Happy 2026 The 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Photo: Matej Artač
1 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Contest selector: Stojan Gorup, KMF FZS, EFIAP/d1 – Slovenia Statistics: 187 cards from 40 countries arrived 3, plus 3, plus 3 awards were granted All 187 cards were accepted and all of them can be found in this “5☺ PDF catalogue”. 2
3 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Dear friends, fellow photographers First of all, I wish you a healthy, happy, prosperous, and peaceful year 2026 and a lot of good light! This year’s contest for the Best New Year Greeting Card was already the fifteenth edition. Over the years, the contest has become a tradition that connects photographers from different parts of the world, especially those who meet at events of the FIAP family – at FIAP Congresses, FIAP Photo Meetings, and international photographic salons. From the very beginning, the contest was conceived as a way of bringing together friends of photography who are also actively involved in the work of FIAP and the national member organizations of this worldwide federation of photographers. In recent years, the interest in the contest has exceeded the original expectations. News about it has spread among photographers who are not necessarily regular participants in FIAP meetings, and some even admit that they were attracted by a special feature of the contest – prizes in the form of chocolate. These have become a atractive reward, even though everyone could easily buy one in the nearest shop. Since the fifth edition, the contest has also been held under the auspices of FIAP. In this way, the leadership of our international federation confirms the importance of international connections among photographers, while the contest continues to preserve its original idea – a relaxed, friendly and creative gathering of photographers during the festive season, sharing New Year greetings with one another. I would like to express my special thanks to the juror, Mr. Stojan Gorup, who had the demanding task of selecting, from a wide variety of greeting card photographs, those that this time deserve their large or small chocolate prize. All submitted photographs are presented in this catalogue. One could say they represent many different genres. Some belong to the classical “New Year motifs”, while others show winter landscapes, friendly animals, urban city scenes, expressions of emotions, and many other unusual and imaginative subjects. Finally, I would like to thank you, all participants, the FIAP Directory Board members, to Matej Artač forthe excelent IT support, and last but not least Anton Savov from Bulgaria, who prepared the catalogue in the form of a flip book. Vasja Doberlet, MFIAP, EFIAP/d2, HonEFIAP FIAP LO Slovenia
4 AWARDS 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest PARTICIPANTS Yüksel Açıkgöz – Türkiye Elisabeth Aemmer –Switzerland Peter Aemmer –Switzerland Hasan Akcay –Türkiye Yasemin Aksit - Belgium Hassan Salem Al Busaidi –Oman Yousuf Ibrahim AL Maaini –Oman Khalid Alameeri –Bahrein Hanan Hassan AL-Khalifa–Bahrein Ola AlObaidy–Iraq Neriman Alpagut –Türkiye Najla Angawi - Saudi Arabia Veysi Arcagok–Türkiye HülyaArici –Türkiye Vladimir Arsovski –North Macedonia Matej Artač –Slovenia Rita Baio–Italy Gürkan Bal –Türkiye FIAP Special medal and big milk chocolate with hazelnuts Sergey Majorov–Russia Layos Nagy–Romania Biswatosh Sengupta– India Sweet diploma – finest dark chocolate with orange peel Yüksel Açıkgöz –Turkey Alena Ivochkina–Russia Ioannis Lykouris –Greece Little sweet diploma– extra fine bitter chocolate Reha Bilir –Turkey Marcel van Balken–Netherlands Simon Kovačič –Slovenia Şebnem Bal –Türkiye Savaş Bal –Türkiye ArzuBal –Türkiye Müzeyyen Bal –Türkiye Kurt Batschinski –Austria Nail Battalov–Russia Mehmet Baysan–Türkiye Alexandra Bychkova–Russia Yasemin Bilgi –Türkiye
