Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique

'''Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, or FIAP (Eng. The International Federation of Photographic Art'''), is an international organization of national associations of photography. As of 2021 91 national associations are members, comprising over one million individual photographers.

FIAP was founded by M. Van de Wijer of Belgium in 1946, who remained its president until 1976. French is the first official language of FIAP, with official texts translated in English and German.

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. Provided by Wikipedia