Outback 2025
Conditions of Entry
This exhibition is being conducted under the patronage and recognition of
• the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP)
• the Global Photographic Union (GPU)
• the Australian Photographic Society (APS)
By entering this exhibition, the entrant agrees to comply with the conditions of entry of all organisations as detailed below. Where the rules of any of these patrons’ conflict, the strictest rule applies.
CONTACT:
Chairperson: Gail McTaggart
Country: Australia
Email: outbackipe@gmail.com
ENTRY PROCESS:
Entry into this salon is open to photographers from all countries, amateur or professional. The entry form can be found by logging in or registering on the exhibition website:
https://outbackinternational.myphotoclub.com.au/
Software is provided by: Myphotoclub.com.au
All entries and fees are to be submitted by the link provided on the exhibition website:
https://outbackinternational.myphotoclub.com.au/
SECTIONS:
Outback 2025 consists of one salon. The salon has six sections:
• Open Colour
• Open Monochrome
• People – Portraits (Colour or Monochrome)
• Scapes (Colour or Monochrome)
• World in focus (Colour or Monochrome}
• From Above (Colour or Monochrome}
ENTRY FEES: Note: ENTRY FEES TO THIS EXHIBTION ARE IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS
• 1 section $20 AUD
• Each additional section $5 AUD
Entry fees must be paid before the closing of the competition.
The payment method for this competition is PayPal. Please contact our chairperson for other payment options.
Group Discount:
A group discount facility is available. A discount of 10% is available for groups of 10 or more entrants. The process works as follows:
One person acts as the group manager who makes a single payment to cover all members of the group. The group manager creates a group with a name and an access code.
• To create a group name and access code the group manager follows the green Enter button on the home page, signs in, completes contact details, accepts the terms of entry, and then follows the blue Group Payments button.
• On this page, they select the option to create a group, enter a group name and an access code, and then saves their group. A four-number code will suffice.
• They then contact all prospective members of the group detailing the group name and access code.
• The group manager does not have to enter the competition.
• Each group member then follows the green Enter button, signs in, completes contact details, accepts terms, and then follows the blue Group Payments button.
• They then select the group name in the Join a Group section of the page and enter the access code provided to them by their group manager.
• They then proceed to the entry form and enter their images.
• They will not be able to pay their entry fee as their group manager is responsible for making a single payment for the entire group.
CALENDAR:
| Opening Date | 01 January 2025 |
| Closing Date | 30 March 2025 |
| All judging completed by | 12-14 April 2025 |
| Notifications sent by | 24 April 2025 |
| Awards Mailed by | 14 June 2025 |
| Online gallery posted by | 2 May 2025 |
| Online catalogue posted by | 30 June 2025 |
| Exhibition Dates | 14-18 July 2025 |
JUDGES:
AWARDS:
Background and experience statements for each are available on the exhibition website.
The exhibition will grant the following awards. Acceptance certificates and Salon HM certificates will be emailed to recipients.
A FIAP blue pin is awarded to the entrant with the most acceptances. In the event of a draw the FIAP blue pin will be award to the entrant who has the highest awards and most acceptances. If there is no clear winner, the FIAP blue pin will be awarded at the discretion of the Chairperson and the event committee.
CATALOGUE:
In the general interest of the event, the reproduction of the entered works is allowed in the printed or digital catalogue, and any material related to promoting or publicising the exhibition. In this matter the rules about copyright have to be strictly followed. Under no circumstances is the organiser allowed to use the entered works for other purposes.
A PDF format catalogue for the salon will be downloadable from the web site on the date mentioned in the calendar.
Exhibition Requirements:
Image and entrant requirements: This exhibition is open to anyone; however, an entry may be rejected when the Sponsor or the Exhibition Organizers, in their reasonable discretion, believes the entry does not conform to exhibition rules and these conditions of entry. Membership in any photographic organization is not required.
Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is on the FIAP red list. Entry fees will not be refunded under this condition.
Entry:
An Entry consists of, up to and including, four (4) images entered by a single entrant into the same Section. An entrant may only enter a specific section once. Entrants may not enter identical or similar images into the same section or different sections of the same exhibition. Similar is defined as almost identical in subject, composition, props, lighting, or technique so that a reasonable person viewing the entries together would decide the entrant has duplicated the previous image except for minor changes.
