39th FIAP Youth Digital Biennial 2018

INVITATION

Academy of Photography Bulgaria “Yanka Kyurkchieva” organizes, under the Patronage of the FIAP Youth Service, the 39th FIAP Youth Digital in 2018 and invites young authors of all countries, member of FIAP, to participate in this Youth contest.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

Each national association member of FIAP may enter 20/20 digital works (max.2 works per author).

WORKS SIZE

Files for the projection and for the creation of a catalogue will be JPG format, 10 or 8 compression and bigger, minimum size 2400 pixels. All styles and creative techniques are allowed. The entrant must use the western alphabet for submitting an entry with the country name followed by a number 01 to 20 and it is not allowed to use designations such as “no title” unnamed etc.(example: IRELAND01.jpg, IRELAND02.jpg, etc.)
The images must have a photographic origin. The authors must detain all the rights of their images as a whole and for every part thereof.
They permit the publication related to the projection (exhibition) of their images free of charge. This may include low resolution posting on a website.
WARNING: Nude works are strictly forbidden!

The images files can be send via Wetransfer or other free ftp web server.
The completed entry form must be send to these following mails:
office@photoacademy.org and copy to
k.batschinski@fiap.net.
Note: Please, after the finishing of uploading of your country collection, write and send to us a second confirmation mail (on office@photoacademy.org) from the same mail, from which you uploaded the images on ftp server. As “subject” write this text – “This is the collection of (name of the country) for enter in 39th FIAP Youth Digital 2018 in Bulgaria“
Thank you!

ENTRY FEE – No entry fee!

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

President: Yavor Popov, President of APB “Yanka Kyurkchieva
Secretary: Elena Maslarova
Treasurer: Yuriy Treyman, Vice President of APB “Yank Kuyrkchieva”
Members:
Nadezhda Pavlova
Rossen Rusinov
Denis Buchel
Velitchka Todorovoa
Anton Savov (Liaison Officer for Bulgaria)

JUDGEMENT

The works in each of the two age categories will be judged separately by a renowned jury and be ordered from the FIAP Youth Service Director with the Organizer. The judgement will be carried out according to the instructions of FIAP, with no right of appeal. The jury members from different countries must understand the latest photo shooting and photo techniques, which is frequently being used by today´s youth.
Category I. up to the age of 16 (born after 31.03.2002)
Category II. up to the age of 21 (born after 31.03.1997)

PANEL OF SELECTORS

Freddy Van Gilbergen, MFIAP, EFIAP/s, HonEFIAP, Vice-President of FIAP – Belgium
Gavrovski Cvetan, MFFSM, EFIAP – F.Y.R of Macedonia
Milojevic Rasa, EFIAP/b, EsFIAP, MFFSS – Serbia

Alternates:
Lykouris Ioannis, MFIAP – Greece
Milojevic Rasa, EFIAP/b, EsFIAP, MFFSS – Serbia
Rudich Boro, AFIAP – F.Y.R of Macedonia

PRIZES

World Cup Awards offered by the organizer and sponsors for the best national federation.
FIAP Gold medal for the federation which comes second.
FIAP Silver medal for the federation which comes third.
FIAP Bronze medal for the federation which comes fourth.
FIAP diplomas for the federations which come 5th to 7th.
All the authors of the federation coming to the World Cup receive diplomas.
One FIAP gold, two silver and tree bronze medal will award works of exceptional quality, independently of the federations` classification.
Each author can only receive one prize.
One APB gold medal will be awarded by the organizing country

CATALOGUE

The catalogue will be produced with all awarded images and a wide selection of the accepted images, along side the list of all the accepted images per country and the list of award-winning authors. (The CD can be produced with a programme allowing it to work with no difficulty).
The catalogue (CD) will show the FIAP logo on the cover with the appropriate Biennial number. On the CD all the compulsory statistics about the salon must be recorded.
The author agrees that his images may be published in a catalogue and on an Internet WEB page free of charge. The images will not be used in a commercial context. There is no possibility of recourse to legal action.

CALENDAR

Closing date for entries: 31.03.2018
Judgement: 13.-15.04.2018
Results mailed to Youth Biennial service: 26.04.2018
Sending of CD/Catalogues: 31.07.2018
Show/Exhibition: 13-30.06.2018, National Palace of Culture – Congress Centre Sofia (NDK)

ENTRIES

The entry form and all entries must be addressed to: (Closing date : 31.03.2018)
39th FIAP Youth Digital Biennial
Mr. Yuriy Treyman – +359 8 88455127
Mrs. Elena Maslarova – Tel.:+359 894585840
Email: office@photoacademy.org

A copy of the entry form (notification form) must be sent to:
Mr. Kurt BATSCHINSKI, HonEFIAP
Director of FIAP Youth Service
Nürnbergerstrasse 43
A-9500 VILLACH
Austria
Or by email to: k.batschinski@fiap.net

39th FIAP YOUTH DIGITAL BIENNIAL 2018
Mr. Yuriy Treyman – APB “Yanka Kyurkchieva”, “San Stefano” 14B street, 1504 SOFIA, Bulgaria
Director of FIAP Youth Biennials
Kurt BATSCHINSKI, HonEFIAP

Downloading the official FIAP documents and entry forms (on english and french):

39th FIAP Youth Digital Biennial 2018  (INFO 080 / 2017 E)

39ème Biennale Jeunesse Digitale de la FIAP 2018  (INFO 080 / 2017 F)

Category I. up to the age of 16 (born after 31.03.2002)

Category II. up to the age of 21 (born after 31.03.1997)