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  10th International Exhibition of Photography  
  "MNE PBK 2025"  
  PROPOSITIONS AND PARTICIPATION    
 

 

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We will not extend closing date - please upload your photos on time


10th International Exhibition of Photography

MNE PBK 2025

PSA 2025-1787


ORGANISERS
MNE PBK is international contest of art photography, Montenegro

CONTACTS 
Chair: Aleksandar Bogojevic, Belvederska 91, Podgorica

Exhibition Email address: office@photoclubmontenegro.com

Location of Entry Form: http://www.photoclubmontenegro.com/
Log in to your profile if not first time or REGISTER if first time

Website: https://photoclubmontenegro.com

SECTIONS
There are 5 sections, all digital:
A) OPEN COLOR (color only) PID-C
B) OPEN MONOCHROME (monochrome only) PID-M
C) PORTRAIT (monochrome only) PID-M
D) ARCHITECTURE (color only) PID-C
E) LIFE (color only) PID-C

ENTRY FEE
15 Eur for all 5 sections

Possible ways of payment:
- PayPal transfer (office@photoclubmontenegro.com)

Bank cheques, Personal cheques and Postal money orders are NOT accepted.
Any entry without payment completed will not be judged.
Discounts are not allowed.

CALENDAR
Closing date: 10.03.2025.
Last date of judging: 03.04.2025.
Score reports sent by: 10.04.2025.
Awards mailed by: 02.06.2025.
On-Line Gallery posted by: 10.04.2025.
On-line Catalog posted by: 02.06.2025.
Status page and website available to: 03.04.2026.

JUDGES
John CHAPMAN: GMPSA, EFIAP/p, APSEM ARPS, (Australia)
Veniero RUBBOLI: EFIAP/d3, BFI, FG-ISF Hon.PESGSPC, Hon.FICS, (Italy)
Nikola VULIKIC: (Montenegro)

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.

AWARDS
1 PSA Gold medal in each section (5 altogether)
1 SALON Gold, Silver, Bronze medals in each section (15 altogether)
3 SALON e-honorable mentions in each section (15 altogether).

DPA Badge for the best Author


Medals will be posted.  E-awards will be downloadable from the exhibition website.

NOTIFICATION
All participants will receive report card notification via e-mail.
The results of the exhibition will also be published on the website:
www.photoclubmontenegro.com

CATALOG
PDF Downloadable from web site by exhibitors on our web site: 
www.photoclubmontenegro.com

DIGITAL ENTRY SUBMISSION
AUTHOR MUST FILL OUT ENTRY FORM AND SUBMIT PHOTOS ONLINE
1) All entries of digital images, please upload the files to the following address: www.photoclubmontenegro.com  
For any enquiries, please e-mail: office@photoclubmontenegro.com
2) Photos must be in in JPG file format, Max image width (horizontal) is 1920 pixels. Max. 
image height (vertical) is 1080 pixels.in 300 dpi. Compression 7-12, max 2Mb
3) Any entries not conforming to the above requirements may not be shown to the Judging 
Panel and the entry fee will not be refunded.

ACCEPTANCES AND AWARDS

Judging Method
- Remote judging of images will be with colour calibrated computer monitors (minimum 19 
inches) or high-definition TV screens at exactly 100% of the submitted pixel size (1920x1080 pixels).
- An award session will be done at the videoconference by a jury viewing the images together.
- Equipment will not resize any submitted images or change the aspect ratio of the original 
image to “Fit to screen” or to “Fill screen” by monitors or HDTV equipment.
- Exhibitions are not allowed to resize images. In such cases the entrant is required to resubmit their entry with properly sized images.

Target Acceptance Range
-     The target acceptance rate 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.

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, ?, ?, ?, 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 & 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://psa-photo.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.

Portrait Definition (Monochrome Only) PID M

Our definition of the Portrait section: a photograph of a person or group of people who are 
aware they are being photographed.

Architecture Definition (Color Only) PID C

The closest definition of Architecture section, photography where the only condition is that the subject is architecture.

Life Definition (Color Only) PID C
The closest definition of Life photos, pictures of everyday life on which depict people, events, phenomena - Life itself.

EXHIBITION SPECIFIC RULES:
Borders
For the purpose of this exhibition any border added to a digital file must be a single border of white or grey, no greater than 3-5 pixels in width.

License agreement:
By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies legal Age, and own all rights to these images, including copyright or parents or guardians gives permission on his/her behalf if he/she is not 
of Legal Age.
The exhibition assumes no liability for any misuse of copyright.

Email Spam Blocking:
Confirmations of entry submittals and Report Cards will be sent to entrants. Please be sure 
that this email address gets included in your “safe” email addresses to assure receipt of these emails instead of having them blocked by your security system. Also check your Junk E-Mail 
or Spam folder to see if your email software placed any messages from the exhibition there.

PSA RULES
Non-compliance
See the PSA Ethics Policy at https://psa-photo.org/page/ethical-practices.

See the PSA statement on Subject Matter, Statement on Artificial Intelligence, and Image Creation and Authorship at https://psa-photo.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
:
Agencies and third-party entities who process or submit images on an entrant’s behalf must register with Exhibition Services. This is to ensure both the agency and the entrants are aware 
of the rules prior to submitting images. Agencies who frequently submit images which 
incur violations may also be penalized.
Entrants will be held responsible for adhering to the entry rules and will be subject to penalties for any violations to these Conditions of Entry or to PSA’s Statement of Ethics, regardless of whether they submit images through a third party or not.

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://psa-photo.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.

 


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