DHAKA AWARDS 2025

CONTACTS:

Organized by: Agile Photographic Society (APS) Chairman

Mr. Sohel Parvez Haque, EPSA

Email: chairman@agilefoto.com

Location of Entry form: https://agilefoto.com

Website address: https://agilefoto.com

SECTIONS:

1	Open Color (color only) PIDC
2	Woman Color (color only) PIDC
3	People Color (color only) PIDC
4	Open Monochrome (monochrome only) PIDM
5	Portrait & Body Monochrome (monochrome only) PIDM
6	Street (monochrome only) PIDM

 

 

ENTRY FEES:

The entry fee for entries is to be paid by following the instructions on the website when filling out the entry form. Payment should be in accordance with the entry fees stated there. Cheques are not accepted. Entries for which no or insufficient payment has been received will not be judged.

Insufficient payment will be refunded after 2 days of closing date in same PayPal id.

Entrance fee per person for the salon:

FEEs	Any 3 Sections	All 6 Sections
Entry Fee	USD 16 or equivalent BDT 1922	USD 20 or equivalent BDT 2400

We accept payment in any currency, though during payment, PayPal would convert your currency to the above stated USD fees at its daily exchange rate.

Possible ways of payment:

• PayPal transfer to samir_zoha@hotmail.com (Preferred method)

• MoneyBookers-Skrill transfer to sohelparvez1410@gmail.com

• International Credit cards are also Pls send a mail to the chairman for procedure.

• Bkash Payment to 01817183344 (Only Bangladeshi Residents)

NON-PAYMENT OF FEES

Entries for which no fee is received will not be judged.

CALENDAR:

   

Closing date	05 Feb 2025
All judging completed by	04 Mar 2025
Score reports sent by	11 Mar 2025
Awards Mailed by	03 May 2025
On-line gallery posted by	25 Mar 2025
On-line catalogs posted by	03 May 2025
Status page and website must remain publicly assessable	04 Mar 2026

 

 

JUDGES:

Each jury panel will judge all sections.

Sections	Last Name	First Name	Country	Distinctions
ALL	Gurelli	Gur	Turkey	EFIAP/b, EPSA, A.APS
ALL	Tiong	Joe	Malaysia	GMPSA, AFIAP, GPU VIP 2
ALL	Kamal	Syed	Bangladesh	PPSA

 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

 

COLOR	MONO	WOMAN	PORTRAIT & BODY	PEOPLE	STREET
1 x PSA GOLD	1 x PSA GOLD	1 x PSA GOLD	1 x PSA GOLD	1 x PSA GOLD	1 x PSA GOLD
1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD
1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD
1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD	1 x APS GOLD
12 x APS eHM (PDF)	12 x APS eHM (PDF)	12 x APS eHM (PDF)	12 x APS eHM (PDF)	12 x APS eHM (PDF)	12 x APS eHM (PDF)

 

APS Digital HONORABLE MENTION (HM) is a PDF certificate, and it must be downloaded from Result card email within 6 Months.  The Honorable Mention Electronic Certificates will not be posted.

CATALOG:

Online PDF Catalog (Downloadable from Website).

The Chair will send an email to all entrants to notify them that Catalog is ready to download from Website (agilefoto.com).

ACCEPTING DIGITAL ENTRIES

IMAGE SIZE:

Entries accepted via the entry form on the exhibition’s webpage

Images should not be more than 1920 pixels horizontal by no more than 1080 pixels vertical side, DPI is 300 and Maximum 1.95 MB, JPEG, RGB. Please note, portrait images must be no more than 1080 pixels vertically. Smaller images are acceptable but will be projected smaller on the screen. The projection background is black, DO NOT fill empty space with/or add large borders.

Exhibitions are not allowed to resize oversized images. In such cases the entrant is required to resubmit their entry with properly sized images.

ACCEPTANCES AND AWARDS

JUDGING METHOD

• It will be remote

• Judges will be using color-calibrated monitors using a combination of software and Judges’ monitors will be at least 1920 resolution and will be capable of displaying images at 100% of the image resolution and those images will be displayed at exactly 100% of their resolution.

• Acceptance Target Range will not exceed 30%.

• 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, ą, ę, ś, 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, 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 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 catalog. You also agree and accept the policy regarding non- compliance to the rules of PSA.

   

Image Creation and Authorship

In all sections of an exhibition, images must originate as photographs made by the entrant. Entrants may not incorporate images or image elements authored by anyone else (for example textures, replacement skies, clipart or stock images), and there is zero tolerance for plagiarism. Editing or alteration of images is only permitted within the limits specified in the division definitions.

 

 

Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Images created by image creation software (frequently called “AI” images) are not allowed in any exhibition. Any person submitting an AI generated image (in whole or in part) that does not begin with a photograph from the maker shall be prohibited from PSA activities for a minimum of three (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 PID-C (colour only)

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 PID-M (Monochrome only)

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 must have specific definitions which must be approved by the ERD. These definitions assist both the judges and entrants.

 

SECTION DEFINITIONS:

WOMAN Definition PID-C (Color only)

The main subject should be a single woman or a group of women, it could be a creative, street or indoor shot, studio or nude.

PORTRAIT & BODY Definition PID-M (Monochrome only)

Portrait: Center of interest is the human portrait and body in all its forms and manifestations. Portrait and fine art nude photography.

Portraits of people of all colors, races, religions, the whole range of human feelings. Live photography, outdoor photography as well as studio portraits. Men, women, children. The human face as a reflection on emotion and life experience.

Fine-art photography, taken outdoors or under studio conditions, full of idea, creativity, with a touch of erotic mood, which depicts the nude human body with an emphasis on form, composition, emotional content, and other aesthetic qualities.

STREET Definition PID-M (Monochrome only)

Street photography is photography conducted for art that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.

PEOPLE Definition PID-C (Color only)

People Images show us people in all situations; such as man, woman, child/children, single or group persons, daily life, street photography, traditions, portraits, people at work, social events, human relations etc.

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.

STATUTORY DISCLAIMER:

NOTICE: When entrants fill in the Entry Form to submit an entry, they will see the following feature to affirm they have read these Conditions of Entry

“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 at 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.