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2019 PSA International Exhibition of Photography

Pictorial Prints, Small Color—Hungry Chameleon © Malcolm Jenkins, GMPSA/S, BPSA

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The 2019 Photographic Society of America’s International Exhibition of Photography offered photographers from around the world the opportunity to compete in 21 different sections in the six divisions. The Projected Image Division (PID), Nature (ND) Division, Photo Travel (PTD) Division, and Photojournalism (PJD) Division each offered 2 Digital Sections. The Pictorial Prints (PPD) Division offered four and the 3D Division offered 6. To facilitate entry, mailing, and judging the Print Sections for ND, PTD, and PJD were aggregated into a new Exhibition offering 1 section each.

We would like to thank each of the exhibitors who shared over 9000 photographic digital images and prints in this year’s exhibition. As in the past, your participation this year is most appreciated. This is what makes the PSA International such a significant annual photographic event. This year we did experience a decrease in overall participation; most significantly from China, India, and the USA. Judging started less than a week after the closing date with various panels of judges selecting the very best images. The Digital images were compiled and shown during the conference in Spokane, Washington. Prints were on display for most days the conference was in session.

The PSA Exhibition website at https://psa-photo.org/psa-international/ shows all of the award-winning and many of the accepted images from all of the sections. These will remain on the website at least until the closing of the International Exhibition in 2019.

Ever since its launch, the exhibition website page remains one of the most visited photographic sites. All this has been made possible by the efforts of our Exhibition Webmaster, Dan Charbonnet III, HonPSA, EPSA. Even now, in my fourth year as General Chair, I would be remiss if I did not offer Dan my personal thanks for his continued hard work, for his patience, and for his willingness to share his knowledge and experience with me.

The PSA International Exhibition remains one of the world’s premier exhibitions and is open to all photographers worldwide. PSA members and non-members get an opportunity to exhibit, compete and win PSA medals and Division awards.

With so many sections, the PSA Exhibition is too large and too diversified to be judged in a single local area or by a single club, as most exhibitions are. Consequently, willing and dedicated PSA members and photographers from across the nation (and again, England.)

volunteer to run a part of the exhibition. The chairs of this year’s volunteer staffs were:

Nature Digital, Dr. Greg Duncan, GMPSA, GPSA, EFIAP/G, of England;

Photo Travel Digital, Henry Ng, FPSA, EPSA, of Silver Spring, MD;

Photojournalism Digital, Ron Meyers of Broken Arrow, OK;

Projected Image, Howard Zatulove, PPSA, of Sun City, Arizona;

Pictorial Prints, Jaci Finch, APSA, and Doug Finch, APSA, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;

Theme Division Prints ND-PTD-PJD, Jan Lee, FPSA, EPSA, and Wally Lee, FPSA, PPSA, of Edmond, OK;

Photojournalism, Prints—Body Art Expo 2604 © James D. Smith, MPSA

By Howard Zatulove, PPSA


Photo Travel, Architecture and Landscape—Harbin Opera House © Yaping Zhang

Projected Image, Color—Covered With Snow © Livinus Bleyen, MPSA


3D Prints-Digital, Geoff Peters, PPSA, of Fairfax, VA;

A big “THANK YOU” is extended to each and every one of you for a job exceptionally well done. We appreciate your support and enthusiasm and want you to know that this exhibition would not be possible without your help, time, and effort.

These volunteers spend about four months on planning, receiving and validating the entries, and arranging for and conducting the judging. Once the judging is over, they compile the report cards, prepare results for the website, send out the awards, prepare displays for prints or digital shows, create the catalog and, finally, submit the official acceptance reports (EDAS). Then it’s time to start the preparations for next year. If you or any exhibitor would like to say “thank you” to any of the section chairs, please do so by using the PSA exhibition website at https://psa-photo.org/psa-international/ and click on the link, “ask the chairman a question.” Use the form to express your gratitude. This will be most appreciated by all our volunteers.

The exhibition chairs compile the exhibition results but the judges have the final say. They bring years of experience and their photographic prowess to evaluate your images and pick the very best. Our judging panels this year were:

Nature Digital: Mary Cantrille, FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB; Tim Downton, ARPS, DPAGB; Valerie Duncan, GMPSA/B, EFIAP/G, ARPS; Iain Friend, CPAGB; all from England.

Photo Travel Digital: Judy Burr, APSA, EPSA, MD; Lynn Troy Maniscalco, HonPSA, EPSA, DE; Michael Tran, APSA, PPSA, MD.

Photojournalism Digital: Marea Arns Breedlove, Tom Whipple, Eric Spooner; all from OK.

Projected Image: Ella Schreiber, APSA, QPSA; James D. Smith, MPSA; Lynn Thompson, FPSA, MPSA; all from AZ. Pictorial Prints, Small Monochrome—The Iguana © Malcolm Jenkins, GMPSA/S, BPSA

3D, Open—Sunbeams at Burgess Falls © Mark Brennan


Pictorial Prints: Dennis Corbin, MPSA, OK; Dennis Fritsche, TX; Tom Savage, APSA, MPSA2, TX.

Theme Prints Nature: Dennis Corbin, MPSA; Joe Wilson; Dave Woodson; all from OK.

Theme Prints Photo Travel and Photojournalism: Gosia Bodurka, OK; Randy Carr, APSA, MPSA2, OK; Elena McTighe, HonPSA, MPSA, FL

3D Prints-Digital: Mike Canter, MD; Harry Chow, MD; Robert Leonard, HonPSA, MPSA, MD; James Roy, FPSA, PPSA, VA

Thanks, again, to both Twila Bourlon, our Headquarters Office Manager for all of her

hard work keeping the flow of money going to the correct accounts and to PSA Journal Editor, Donna Brennan for her preparation of the annual Exhibition article. Special thanks to Jan Lee and Wally Lee of OK for accepting responsibility for Theme Prints, including the separate Catalog. I also would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all exhibitors for your help, your suggestions, and your support. PSA looks forward to your continued participation in the 2020 International Exhibition and beyond. The PSA International is truly one of the finest exhibitions of photography and your continued support and participation will keep it there amongst the very best in the world. n

3D, Plants— Plant Walkway © Andrea Shetley, FPSA

3D, Landscape/Seascape—Arch 7 & Stars © Cecil Stone, PPSA


Photojournalism, Human Interest—Brave Young Girl © Yaping Zhang

Photo Travel, Prints—Ganges Boats © J.R. Schnelzer, APSA, EPSA, AFIAP


3D, Open—Mongolian Rider 03 © Greg Duncan, GMPSA, GPSA, EFIAP/G

Photo Travel, People in Their Environment—Joy Walk on Sharp Edge © Subrata Bysack, GMPSA/G

3D, Mammals—Basking in the Sun © Signe Emmerich, HonPSA, EPSA

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