Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
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Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique', or FIAP (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art), is an international organization of national associations of photography. More than 85 national associations are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers.
FIAP was founded by M. Van de Wijer of Belgium in 1946. The first members were the photographic associations from Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. In 1947, Denmark, Finland and Hungary joined. The first FIAP congress took place in Bern, Switzerland in 1950, at which time additional national association members included Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. FIAP Biennials are currently held every 2 years, in different countries, during odd numbered years for black and white and nature photography, and even numbered years for color photography.
- FIAP DIRECTORY BOARD:
- PRESIDENT - RICCARDO BUSI (ITALY)
- GENERAL SECRETARY - IOANNIS LYKOURIS (GREECE)
- VICE PRESIDENT - JOAN BURGUES MARTISELLA (ANDORRA)
- VICE PRESIDENT - JACKY MARTIN (FRANCE)
- TREASURER - HERBERT GMEINER (AUSTRIA)
- MEMBER - KURT BATSCHINSKI (AUSTRIA)
- MEMBER - DAVID TAY POEY (SINGAPORE)
- MEMBER - FREDDY VAN GILBERGEN (BELGIUM)
- MEMBER - ROMAIN NERO (LUXEMBOURG)
The FIAP gives a rare honorary of Master of Photography (M.F.I.A.P).
- 2011
- Les Copains d'abord - Christian DEVERS (BELGIUM)
- Abandoned Irish Cottages - Gabriel O SHAUGHNESSY (IRELAND)
- Impression d'enfants vietnamiens - Hong Linh LE (VIETNAM)
- The Towns living on the Water - Giuseppe TOMELLERI (ITALY)
- Wild Brown Bear - Ilkka Tapani NISKANEN (FINLAND)
- Faces of Artists - Elek PAPP (HUNGARY)
- paperbag [reBORN] - Andreas ENDER (AUSTRIA)
- Metallic Creatures - Ewald STEENBLOCK (GERMANY)
- 2010
- Kind - Mutter - Vater - Horst HUBER (AUSTRIA) - Daily Life in La Habana de Cuba - John SEEGERS (THE NETHERLANDS) - Woman portrait - Vladimir PROSHIN (RUSSIA) - Mercados vietnamitas - Jaume BADIA i BAFULLUY (SPAIN) - Spectacular Indian Birds - M.N JAYAKUMAR (INDIA) - Cheetahs - Barun Kumar SINHA (INDIA) - People of Maramures area of Romania - Desmond CLINTON (IRELAND) - Gathering light - John HOOTON (IRELAND) - Roadside America - Colin Peter HARRISON (ENGLAND) - Growing Old - David TAY Poey Cher (SINGAPORE) - Ombres intimes - Willy LEMAIRE (BELGIUM) - Canaval de Venise - Carlo DIANA (BELGIUM) - Nival - Serge DISSOUBRAY (FRANCE) - US Classic Cars - Jacky MARTIN (FRANCE) - Une vieille ville - Dieter WALTER (GERMANY) - Automne en Aragon - Guy SAMOYAULT (FRANCE)
- 2009
- Special operations – Lancashire police - Gwen CHARNOCK (ENGLAND)
- The people of Marrakech (Morocco) - Phil CHARNOCK (ENGLAND)
- Form and colour - Anil Risal SINGH (INDIA)
- Women hood : psychological changes of women - Anup PAUL (INDIA)
- Village Life Ghana - Margaret SALISBURY (ENGLAND)
- Läden - Udo KRÄMER (GERMANY)
- A world apart - Carlo DELLI (ITALY)
- Toss and Turn of environment - Quoc Tuan HOANG (VIETNAM)
- AbstraAKT - Manfred BLUM (AUSTRIA)
- 2008
- Clones Factory - Nicolás BERLINGIERI ( ARGENTINA)
- La vie dans une communauté religieuse - Jozef AERTS (BELGIUM)
- Fleurs en noir et blanc - Jean-Claude MENNERON ( FRANCE)
