{"id":358,"date":"2014-01-27T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2014-01-27T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:00:57","slug":"afiap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/distinctions\/afiap\/ ","title":{"rendered":"AFIAP: Artiste Federation Internationale de l\u2019Art Photographique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been awarded my RPS Licentiateship for a panel consisting entirely of images of people and my RPS Associateship for a panel deliberately consisting entirely of images with no people in them, I decided to return to my favourite subject and started taking images of people again.<\/p>\n<p>My aim was to take candid shots which tell a story and I\u00a0 wanted to create images with an \u2018artistic\u2019 feel to them which could be considered as \u2018Visual Art\u2019 images.<\/p>\n<p>I also decided to enter International Salons and Exhibitions as a way to improve my photography as I felt that the discipline of entering these on a regular basis would help to prevent it drifting and falling down my priority list.<\/p>\n<p>I like to have something to aim at so I also decided to work towards an international distinction, the AFIAP.<\/p>\n<p>The AFIAP (Artiste Federation Internationale de l\u2019Art Photographique (The International Federation of Photographic Art)) required*:<\/p>\n<p>at least 30 (40) acceptances from<\/p>\n<p>10 (15) different works in<\/p>\n<p>10 (15) different salons<\/p>\n<p>in 5 (8) different countries.<\/p>\n<p>*figures in brackets are the current requirements<\/p>\n<p>It all sounded very daunting when I started but it wasn\u2019t as difficult as I feared.<\/p>\n<p>I got my first acceptance on 17<sup>th<\/sup> Oct. 2009 and I was awarded the distinction on 30<sup>th<\/sup> May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The images in my successful submission are shown below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-360\" alt=\"AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-(Page-01)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-01.jpg\" width=\"3268\" height=\"2036\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-01.jpg 3268w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-01-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-01-1024x637.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3268px) 100vw, 3268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361\" alt=\"AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-(Page-02)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-02.jpg\" width=\"3269\" height=\"1911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-02.jpg 3269w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-02-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidfcookephotography.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AFIAP-Images-for-Talks_Layout-1-Page-02-1024x598.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3269px) 100vw, 3269px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been awarded my RPS Licentiateship for a panel consisting entirely of images of people and my RPS Associateship for a panel deliberately consisting entirely of images with no people in them, I decided to return to my favourite subject and started taking images of people again. 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