5 RehaBilir –Turkey Ivo Bobev–Bulgaria Mircea Octavian Boran–Romania Ivo Borko –Slovenia Emil Božnar –Slovenia Branislav Brkić –Serbia Andrea Cantanna–Italy Željko Car –Croatia Josep M Casanoves Dolcet –Spain Mürşide Çilengir –Turkey Matjaž Čater –Slovenia Aleksander Čufar –Slovenia Irene Datsenko–Russia Gràcia De La Hoz –Spain Yucel Demir –Turkey AyşeSerap Deniz –Turkey Chris Discart –Belgium Vladimir Dyadkov–Russia Anatolii Dzhygyr –Ukraine Kathrin Eggenschwiler –Switzerland Murat Eldarov–Russia Eman Eldeeb–Egypt Nassim Eloud–Cyprus Hadine Elsaadi - United Arab Emirates Saida Evtykh–Russia Marina Fadeyeva–Russia Gabriella Fileppo–Italy Luis Alberto Franke –Argentina Cristina Garzone–Italy Cvetan Gavrovski-NorthMacedonia Andriani Georgiadou - Cyprus Herbert Gmeiner –Austria KimHuiGoh–Singapore FatmaGökmen–Turkey Mehmet Gokyigit –Cyprus Anastasiia Golubeva–Russia Ruslan Hajizada–Azerbaijan Sezgin Hatipagaoglu–Turkey Oleksandr Huchok–Ukraine Barış Işıkpuna –Turkey Samir Issa–Oman Alena Ivochkina–Russia Andreja Janša –Slovenia LazsloJuhász–Hungary Murat Kapan –Turkey Mehmet Karaca–Turkey Devrim Karaca–Turkey Nicos Karanikis –Cyprus Alexander Kharvat –Ukraine Vladimir Khromenkov–Russia Birol Kıraç –Turkey Arkady Kirnos –Russia Marija Kisilicja–Ukraine Elena Kononova–Russia Oleg Konstantinov –Russia Filiz Koprulu–Turkey Valeriy Korenchuk–Kazakhstan Olga Korenchuk–Kazakhstan Vicroria Kostochkina–Russia Simon Kovačič –Slovenia Liudmila Kovaleva–Russia Simon Krejan - Slovenia Iryna Kulikova–Ukraine Abdurrahman Kurt –Turkey Seyhmus Kuyumcu–Turkey Poung Young Kwak–South Korea CandyKwon–South Korea Dorota Kycia–Poland Jef Lemmens –Belgium Zorian Lishchynsky–Ukraine Elena Logunova–Russia Victor Lutay–Russia Ioannis Lykouris–Greece Sergey Majorov–Russia Oleg Malovitskyi –Ukraine David Manakyan–Russia Irina Markova –Kazakhstan Joan Burgues Martisella–Andorra Sergey Maslov–Russia Vitaly Maslov–Russia Dani Mauko–Slovenia Miha Mekuč –Slovenia Ludvik Mekuč –Slovenia Elena Melezhik–Russia Milan Mihalič –Slovenia Mikhail Milyan–Ukraine Dušan Gorast Miška –Slovenia Maria Mitkova–Bulgaria Maria Mitrohina–Russia Tatyana Mitrohina–Russia 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
6 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Seham Mohammed – AE Irina Moshkovskaia–Russia Naief Mubarek–Saudi Arabia Conrad Mularoni –San Marino Rashid Un Nabi –Bangladesh Lajos Nagy – Romania Dmitry Nedzelnytsky–Ukraine Andrey Nedzelnytskyi –Ukraine Tatiana Nemova–Russia Romain Nero –Luxembourg Danica Novak –Slovenia Sandi Novak –Slovenia Yuliya Onuchina–Russia Sevgi Ozak–Turkey Çağrı Özkara –Turkey Janez Papež –Slovenia Marina Pavlin –Slovenia Elen Plotnikova–Russia Vitalii Popkov –Ukraine Dragan Prole –Bosnia Vladimir Romanov –Russia Salavat Safiullin–Russia Dmitry Saltykov–Russia HüseyinSari - Turkey Ömer Sarıtaş –Turkey KeikoSato–Japan Anton Savov –Bulgaria Lyubka Savova –Bulgaria Cihan Savran–Turkey Jean-Paul Schmit –Luxembourg Ozgur Secmen–Turkey Biswatosh Sengupta–India Tatyana Sergienko–Russia Juliya Shestopalova–Russia Liudmyla Shevchenko–Ukraine Carla Sogos –Italy Ilija Stanušić–Croatia Pavel Strotov –Russia Ivan Strotov–Russia Marina Strotova–Russia JasimSuljanovič –Slovenia RoaldSynnevåg–Norway Victoria Sysoyeva–Russia Sawsan Taher –Bahrein Serhii Tarabara–Ukraine Muzaffer Temel –Turkey Selcuk Terlemez –Turkey Basil Titov –Belarus Elena Tobia–Italy Giuseppe Tomelleri –Italy Tamara Tsiliakus –Russia Evgeniy Turkov –Russia Nuriye Ulusoy –Turkey TuğbaUrhan–Turkey Mariam Useros Barrero–Spain Marcel Van Balken–Netherlands Milan Veliky–Slovakia Stane Vidmar –Slovenia Luis José Vigil-Escalera Quintanal –Spain Dimitry Voynov–Russia Wolfgang Wiesen –Germany Hakan Yaman–Turkey Peter Yanchevsky–Belarus Elizaveta Yasyuchenya–Russia Kseniya Yasyuchenya–Russia Derya Yazar Atasever –Turkey ŞadiyeYilmaz Bilir –Turkey Levent Yucetin–Turkey Sergey Yudin–Russia Oleg Zhylin–Ukraine
7 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Sergey Majorov –Russia FIAP special medal and big chocolate with hazelnuts
15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest 8 FIAP special medal and big chocolate with hazelnuts LajosNagy–Romania
15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest 9 FIAP special medal and big chocolate with hazelnuts Prof. Biswatosh Sengupta–India
15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest 10 Yüksel Açıkgöz –Turkey Sweet diploma – Finest dark chocolate with orange peel