It is strictly forbidden for the author to put identifying text, a signature or any other distinctive mark on the front or facing side of any photo.
Re-use of accepted images:
Any image that has been previously accepted in this salon, may not be entered in this salon again. It may be entered in any other international exhibitions but must always have the same title. Re-titling in another language is not allowed.
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 or of an identical Image into any 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 filenames such as IMG 471). Titles may not consist of personal identifiers possibly augmented by a number; or 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.
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.
DIGITAL IMAGE REQUIREMENTS
This exhibition accepts electronic digital images only – no slides or prints. All entries are to be:
• in sRGB .jpg format
• maximum 3MB file size
• maximum 1920 pixels horizontally, 1080 pixels vertically.
• A border or frame of NO MORE than 5 pixels is allowable
Note that portrait orientation images must still meet the 1080-pixel height limit. Images that exceed any of these maximums will be blocked during the online entry process.
Smaller images may be submitted – these will not be resized to meet the specified pixel limits and will appear smaller when projected for judging.
The upload software will use the name of your image automatically. E.g. The Red Boat.jpg becomes The Red Boat in the competition.
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.
JUDGING METHOD
Judging will be conducted online where the judges will be required to use colour-calibrated monitors that can display pixel dimensions of 1920 x 1080 of the image resolution.
Where the image presented is lower than the maximum resolution the images will not be enlarged beyond their native resolution. At no stage will a judge be able to view all the entrant’s images together.
Each judge will score each image using a range of 1–9 where the higher score signifies a higher quality image. The total of these scores will be used to determine an acceptance percentage. Acceptance rates will not exceed FIAP, GPU, and APS requirements.
DATA PROTECTION
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including physical addresses, email addresses, being held, processed, and used by the exhibition organisers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organisations 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 shall be made public in exhibition gallery, exhibition catalogue.
You also agree and accept the policies regarding Breaches of Rules of FIAP, APS & GPU
SUBJECT MATTER AND SECTION DEFINITIONS
FIAP STATEMENT ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
“Important information regarding pictures generated by artificial intelligence (AI):
Please note that: PICTURES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THIS SALON! It is reminded that all parts of the image must be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. “Offenders will be sanctioned for life!”
MONOCHROME DEFINITION
FIAP Definition of Monochrome
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey (white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in the black and white category; such a work can be reproduced in black and white in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage. On the other hand, a black and white work modified by a partial toning or by the addition of one colour becomes a colour work (polychrome) to stand in the colour category; such a work requires colour reproduction in the catalogue of a salon under FIAP Patronage
COLOUR OPEN SECTION
This section accepts all images which do not meet the definitions of monochrome above.
PEOPLE – PORTRAITS SECTION (Colour or Monochrome)
A photograph of a person or persons that may range from a head study to full body length. This section includes candid photographs showing us people in all situations, such as daily life, street photography, traditions, portraits, people at work, social events, human relations. etc. The main subject in the photo must be one or more humans.
SCAPES SECTION (Colour or Monochrome)
City scapes, Town scapes, Urban scapes: depicts the built form and shape of a city or town (or one of its parts) through general or broad views of buildings and/or streets through the use of composition and light.
Architectural detail images of one or more buildings are not considered cityscapes
Landscape: Is a photograph of natural scenery with land and sky-based elements displayed in a pictorial fashion.
It may include evidence of man, people, animals, even part of the sea provided that none of these additional elements dominate the photograph.
Seascape: Is a photograph of natural coastal scenery, a wave study, or a picture of the open sea, provided, always, that the sea is the centre of interest of the photograph.
People, boats, and man-made structures may be present as incidental to the photograph.
