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Image of the Year

Exhibition Image of the Year (IOY) Competition

Entrants must be PSA members in good standing who are the winners of the Best of Show or PSA Gold medals in  Division Sections of PSA-Recognized Exhibitions whose closing dates occurred in the previous calendar year.

 

General Entry Details for all Exhibition Image of the Year Competitions

 

All eligible entrants will receive an email invitation from the Image of the Year Director. This invitation will list the titles of the photos the member has that are eligible. Additionally, there will be instructions regarding how and where to enter online.

Images are not to be submitted prior to receiving the invitation entry form from the Director. Please check your Spam if you have received a best of show or gold medal last year but did not get an invitation from the PID Division. Prints, Stereo, Photo Travel, Photojournalism and Nature Divisions will send invitations to any member who has won any PSA Medal- Gold, Silver, Bronze or Best of Show. Entries are always judged one year behind. 2024 Exhibition Image of the Year will be judged in 2025

Entries for each calendar year of Exhibitions are due one of two closing dates of the following year and will be judged prior to the PSA Annual Festival. The due date schedule varies by division and is as follows:

• Pictorial Image Division (PID): Saturday, June 28, 2025
• Nature Division (ND): Saturday, June 28, 2025
• Photo Travel Division (PTD): Saturday, June 28, 2025
• Photojournalism Division (PJD): Saturday, June 28, 2025
• Pictorial Print Division (PPD): Friday, June 28, 2025
• 3D Division (3DD): Friday, May 17, 2025

All Division Exhibition IOY competitions have been standardized. IOY Awards are selected for each Division Star Track. For each star track there will be one Gold Medal Award and one Silver Medal Award, for every hundred entries or portion thereof. A Gold Medal Award plaque is presented to the image judged to be the division Image(s) of the Year. The Gold Medal Award plaque awarded includes a medal, reproduction of the winning image and an engraved plate with the member’s name, the title of their winning image, the award name, and year of the award. Silver Medal Award plaques include a medal and the engraved plate.

Winning images may be shown at the PSA Annual Photo Festival, may be displayed on the PSA website, and are presented in the PSA Journal. Awards are mailed to those who cannot attend the Photo Festival. All Medal winners will have to sign a permission slip allowing reproduction of their image on the PSA Website and in the PSA Journal.

May be found on the competition results listing.

 

Division Specific Exhibition Image of the Year Information

 

IOY Awards are selected for each Division Star Track. In PID there are two star tracks of Color and Monochrome. For each star track there will be one Gold Medal Award and one Silver Medal Award, for every hundred entries or portion thereof.

Tirtha Dasgupta
✉ PID Image of the Year Director 

Due to a standardization of the Image of the Year Awards given by all Divisions Nature images and Wildlife images may be judged together in one group.

Awards will now consist of one 8x10 Gold Medal Plaque with a medal, engraved plate and a reproduction of the winning image for Image of the Year. There will also be additional 4x6 Silver medal plaques given: one per every hundred entries or portion thereof. All medal winners will be displayed on the PSA Nature Division web site, and all medal winning images will be featured in an article in the PSA Journal. All Medal winners will have to sign a permission slip allowing reproduction on the PSA Nature Website and in the PSA Journal.

Susan Mosser
✉ ND Image of the Year Director 

All Division IOY competitions have been standardized. IOY Awards are selected for each Division Star Track. For each star track there will be one Gold Medal Award and one Silver Medal Award, for every hundred entries or portion thereof

Gary Walter
✉ PJD Image of the Year Director 

An award plaque is presented to the image judged to be the PTD Image of the Year. Awards will now consist of one 8x10 Gold Medal Plaque with a medal, engraved plate and a reproduction of the winning image for Image of the Year. There will also be additional 4x6 Silver medal plaques given: one per every hundred entries or portion thereof.


Susan Mosser
PTD Director for Exhibition Year 2023, Judged in 2024
✉ PTD Image of the Year Director 

New for 2024: Prints will be judged as prints however the entrants have the option of Mailing in their eligible prints from the list provided or having PPD Division print them for you prior to the judging.

There will be a Print Origin dropdown menu on the online entry form for you to select the option you wish to use. You still need to upload all your eligible entries in digital format on the entry form, so the image of the print is available for PPD to make a print should your print entry by mail not arrive in time. If you are mailing your prints in and they do not arrive by the deadline, they will be printed for you so you do not miss out on the competition.

The winning prints will be shown in the Print Gallery at the PSA Festival and submitted to the PSA Print Collections Committee. All entrants will receive an invitation from the PPD Image of the Year Directors with the names of the eligible titles/prints. The invitation will have a link to a PSA online site (much like any exhibition site) where they will upload their eligible print titles/entries in digital form. You will need to agree to 2/two PSA statements –click yes and you need to select an option in the Print Origin dropdown menu or your digital files will not be accepted.


All Medal winners will have to sign a permission slip allowing reproduction of their image on the PSA Website and in the PSA Journal. All portraits also need a model release to be published if they win. All medal winning entries/prints, after the judging will be sent for display at the PSA festival. No prints will be returned to the maker.


Susan Mosser



✉ PPD Image of the Year Directors   

Due to a standardization of the Image of the Year Awards given by all Divisions, Stereo-3D will award one Gold Medal overall and one Silver Medal for the top other category - either prints or Digital. Depending on the number of image/prints entered an additional Silver Medal may be awarded. The winning images may be shown at the PSA Annual Photo Festival, will be displayed on the PSA 3D Division website and will be published in the PSA Journal.

Dennis Green
✉ 3D Image of the Year Director 

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