11 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Alena Ivochkina–Russia Sweet diploma – Finest dark chocolate with orange peel
12 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Ioannis Lykouris –Greece Sweet diploma – Finest dark chocolate with orange peel
13 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest RehaBilir –Turkey Little sweet diploma– Extra fine bitter chocolate
14 Little sweet diploma– Extra fine bitter chocolate 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Marcel van Balken–Netherlands
15 Little sweet diploma– Extra fine bitter chocolate 14th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Simon Kovačič –Slovenia
16 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Rita Baio–Italy Simon Krejan –Slovenia Matej Artač –Slovenia Filiz Koprulu–Turkey
17 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Josep M Casanoves Dolcet –Spain Wolfgang Wiesen –Germany Marija Kisilitsa–Ukraine Aemmer Peter –Switzerland
18 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Saida Evtykh–Russia Aleksander Čufar –Slovenia JasimSuljanović –Slovenia Juliya Shestopalova–Russia
19 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Eman Eldeeb –Egypt Mikhail Milyan–Ukraine Aleksandra Bychkova –Russia Herbert Gmeiner –Austria
20 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Dani Mauko–Slovenia Mehmet Baysan–Turkey Liudmyla Shevchenko–Ukraine Iryna Kulikova–Ukraine
21 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Tatyana Mitrohina –Russia Tamara Tsiliakus –Russia Victoria Kostochkina-Russia
22 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Andrea Cantanna–Italy Sergey Maslov –Russia Andrey Nedzelnytskyi –Ukraine
23 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Andreja Janša –Slovenia Sandi Novak –Slovenia Ludvik Mekuč –Slovenia Irina Moshkovskaia –Russia
24 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Stane Vidmar –Slovenia Vitaly Maslov –Russia Maria Mitrohina –Russia
25 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Oleg Konstantinov –Russia Milan Mihalič –Slovenia Emil Božnar –Slovenia Elen Plotnikova–Russia
26 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Savaş Bal –Turkey Mariam Useros Barrero–Spain Hakan Yaman - Turkey KeikoSato–Japan
27 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest ArzuBal –Turkey Anton Savov –Bulgaria Мurat Eldarov –Russia Dmitry Saltykov –Russia
28 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Şadiye Yılmaz Bilir –Turkey Nuriye Ulusoy –Turkey Liudmila Kovaleva-Russia Müzeyyen Bal –Turkey
29 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Mircea Octavian Boran–Romania Dragan Prole –Bosnia and Herzegovina Viktor lutai –Russia
30 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Janez Papež –Slovenia Mürşide Çilengir –Turkey Tatyana Nemova–Russia Yuliya Onuchina–Russia
31 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Chris Discart –Belgium Poung Young Kwak –South Korea Maria Mitkova–Bulgaria
32 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Derya Yazar Atasever –Turkey
33 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Barış Işıkpunar –Turkey Branislav Brkić –Serbia Zorian Lishchynsky –Ukraine
34 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Matjaž Čater-Slovenia Vitalii Popkov –Ukraine HülyaArici –Turkey
35 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Alexander Kharvat –Ukraine David Manakyan–Russia Mehmet Gokyigit –Cyprus Marina Pavlin –Slovenia
36 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Kurt Batschinski –Austria CandyKwon–South Korea Dmitry Nedzelnytsky–Ukraine Anatolii Dzhygyr –Ukraine
37 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Romain Nero –Luxembourg Nassim Eloud–Cyprus Jean-Paul Schmit –Luxembourg Murat Kapan –Turkey
38 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Hasan Akcay–Turkey Lyubka Savova –Bulgaria Luis José Vigil-Escalera Quintanal –Spain Ilija Stanušić –Croatia
39 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Željko Car –Croatia Hüseyin Sarı –Turkey Dorota Kycia–Poland RoaldSynnevåg–Norway
40 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Milan Veliký–Slovakia Sevgi Ozak–Turkey Birol Kıraç –Turkey Samir Issa–Oman