FROM ABOVE SECTION (Colour or Monochrome)
Images entered in this section must be taken from a construction, a higher place or position, “the village terrain is visible from this particular perspective”
WORLD IN FOCUS SECTION (Colour or Monochrome)
Just as travel and tourism pictures, this section englobes the full range of photographic genres from architecture, culture, events, food, landscape, portraits, etc. A “WORLD IN FOCUS” image expresses the spirit of an era, the essence of a place or of a culture whether it is shown in an authentic scene or whether it is arranged. Digital manipulation to optimise an image in terms of finetuning of levels and colours is allowed as long as the image is looking natural. The same counts for removal of dust or digital noise. Techniques that add, relocate, replace, or remove any element of the original image, except by cropping, are not permitted
AGREEMENT TO TERMS
Breaches of FIAP rules
By the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection the following terms:
• that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP,
• that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking
• that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will result in them being sanctioned by FIAP,
• that in case of sanctions following the non-compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform other parties of the entrant’s breaches of the rules.
Concerning entries that originated as digital photographs, authors must preserve intact with no alteration, the original metadata of images.
Any entrant, whose image shows anything suspicious in regard to compliance with FIAP regulations or definitions, can be asked by the organiser or by FIAP, to submit the original capture file (file containing the data recorded by the sensor; i.e.: the RAW or the original unretouched JPEG files) plus the file of the images immediately before and immediately following the questionable image. If the entrant fails to provide what is required, he/she can be sanctioned.
FIAP NOTICE:
Each entrant to FIAP salons must observe the rules of FIAP and conform to the regulations of document 040/2023 E and document 038/2023 E.
Each entrant to FIAP salons must observe the rules of FIAP whether or not he/she is a member of FIAP.
By the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant:
• Acknowledges and accepts that when breaching FIAP regulations he can be sanctioned by FIAP and
• Accepts without exception and with no objection the following general and specific rules concerning the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations:
During the entry process all entrants will be required to tick a box to agree to the following statement.
“I hereby expressly agree to FIAP Document 040/2023 Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage and FIAP document 038/2023 E « Sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list ». I am particularly aware of chapter II « Regulations for International photographic events under FIAP patronage » of FIAP document 040/2023, dealing under Section II.2 and II.3 with the FIAP participation rules, the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list.
Failure to agree will mean that the entry will not proceed.
SALON STATEMENT:
If, at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organiser or the judges before, during, or after the judging of an exhibition that an entrant has submitted entries where one or more images may fail to comply with these Conditions of Entry, including the stated definitions, the exhibition organisers reserve the right to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees will be forfeited in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the decision of the exhibition organisers or the judges is final.
Eventual acceptance rates will be determined by the judges.
APS Conditions of entry
By submitting images to this exhibition in either print or digital form. I agree to accept without exception or objection the following terms:
• To ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry, including all relevant definitions, the exhibition organisers may ask me to provide originally captured images, with EXIF data intact, by a specified deadline.
• If I do not supply the requested image(s) in the specified time those images will be deemed to be in breach of the Conditions of Entry.
• Images that are submitted as requested may be investigated by any means determined appropriate by the exhibition organisers to establish if the image(s) comply with the conditions of entry.
• Images that are deemed by the exhibition organisers to breach the Conditions of Entry will be removed from the exhibition. Any acceptances or awards allocated to those images will become void.
The exhibition organizers will provide APS with details of all breaches of the Conditions of Entry. APS retains the right to impose sanctions on entrants deemed to have repeatedly breached the Conditions of Entry of any APS Approved exhibition.
By virtue of submitting an entry, the entrant certifies the work as his/her own (aliases are not permitted).
By submitting an entry, the entrant certifies that in the process of capturing the image the entrant did not violate any of the standards of ethical practice of FIAP, GPU or APS.
Titles must use the English alphabet and can contain no more than 35 characters (including spaces). Image titles may be in a foreign language, but the English alphabet must be used.
The titles of entries should be exactly as you want them to appear in the catalogue.
No title or identification of the maker shall be visible anywhere on the image or the title.
Titles will not be announced at judging.
Entrants automatically agree to these terms by the act of entering the Exhibition.
COPYRIGHT AND ORIGIN OF IMAGES
All parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. In the general interest of the event, the reproduction of the entered works is allowed in the printed or digital catalogue, and any material related to promoting or publicising the exhibition. In this matter the rules about copyright must be strictly followed. Under no circumstances is the organiser allowed to use the entered works for other purposes.
PATRONAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS
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