other conditions. Images that do not comply will be disqualified by the judges.

PSA Color Definition
The Image category for PID color must be a color image. 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 color on a monochrome image is considered a Color Image.

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 gray which can include pure black and pure white) or it gives the impression of being a grayscale image that has been toned in one color across the entire image (for example by sepia, red, gold, etc.) A grayscale 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.
• Monochrome images may not be entered in color sections of PPD or PID.

Pictorial Image Division Definition
PID includes open or general subject photography. There are no limitations on subject matter or techniques used for image capture or post processing other than the restrictions described in the PSA Statements on Artificial Intelligence, Image Creation and Authorship, and Subject Matter, which apply to all divisions. These restrictions include prohibited image elements not authored by the entrant (for example textures, replacement skies from third party software, clipart or stock images). Open sections have unrestricted subject content and may include creative images. PID theme sections have specific definitions which assist both the judges and entrants.

PSA/FIAP Nature Division
Content Guidelines
Nature photography records all branches of natural history except anthropology and archaeology. This includes all aspects of the physical world, both over water and underwater.
Nature images must convey the truth of the scene. A well-informed person should be able to identify the subject of the image and be satisfied that it has been presented honestly and that no unethical practices have been used to control the subject or capture the image. Images that directly or indirectly show any human activity threatening a living organism's life or welfare are not allowed.

The most important part of a Nature image is the nature story it tells. High technical standards are expected and the image must look natural.

When photographing at a zoo, sanctuary, or rehabilitation center, it would be construed that the photographer ensured that it’s properly accredited and conforms to best practices.

Attention is drawn to the PSA Statements on Artificial Intelligence and Subject Matter which apply to all sections.

Editing Guidelines:
Processing or editing must be limited to making the image look as close to the original scene as possible, except that conversion to grayscale monochrome is allowed.

Allowed Editing Techniques: Editing Techniques That Are Not Allowed:
Photo Travel Division Definition
A Photo Travel image is a portrayal of the real world we live in, as it is found naturally. There are no geographic limitations.

Content Guidelines:
  1. If the image is predominantly or exclusively a land, sea or cityscape, these “scapes” must include characteristic and distinctive physical features, although it is not necessary that the image identify the exact location.
  2. Images that predominantly or exclusively depict people and their activities must illustrate a distinctive culture of a country, region, or continent.
  3. Images that predominantly or exclusively depict animal populations are allowed if the animals are in their native environment and are characteristic of that country, region, or continent.
  4. Portraits or other close-ups of people or objects, in addition to meeting the above paragraphs as applicable, must include elements depicting some of the surrounding environment to make it obvious that the image was not taken in a studio setting. Images from events or activities arranged for photography, or of subjects directed or hired for photography, are not allowed.
  5. Time exposures are allowed, if they do not dominate the image as a special effect (star trails, for example, are a dominating effect).
  6. Highly distorted images such as those produced by fisheye lenses are not allowed.

Editing Guidelines: Processing or editing must be limited to making the image look as close to the original scene as possible, except that conversion to grayscale monochrome is allowed.

Allowed Editing Techniques:
Editing Techniques That Are Not Allowed:
Photojournalism Division Definition
Photojournalism Entries Are:
Editing Guidelines for PJ: Processing or editing is limited to making the image look as close to the original scene as possible, or complete conversion to monochrome.

Allowed Editing Techniques:
Editing Techniques That Are Not Allowed:

PSA RULES

Non-compliance
See the PSA Ethics Policy at https://psaphotoworldwide.org/page/ethical-practices.
See the PSA statement on Subject Matter, Statement on Artificial Intelligence, and Image Creation and Authorship at https://psaphotoworldwide.org/page/division-definitions
If an entrant submits an image that appears to be non-compliant, the chair or judges may request the unedited or raw file of the submitted image to verify compliance, including authorship. For composite images all files are required. Such entries may be referred to PSA for further investigation of possible ethics violations. Entrants who do not respond to this request or who do not cooperate with the investigation team may be penalized.
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, and add the entrant’s name to the PSA Penalty List which is shared with PSA and FIAP chairs. Entrants automatically agree to these terms by entering the Exhibition.

Agents and other indirect submissions:


NOTICE: When entrants fill in the entry form to submit an entry they will see the following feature to affirm they have read these COE
“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 here: https://psaphotoworldwide.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.