A member of the Photographic Society of America shall act in accordance with all PSA policies. A member shall be honest in performing and reporting services to the Society. A member shall be ethical in making and presenting photographic images. Members not in compliance with this ethics statement will be subject to loss of PSA membership and/or awards and honors.

1. a. Images submitted for competitions shall originate as photographs by the entrant on photographic emulsion or acquired digitally. By virtue of submitting an entry, the photographer certifies the work as his/her own.
     b. Any image accepted in a PSA-Recognized exhibition shall not be re-entered in the same format in the same section of the exhibition by using a different title or a like in-camera duplication or a reproduction duplication. An accepted image may not be re-titled for entry in the same section of the same division of any other PSA-recognized exhibition.
     c. Images submitted in internal (PSA members only) competitions, contests, workshops, study-groups and the like shall strictly follow th ese standards, both written and as obviously intended, without reservation.

2. Information included in honors and awards proposals shall be exact and true.

3. Material submitted for possible publication in the PSA Journal and/or the PSA Website shall be solely the work of the author(s). Quotations from other material or gathered orally shall be carefully cited with credit given for all illustrationsused, and permission to use copyrighted material must be obtained by the author