41 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Devrim Karaca–Turkey ŞebnemBal –Turkey GürkanBal –Turkey Viktoria Sysoeva–Russia
42 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Khalid Alameeri –Bahrain Oleksandr Huchok –Ukraine Seham Mohammed –United Arab Emirates Najla Angawi –Saudi Arabia
43 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Andriani Georgiadou–Cyprus Jef Lemmens –Belgium Selcuk Terlemez –Turkey Arkady Kirnos –Russia
44 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Peter Yanchevsky–Belarus Marina Fadeyeva–Russia Ruslan Hajizada–Azerbaijan Vladimir Romanov –Russia
45 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Yasemin Bilgi –Turkey KimHui Goh–Singapore Abdurrahman Kurt –Turkey Irene Datsenko –Russia
46 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Elena Logunova –Russia Giuseppe Tomelleri –Italy Dušan Gorast Miška –Slovenia Elisabeth Aemmer –Switzerland
47 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Basil Titov –Belarus Elena Melezhik –Russia Serhii Tarabara–Ukraine Tatiana Sergienko –Russia
48 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Naief Mubarek –Saudi Arabia Conrad Mularoni –San Marino Yasemin Aksit –Belgium Ivo Bobev –Bulgaria
49 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Mehmet Karaca–Turkey FatmaGökmen-Turkey Irina Markova –Kazakhstan Cihan Savran–Turkey
50 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Vladimir Arsovski –North Macedonia Elena Kononova–Russia Sergey Yudin –Russia Valery Korenchuk –Kazakhstan
51 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Cristina Garzone–Italy AyşeSerap Deniz –Turkey Yousuf AL-Maaini –Oman Anastasiia Golubeva –Russia
52 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Muzaffer Temel –Turkey Levent Yucetin–Turkey TuğbaUrhan–Turkey Sawsan Taher –Bahrain
53 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Çağrı Özkara –Turkey Evgeniy Turkov –Russia Elena Tobia–Italy Hanan Hassan AL-Khalifa–Bahrain
54 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Olga Korenchuk –Kazakhstan Veysi Arcagok–Turkey Nail Battalov–Russia Seyhmus Kuyumcu–Turkey
55 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Vladimir Khromenkov –Russia Ozgur Secmen–Turkey Oleg Malovitskyi-Ukraine Luis Alberto Franke –Argentina
56 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Oleg Zhylin–Czechia Ivan Strotov –Russia Sezgin Hatipagaoglu–Turkey Pavel Strotov –Russia
57 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Gabriella Fileppo–Italy Miha Mekuč –Slovenia Ömer Sarıtaş –Turkey Joan Burgues Martisella –Andorra
58 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Dmitry Voynov –Russia Ivo Borko –Slovenia Neriman Alpagut –Turkey Carla Sogos –Italy
59 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest LazsloJuhász –Hungary Gràcia De La Hoz –Spain Danica Novak –Slovenia Cvetan Gavrovski-North Macedonia
60 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Elizaveta Yasyuchenya–Russia Ola Al-Obaidy - Iraq Hadine Elsaadi –United Arab Emirates Eggenschwiler Kathrin–Switzerland
61 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Vladimir Dyadkov-Russia Nicos Karanikis –Cyprus Hassan AL-Busaidi –Oman Kseniya Yasyuchenya –Russia
62 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest Dr Rashid UN Nabi –Bangladesh Yucel Demir –Turkey Salavat Safiullin–Russia Marina Strotova –Russia
63 Greetings from the judge Stojan Gorup, KMF FSZ, EFIAP/d1 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
Greetings from IT manager Matej Artač 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest 64
65 Greetings from the organizer 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
Greetings from Mr Tomaž Lanišek, MF FZS, EFIAP/g, the President of the Photographic Association of Slovenia, Wishing the Creative Year 2026 to all photographers. 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest 66
67 Greetings from the members of FIAPDirectory Board 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
68 The project was supported by: FIAP Auspices: 26/003 15th FIAP New Year Greetings Card Contest
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