- Underground - Bernd MAI (GERMANY)
- Un monde sous la ville - Volker FRENZEL (GERMANY)
- Inside Georgia - Rod WHEELANS ( SCOTLAND)
- Mouvements de l’eau - Secundi ROCA ROCA (ESPAGNE)
- Herbarium meum - André TORRES (FRANCE)
- Instants de vie - Pierre PEDELMAS (FRANCE)
- Flame fractals and flowers - Jean-Paul SCHMIT (LUXEMBOURG)
- 2007
- Birds in action - David CANTRILLE (ENGLAND)
- Return to mature - Jan-Thomas STAKE (SWEDEN)
- Winged beauties – Indian birds - H.V. PRAVEEN KUMAR (INDIA)
- Village men of Rajasthan - David WHEELER (ENGLAND)
- Rock’n roll live - Francis NICOLL (BELGIUM)
- Cadence of life - Madhu SARKAR ( INDIA)
- Les fleurs de mon jardin - Roland VERBEKE (BELGIUM)
- Kolmanskop - John CHAMBERLIN (ENGLAND)
- Turbans - Erik LAURAEUS ( FINLAND)
- 2006
- La vie dans la maison de repos - Willy SPEGELAERE (BELGIUM)
- Monks - John SIMPSON (SCOTLAND)
- Mo(nu)ments of Rest - Huib LIMBERG (THE NETHERLANDS)
- Oiseaux des îles - Jean-Claude BACLE (FRANCE)
- 2005
- The world of Maramures - Virgilio BARDOSSI (ITALY)
- L'Imprimerie Nationale de France - Jean-Daniel LEMOINE (FRANCE)
- Inside the ground shell - Virgilio GIURICIN (CROATIA)
- Muff-fair - Sean CASEY (IRELAND)
- 2004
- Lithuanian landscapes - Stanislova ZVIRGZDAS (LITHUANIA)
- Fungi - Gary SPEER (NEW ZEALAND)
- Rencontre avec Tami - Franck BOOTS (THE NETHERLANDS)
- Triptics - Juan-Fransisco PALMER (SPAIN)
- AV - Ricardo ZARATE (FRANCE)
- Racial harmony - Junid OSNAM (SINGAPORE)
- 2003
- The Quarries of Rhosydd and Cwmorthin - Jon Paul BAKER (GREAT BRITAIN)
- Cuba in my heart - Hilary ROBERTS (GREAT BRITAIN)
- Naval maintenance - Amleto Francisco BOCCI (ARGENTINA)
- 2002
- Man and Environment - Giulio VEGGI (ITALY)
- Cuba, Fin del Milenio - Juan Miguel ALBA MOLINA (SPAIN)
- Des Corps Décors #2 - Eric TOURLET (FRANCE)
- Tango - Jacques VANNEUVILLE (FRANCE)
- Venissima - André BELLAMY (FRANCE)
- Introspection dans une Usine de Ciment - Germán Sergio TELLO SOLER (SPAIN)
- 2001
- Naissance - Dominique TUILARD (FRANCE)
- L’élément humain - Antoine ROLAND (BELGIUM)
- Roots - Vinko SKALE (SLOVENIA)
- Vendanges - Jacky HUTTING (LUXEMBOURG)
- Chili terre des extremes - Willy SUYS (LUXEMBOURG)
- The Grizzly falls - Riccardo BUSI (ITALY)
- 2000
- Jazz Gallery - Jean-Claude ROUX (FRANCE)
- Evanescence - Gérard JOUFFRAY (FRANCE)
- Cote d'Ivoire - Rene THIRION (BELGIQUE)
- Faces of mysticism - Syed Javaid A KAZI (PAKISTAN)
- 1999
- David BUTLER (GREAT BRITAIN)
- Hanumantharao SATISH (INDIA)
- 1998
- Ulrich FISCHER (SWEDEN)
- John R. LAW (GREAT BRITAIN)
- Chateaux-Venise - Pierre RUIZ (FRANCE)
- Barrie R. THOMAS (GREAT BRITAIN)
- Derek SLATTERY (SWISS)
- AV - Michel NEUWELS (BELGIQUE)
- 1997
- Rudolf HASIBEDER (AUSTRIA) - Mont St Michel Bay - Jan JANSEN (THE NETHERLANDS) - Joachim W. DETTMER (GERMANY) - M.-A. MATTSSON (SWEDEN) - AV - J.-P. SIMON (FRANCE)
The third man in the world to have received this honor was Benu Sen.
Biennials
- 27th Congress: Budapest, Hungary, 2004
- 28th Congress: Chengdu, China, 2006
- 29th Congress: Žilina, Slovakia, 2008
- 30th Congress: Hanoï, Vietnam, 2010
References
- Photo FIAP 1966: The Best of FIAP 1966, Lucerne, Switzerland: C. J. Bucher Ltd., 1965 (selections from the 8th Biennial of 1964)
- history at FIAP website
