The Bristol International Salon of Photography has been a leading international exhibition of photography since 1946. It is an exhibition of digital images open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world and encompasses all styles of photography from the traditional to the avante garde. The Salon is conducted under the approved rules of the [...]
Having successfully gained my fifth British Photographic Exhibitions Crown Award (BPE5*) in October, 2011 I am now pursuing their Associates distinction (ABPE), which requires a further 100 acceptances, plus 20 awards. An awards could be anything from a Commended image up to and including a PAGB Gold Medal. Having gained 10 acceptances and a Honour [...]
The London Salon of Photography 100th Annual Exhibition, 2011. The London Salon was founded in 1910, but before that it existed as the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, a photographic society that was established in 1892. The original Linked Ring members were a breakaway organization from the (Royal) Photographic Society, who at that time placed [...]
Since the beginning of 2008, having rekindled my passion for competitive photography, my ambition was to reach the standard required to gain an EFIAP distinction. For those of you who are reading this an EFIAP is the second distinction awarded by the International Federation for Photographic Art for “Excellence”, their first distinction being an A [...]
The 3rd GBISPC is an International Photographic Exhibition for un-mounted prints up to a maximum size of A4. The competition comprises of four exhibitions, known as a circuit, these being; Arddangosfa International (Wales), Carlisle International (Scotland), Hoylake and West Cumbria Internationals (Great Britain). Muddy Hell Photographers, both amateur and professional, from all around the world [...]
Finally! After waiting almost six months my FIAP GOLD Medal was delivered safe and sound today. The medal was awarded for Best Monochrome Image ; Under the Wire, in the 2nd Fotogrupo 30/40 International Salon of Virtual Imagining, 2010 held in Argentina Gaining any kind of International award is truly an honour, but FIAP Gold [...]
This was my 4th entry into the Smethwick International. I did my first way back in 1990, having gained just 2 acceptances, Impressions of Autumn and All Lined Up. I look back on those images now with horror, but even 2 acceptance back then was an achievement. Ask any exhibiting photographer in the UK what’s [...]
At the beginning of March, 2009 FIAP decided to change the minima required for their AFIAP distinction. No longer do you have to exhibit in FIAP patronage exhibitions over 5 years and collect points from your acceptances, in theory you can now do it in just 12 short months! The new minima for an AFIAP [...]
