SECTIONS

• OPEN COLOR ( Only Color )
• OPEN MONOCHROME ( Only Monochrome )
• NATURE ( Color and Monochrome )
• PEOPLE ( Color and Monochrome )

An image may be entered in only one section.

CALENDAR
Closing date: Feb 23, 2026
Judging: Mar 09, 2026
Results: Mar 23, 2026
Gallery Posted By: Apr 26, 2026
Awards and Catalog: Apr 26, 2026

ENTRY FEE
Entry fee for all 4 sections: 35 EUR.
Possible ways of payment is PayPal.
The author should log in to his registered account and choose the preferred payment method.
Discount for Group entries from 10 authors is 20%.
Please contact us per Email: info@photoartmonte.com

DIGITAL ENTRIES
Authors must complete the entry form and submit their photos online.
The images, jpg files, can be uploaded directly per Internet on our Homepage: https://photoartmonte.com/entry-form/

IMAGE SIZE
Dimensions: Maximum width 1920 pixels, maximum height 1080 pixels.
File size: Must not exceed 2 MB per image.

IMAGE FILE NAMING
Each image must have a unique title with maximum 35 characters.
File name should be as you would want it to appear in the catalogue (same as title name).
Please use only letters (A–Z, a–z) and numbers (0–9), and do not use accents or other characters.
Titles may not consist solely of numbers or camera capture filenames.

JUDGING METHOD
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 “FIAP best author”.
–  Judges would use Full HD Display 1080P (1920×1080).
–  The acceptance rate can be up to 30%.
–  The judging will be held that each jury vote for each image from 1 to 10 points.
–  The score of accepted images is counted by sum of all jury member points together.
–  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.

JURY MEMBERS
Montenegro:
Srdja Velimirovic, AFIAP; Montenegro;
Dragica Krekovic, AFIAP, Switzerland;
Angelina Alic, ENCC, Germany;

Greenland:
Predrag Novakovic, APAM, Serbia;
Radojko Zivadinovic, EFIAP/b, PPSA, MNCC, Switzerland;
Cedomir Ivanovic, EPAM, Montenegro;

Madagascar:
Borislav Milovanovic, EFIAP/d3, ESFIAP, MPSA, Serbia;
Milenko Velimirovic, APAM, Montenegro;
Slavica Bourgeois, ENCC, Switzerland;

AWARDS
Montenegro
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge;
FIAP Gold Medals;
MAPA diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
MAPA Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PAM diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PAM Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)

Greenland
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge;
FIAP Gold Medals;
MAPA diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
MAPA Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PAM diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PAM Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)

Madagascar
FIAP Best Author: FIAP Blue Badge;
FIAP Gold Medals;
MAPA diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
MAPA Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PCP diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PCP Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
PAM diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
PAM Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)
SALON diplomas 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (digital pdf)
SALON Honourable Mentions (digital pdf)

The jury reserves the right to grant additional awards.
Each author may receive only one award per section.
The jury’s decision is final and binding; no complaints will be considered.

REPORT CARD
Each participant will receive the Report card per email.

EMAILS SPAM BLOCKING
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.

CATALOG AND AWARDS SHIPPING
The Best of Show HQ Catalog showing mostly of acceptances and all Awarded images will be sent via email. E-Diplomas, E-Honorable Mentions and e-certificates are in PDF format, which will be sent via email. Medals will be sent via post.

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.

EXHIBITION REQUIREMENTS
FIAP Nature Definition 
Content GuidelinesNature 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:
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.
b) When they are a small but unavoidable part of the scene, such as an unobtrusive footprint or track in the background.
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.

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
– 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 this salon! 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!

Permitted AI-enhanced editing (Note 1 below) and prohibited (Note 2 below).

1. Permitted AI-enhanced editing: includes editing tools that perform transformations, enhancements, or corrections based exclusively on the existing pixel data captured in the author’s original photograph without introducing externally sourced
content.

2. Prohibited AI editing: includes any AI-assisted processes for synthetic image generation that incorporate external image data, visual elements, textures, objects, or scenes not originally present in the author’s photograph are prohibited.

FIAP NOTICE: When an entrant fills in the Entry Form to submit an entry the entrant will see a feature to affirm he or she has read these Conditions of Entry when he or she fills out the entry form. If the entrant does not so affirm the entry will not be submitted.

 “I hereby expressly agree to FIAP document 048/2025 « 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 048/2025, dealing under Section II.2 and II.3 with the FIAP participation rules, the sanctions for breaching FIAP regulations and the red list.”

PATRONAT
FIAP Patronat: 2026/066-068
MAPA Patronat: 2026
PCP Patronat: 2026/7
PAM Patronat: 2026/6
SAL Patronat: 2026

CONTACT
MONTE Circuit 2026
Photo Art Monte
Jovan Djurasevic, Salon Chairman
Web: https://photoartmonte.com
Email: info@photoartmonte.com