LABARTO 2025

GENERAL
LABARTO CIRCUIT 2025 – New Camera Club, Salon Switzerland
LABARTO CIRCUIT 2025 – Greenland Photo Art, Salon Greenland
LABARTO CIRCUIT 2025 – MG Photo Forum, Salon Madagascar

The salon is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. Entrants must be authors of the works they submit. Each participant may send maximum of 4 photographs to each section.

SECTIONS                                                                                                                                                          

A) OPEN COLOR –  ( Color )
B) OPEN MONO –  ( Monochrome )
C) NATURE –  ( Color and Monochrome )
D) PEOPLE –  ( Color and Monochrome )

An image may only be entered in one section.

CALENDAR
Closing date: 24. February, 2025
Judging: 01-10. March, 2025
Results: 17, March, 2025
Exibition Public Showings: 31. March, 2025
Awards and Catalog: 10. May, 2024

ENTRY FEE
Entry fee is 25 EUR for one first Section, each additional section is 5 EUR.
Possible ways of payment is PayPal.
Discount for Group entries from 10 authors is 20%.
Please contact us per Email.

IMAGE FILE NAMING
File name should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue (same as title name).
Each image must have a unique title with maximum 35 characters (incl. space).
Please use English alphabet and numeric (A-z 0-9).
Please do not use accents and other characters.

JUDGING
The judges will Award the Acceptances, Medals and Honorable Mentions of the entered images. The one who has achieved the highest number of total acceptances of all the sections of the salon added together will be proclaimed “best author”. Judges would use Full HD Display 1080P (1920x1080). The target rate of acceptances is 30%.

JURY MEMBERS   
Salon Switzerland
Miriam Bennouna, AFIAP, Switzerland;
Ljiljana Vrzic, PPSA, Serbia;
Angelina Alic, ANCC, Germany;

Salon Greenland
Oliver Vukmirovic, AFIAP, PPSA; Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Dejan Stojanovic, AFIAP, EPAM, Montenegro;
Slavica Bourgeois, ENCC, Schweiz;

Salon Madagascar
Nenad Nikolic, EFIAP , QPSA, Serbia;
Krekovic Dragica, AFIAP, ENCC, Switzerland;
Razafinandrianina Tiana, EMGA, Madagascar;

AWARDS (495)
Salon Switzerland (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

Salon Greenland (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

Salon Madagascar (165)
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge (1 per salon);
FIAP Gold Medals; (1 per section)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
NCC diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
NCC Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 8 per section)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)
GRE diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf, 3 per section)
GRE Honourable Mentions (digital pdf, 6 per section)

RESULT AND CATALOG     
Each participant will receive the Report card and Catalog PDF per email.

ACCEPTANCES AND AWARDS
Judging MethodJudges will use color-calibrated Full HD Display 1080P (1920×1080 pixels). The equipment will be capable of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution.
–  The judging will be held that each jury vote for each image from 1 to 10 points.
–  The one who has achieved the highest number of total acceptances of all the sections of the salon added together will be proclaimed “FIAP best author”.
–  The score of accepted images is counted by sum of all jury member points 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.

EMAILS 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 ensure 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.

AWARDS SHIPPING
Digital awards (PDF) will be sent via email. FIAP medals will be sent to each entrant by post.

 

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FIAP Nature definition
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.

• Objects created by humans, and evidence of human activity, are allowed in Nature images only when they are a necessary part of the Nature story.
• Photographs of human-created hybrid plants, cultivated plants, feral animals, domesticated animals, human-created hybrid animals, and mounted or preserved zoological specimens are not allowed.
• Photographs made where the scene is natural and the animal is unharmed in a carefully managed environment, such as Zoo, rescue centers, and ethically managed natural environment farms are permitted.
• Attracting or controlling subjects through the use of food or sound for the purpose of photographing them is not allowed. Maintained situations such as provided supplemental food due to hardship caused by weather conditions or other conditions beyond the animals’ control, where photography is incidental to the feeding of the animal does not fall under this provision.
• Controlling live subjects by chilling, anaesthetic, or any other method of restricting natural movement for a photograph is not allowed.
• Human-made elements shall be permitted under the following circumstances:

1. a) When they are an integral part of the nature story, such as a songbird singing atop a fence post a manmade object used as nest material, or a weather phenomenon destroying a man-made structure.
2. b) When they are a small but unavoidable part of the scene, such as an unobtrusive footprint or track in the background.
3. c) Scientific tags, collars, and bands are specifically allowed.

When photographing at a zoo, sanctuary, or rehabilitation centre, it would be construed that the photographer ensured that it’s properly accredited and conforms to best practices. 2

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:

• Cropping, straightening and perspective correction
• Removal or correction of elements added by the camera or lens, such as dust spots, noise, chromatic aberration and lens distortion
• Global and selective adjustments such as brightness, hue, saturation and contrast to restore the appearance of the original scene
• Complete conversion of colour images to grayscale monochrome
• Blending of multiple images of the same subject and combining them in camera or with software (exposure blending or focus stacking)
• Image stitching – combining multiple images with overlapping fields of view that are taken consecutively (panoramas).

Editing techniques that are not allowed:

• Removing, adding to, moving or changing any part of an image, except for cropping and straightening.
• Adding a vignette during processing
• Blurring parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene
• Darkening parts of the image during processing to hide elements in the original scene
• All conversions other than to complete grayscale monochrome
• Conversion of parts of an image to monochrome, or partial toning, desaturation or over-saturation of colour

FIAP Monochrome Definition
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.

Greyscale Monochrome images may be entered for Nature, Photojournalism and Photo Travel but toned images are not permitted for these sections.

PEOPLE  Definition
Show people in all situations, such as daily life, street photography, traditions, portrait, people at work, social events, human relations and etc. The main subject in the photo must be one or more humans.

FIAP Rules
By the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the participant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the participant 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 be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the participant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations

The mention that 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 be 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 the breaches of the rules.

It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations. If, at any time, it is determined in the reasonable discretion of the exhibition organizer 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 organizers reserve the right to delete the entry from the exhibition and void any or all acceptances or awards in connection with the exhibition. Fees may be forfeited or refunded in these circumstances. The entrant acknowledges that the decision of the exhibition organizers or the judges is final.

Pictures created by artificial intelligence are not allowed in the FIAP Biennials! All the parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. Offenders will be sanctioned for life!

DATA PROTECTION
By entering this exhibition, you are explicitly consenting to the personal details you have supplied, including email addresses, being held, processed and used by the exhibition organizers for purposes associated with this exhibition. You also explicitly consent to such information being sent to organizations which have accorded official recognition, patronage or accreditation to this exhibition. You acknowledge and accept that entering this exhibition means that the status and results of your entry may be made public. Your email address and contact information will not be made public.  The organizer can use the exhibited works for reproduction in the catalogue and for promotion.

“I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 040/2023 « Conditions and regulations for FIAP Patronage » and FIAP document 038/2023 « 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 application will not proceed.

PATRONAT
FIAP Patronat: 2025/161-162-163
NCC Patronat: 2025/005
PCP Patronat: 2025/036
GRE Patronat: 2025/007
MG Patronat: 2025/006

CONTACT  
New Camera Club, Switzerland
Jacques Bourgeois, Salon Chairman
Web: https://newcameraclub.com
Email: info@newcameraclub.com