1ST KPA
INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT  2022

PSA 2022-220
Gallery & Catalog Published!

Mobirise

PSA 2022-220

Circuit Calendar

Closing

Submit your entries on or before
28th March 2022

Judging Start

Our panel of jury will start judging from 10th April 2022

Judging End

Judging will end on
15th April 2022

Result and Notification

Result and notification will be send on
20th April 2022

Exhibition

Exhibition will be from
10th May 2022

Catalogue & Award 

Cataloging and award distribution will be on 30th June2022

Sections

Only colour, no monochrome images are allowed

As per monochrome sectional definition

As per Nature sectional definition

As per Photo Travel sectional definition

As per Photo Journalism sectional definition

Panel of Judges

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JUDGING 1
All Sections

Mr. Amitabha Sil (EPSA) INDIA

Mr. Partha Sarathi Sarkar (EFIAP) INDIA

Mr. Debabrata Sarkar (EFIAP) INDIA 

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JUDGING 2 
All Sections

Mr. Koshal Basu (EPSA) INDIA

Dr. Ashok K. Ghosh (EFIAP) INDIA

Mr. Basudeb Chakraborty (EFIAP) INDIA 

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JUDGING 3
All Sections

Mr. Piyali Mitra (GMPSA) INDIA

Mr. Swapan Mukherjee (EFIAP)INDIA

Mr. Prabir Kr. Roy (EFIAP) INDIA 

CIRCUIT CHAIRMAN
Mr. Sayantan Chakraborty
CHANDANA DIGITIAL STUDIO
Vidyasagar Pur, P.O. – Inda
Kharagpur. DIST. West Midnapur.
PIN. - 721305
West Bengal, INDIA 

Email: kpaclub@yahoo.com
Phone: +91 8972859731

Entry Fees
One Section

20 $(USD) /Rs. 1400/-


PayPal address is:
milanphoto007@yahoo.com

Additional Sections

10 $(USD)/Rs. 700/-


BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS
Account Holder's Name: MILAN KUMAR HAZRA
Account Number: 920010013161150
Bank Name: AXIS BANK
Branch: CONTAI
IFSC Code: UTIB0000498

105 Total Awards

$19

Each Sections

  • PSA GOLD
  • KPA GOLD
  • KPA SILVER
  • KPA BRONZE
  • 3 KPA MERIT MEDAL

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

IMAGE AND ENTRY 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.

Max. Image Size: 2MB
Max. Vertical Size: 1080px
Max Horizontal Size: 1920px
Resolution: 300dpi

Sanctions
Entries will not be accepted from any entrant who is currently sanctioned by PSA.

PSA Star Ratings

To receive proper Star ratings credit from PSA, entrants must provide their names and country exactly the same in each exhibition. Aliases are not permitted. Please contact PSA in the event of name changes or relocating to another country.

Image Creation
Entries must originate as photographs (image-captures of objects via light sensitivity) made by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally.

Certification
By virtue of submitting an image, the entrant certifies the work as his or her own (.Images may not incorporate elements produced by anyone else (for example: clip art, images or art by others downloaded from the Internet). Aliases are not allowed. 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. Note: Entrants who indicate that their images may not be reproduced or used “will not be eligible for awards” or inclusion in audio-visuals of the exhibition “and could be subject to disqualification” by the exhibition sponsors. The exhibition assumes no liability of any misuse of copyright

Alteration and Computer Generation
Subject to Divisional restrictions (particularly Nature, Photo Travel, and Photojournalism) images may be altered, either electronically or otherwise, by the maker. Adjustments to enhance images or creatively modify images are allowed providing the underlying photograph is retained in a way that is obvious to the viewer. Images may not be constructed entirely with a computer, and must be the sole work of the author. All parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted.

Re-use of accepted images 
Once an image has been accepted in a PSA Recognized exhibition, any identical image, or near identical image, may not, in future, be entered or re-entered in any section of the same Division Star Ratings class in that exhibition regardless of media, format, or title; may not be re-titled for entry into any other PSA Recognized exhibition, including translation into another language.

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.

Titles
Each image must have a unique title. That unique title must be used for entry of that image or of an Identical 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 maker. Titles must not include file extensions such as .jpg or .jpeg (or any other camera capture filenames), or words such as "untitled" or "no title". Titles may not consist solely of numbers.

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.
However, PSA members working on Galaxy and Diamond Star Ratings are allowed to continue using different titles of monochrome versions and color versions of the same capture that have already been accepted until the required number of acceptances for those titles has been completed.

ORGANISATION

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.

An image may be entered in only one section where acceptances of that image in multiple sections would be eligible for the same star path.
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 that 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.
Breaches of Rules

In order to ensure that images comply with the Conditions of Entry and definitions, the exhibition organizers may carry out reasonable measures to verify that:

a) the images are the original work of the entrant and
b) the images comply with the rules and definitions as set out in these Conditions of Entry

These steps include, but are not limited to, questioning any entrant, requiring the submission of RAW files or other digital files representing the original capture of the submitted image(s), confronting the entrant with evidence that one or more submitted images fails to comply with the Conditions of Entry (also known as Entry Rules), and offering the entrant a reasonable opportunity to provide counter evidence to refute the exhibition organizer’s evidence by a set deadline. Such entries that are not cleared or are still questionable after the entrant has presented evidence may be considered in breach of these Conditions of Entry, and declined. Such entries may be referred to PSA for further investigation of possible ethics violations .

PSA retains the right to investigate in any way all complaints/suspicions of breaches of entry conditions, impose sanctions if deemed necessary, void the acceptances of any image found to violate the PSA rules, include the entrant’s name on the list of sanctions provided to Exhibitions, and share such investigations with FIAP. Entrants automatically agree to these terms by the act of entering the Exhibition and agree to cooperate with any investigation.

If another party is submitting images on the entrant’s behalf, the entrant will still be held responsible for adhering to these Conditions of Entry (Entry Rules) and will be subject to sanction for any violations to these Conditions of Entry and PSA’s Statement of Ethics that may result.
PSA Statement on Subject Matter

There is one hard and fast rule, whose spirit must be observed at all times and applies to all sections offered in PSA recognised exhibitions.  


The welfare of the subject is more important than the 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 PSA exhibitions.

There is also a PSA policy on the use of aerial photography - aircraft, helicopters and drones. This policy can be found at https://psa-photo.org/index.php?psa-policies#drone.

The purpose of this policy is to prevent any interference with other individuals or animals which will or may cause a disturbance in their normal activity or disrupt the way any individuals or animals interact with their environment. Entry in this exhibition requires exhibitors to agree to this and other PSA policies
The content of images must comply with these General Conditions and with the Division and Section definitions listed in these conditions. Images that - in the sole opinion of the judges or the Exhibition Organizers - do not comply are likely to be disqualified so the entrant may be aware of the problem when considering entry into other PSA recognized exhibitions.

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