The Photographic Society New Zealand invites all its members to submit their entries for the 18th 4 Nations Competition which is (this year) hosted by The Photographic Society of South Africa.

Calendar

PSNZ Entries Open: 25 April 2026
PSNZ Entries Close: 13 May 2026

Four Nations Final Results available: 20 August 2026

Entry Requirements
Each countries entry consists of 80 images, from 80 different photographers. No image previously entered in the 4 Nations Competition may be entered again.

The breakdown of the 80 images is:

• Colour Open – 35 images
• Mono Open – 15 images
• Nature – Mono or Colour – 15 images
• Our Country – Mono or Colour – 15 images

Only digital projected images may be entered. Images must be resized to a maximum of 1920 pixels on the horizontal axis and 1080 pixels on the vertical axis. One of the axes must be the full 1920 or 1080 in order for the image to be uploaded to Photovaultonline. Images must be saved as JPG files with a
maximum size of 2Mb.

Images filenames should just be the Title of the Image. No further information is required as the system will add the necessary country and section.

Neither the photographers name nor the country will be revealed to the judges.

Judging

The scores used to determine all results for this competition shall be the combined scores of all three judges.

The judges will converse with each other to decide the recipient images for the 4 Nations Gold Awards and the 4 Nations Honourable Mention Certificates.

Awards – all awards are e-certificates

• 4 Nations Award -To the Society that wins the competition, cumulative of the four categories. The host Society shall determine the winner of this award by totalling the scores supplied by the judges for each image.
• 4 Nations Gold Award - These are for individual Society members who have the highest scoring image in each category (One Gold Award for each category). The judges shall determine which image in each category shall be the recipient of the award for that category either by mediation or as indicated by the highest scoring image for that category.
• 4 Nations Honourable Mention Certificates - For individual Society members who received Honourable Mentions (Up to three certificates for the categories of Monochrome, Nature and Our Country and up to five certificates for the Open Category). The judges shall determine which images in each category shall be the recipients of a certificate either by mediation or as indicated by the next highest score.

Competition Rules / Terms and Conditions can be viewed when you log into the member area.

Meet the Judges

Joanne Stolte, a respected international photographer and judge, has served on the Photographic Society of America (PSA) Board of Directors for many years and has filled many different roles. Her service and dedication to photography has been acknowledged internationally as is shown by all the
honours after her name.

Joanne is the Founder and President of the Photographic Alliance of America (PAA), the national photography organization for the USA, which is an Operational Member of FIAP.

Gary Potts has over 6000 international image acceptances in digital projected imagery and in prints. Gary is a past Executive Vice President of the PSA and currently serves on the Nominations Committee and is a Portfolio Assessor. Gary is a member of the Photographic Alliance of America (PAA), the national photography organization for the USA.

Gary’s achievements have been recognized internationally as the honours after his name show.

Larry Cowles is a retired Electrical Engineer with a passion for Photography. He has been active in exhibitions having achieved over 15,000 acceptances and winning hundreds of awards from 100 countries and was the first person to obtain GMPSA/P, PSA’s highest level.

He is a frequent judge, teaches photography and is a mentor. His photographic specialty is portraits.