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About
Aleksey Puchkovsкiy
Russia
M IAAP
Certified judges IAAP.
Member of the International Association of Art Photography (IAAP).
Head of International Club Art Portrait (ICAP).
Member of the Photo Association of Serbia (FSS).
More than 25 years of work in film and video production as a director and screenwriter.
Laureate and prize-winner of Russian and international film festivals.

https://vk.com/puchkovskiy
https://www.youtube.com/@puchkovskiy
https://puchkovskiy.com/
Alexis Saveriades
Cyprus
Alexis Saveriades is a passionate amateur photographer with 30+ years photographic experience.
By profession Alexis is a Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology.
He has to-date participated in more than 400 photographic salons under the auspices of FIAP, GPU, IAAP and other photographic associations, with 300+ awards and 2300 acceptances.
He is a Board member of the Cyprus Photographic Society and in-charge of the Cyprus International Digital Photographic Competition, held annually. He is also actively engaged as a judge in Internationally renowned photo contests.
Alexis holds the titles of EFIAP/d1, GPU CR-2, GPU-VIP-2, GPU-ZEUS, C IAAP.
Furthermore, he is an IAAP Ambassador and the GPU National Representative for Cyprus.

https://theiaap.com/profile/27596/

Dejan Kocev
North Macedonia
Kocev Dejan (born 1985) is a photographer from Štip, North Macedonia.
Although his interest in photography developed early, he began photography actively at the age of 35. His photographic style focuses on travel, sports, concerts, and landscape photography, with an emphasis on strong composition and visual storytelling. Active in international exhibitions under IAAP patronage since 2024, he has won numerous international awards, including a Silver Medal at the Macedonian Photo Cup 2024 and Silver and Bronze Medals in 2025.
He holds the Supreme IAAP title.
https://www.instagram.com/bikimaiden85
Maja Stošić
Serbia
MF FSS
was born on July 14th 1975. In 2004. becomes a member of photo club "Paracin" and Photo Association of Serbia. Since 2020. has a title MF FSS in Photographic Associaton of Sebia and international title EFIAP in FIAP since 2015. Till today she took part at more than 220 international group exhibitions and won over 70 prizes for photography. She had two solo exhibitions – "Like a tempera" year 2008. and "Saved from Oblivion" was in several towns of Serbia since 2013-2015.

https://www.instagram.com/majaexarandjelovicstosic/

Marin Margeta
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marin Margeta - born in 1982 in Mostar, where I live and work.

Holder of the honorary title Artist (A IAAP) - International Association of Art Photographers

Official photographer of the EU House project for the Herzegovina region.

Official photographer associate of the EU Delegation, as well as on EU Council projects.

One of the founders and vice president of the Photo Club Mostar(BiH).

Member of photo club Color from Rijeka (Cro).

Member of the Association for Artistic Photography BiH and the BH Photographers Association,

where I have the status of distinguished member.


https://theiaap.com/profile/31033/
https://www.instagram.com/loffy_thriller/
Mehmet Uluyurt
Albania
Mehmet ULUYURT, born in 1985 in Konya, graduated from the Department of Mining Engineering at Selçuk University’s Faculty of Engineering. He currently works as a manager at a mining company abroad.
In 2008, ULUYURT was selected for the Turkish branch of the "Young Filmmaking Project" organized by the U.S. Department of State and the State University of New York at Fredonia. During this project, he received training in cinema and short filmmaking in both Turkey and the United States.
During his education, ULUYURT served as the president of the Selçuk University Photography Club and led the club to win some of the best Art Club awards in Turkey through numerous events he organized. He also led a team of volunteers in organizing the "Selçuk Photography and Cinema Days" in Konya, an event that had never been held before, and managed to run this event for three consecutive years.
With numerous awards in national and international competitions, ULUYURT continues his photography and short film work under the roof of Sille Art Palace, of which he is one of the founders.

EIAAP / AFIAP / GPU CR2 / SSSF 


https://theiaap.com/profile/5992/

Michal Nega
Czech Republic
M IAAP, AFIAP, EPSA, GPU: HERMES, CR-4, VIP-5, M.APS, c MoL, IIG/s3/p, A.NPS, Hon.CPE, SWPU/1
Certified Judge IAAP
Since 2021 he has been actively participating in international photography competitions. He is the winner of competitions such as Chromatic Awards, WPE Awards, STF Awards, 1X, The Portrait Masters Awards, NIPA, ANALOG SPARKS and others. He has already participated in more than 600 photography competitions in different countries of the world. As a result, he has already won more than 700 international photography awards. His work has already been presented at photo exhibitions several times. He was included in the 2024 edition of Who's Who in Photography and was ranked in the Top 25, a mark of photographic excellence and one of the PSA's most prestigious awards. 

He considers himself a photography enthusiast. Photography for him is somewhere between a hobby and a passion. He mainly photographs glamor, fashion, portraits, sometimes landscape, reportage, street and sport photo. He loves beauty, emotions and movement, as he tries to capture it in his photographs. 


https://theiaap.com/profile/35307/
https://www.instagram.com/michalnega_analog/
Nguyen Vu Phuoc
Vietnam
EFIAP
Graduated from University of Fine Arts in 1991.
From 2013 till now, he has achieved 300 awards from international competitions that held by organizations, the Photography Federations in many country such as: US, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Finland, Germany, Greece, Egypt, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Taiwan, Serbia, Montenegro, …. His photographs were exhibited in many countries.
In addition to taking photographs for advertising and trading, the artwork of Artist Nguyen Vu Phuoc simply capture moments in daily life like sadness, happiness, the pain of all people from kids to the elderly as a part of his diary. He wishes to contribute to enriching Vietnam cultural activities.

http://www.nguyenvuphuoc.com

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