PSA acknowledges the importance of the worldwide community, with the growing number of the worldwide memberships who resides in more than 80 countries. PSA is a worldwide organization involved in educating and connecting people through photography.
In September 2025, PSA is proud to hold the 85th Annual PSA Photo Festival in Tucson, Arizona, USA. This conference/photo festival has been held continuously in different North American cities. In 2018 at the Board Meeting led by Elena Mc Tighe, the PSA President at that time, PSA international Relationships VP Agatha Bunanta, suggested and initiated to have the PSA Photo Gathering outside North America.
After thorough research and consideration from the core team, it was decided at the Fall 2021 PSA Board Meeting to hold the first ever PSA Photo Gathering 2023 outside of North America, in Jaisalmer, the Golden city of India.
The event was a rousing success, with 113 PSA members from 13 countries gathered for 8 days, 31st January 2023 – 7th February 2023.
The 2nd PSA Photo Gathering was held in Indonesia in Java Island, the Land of Wonder in 4 different location : Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Probolinggo and Mount Bromo. The 8 days event, from 22nd of July – 29th of July was a huge success with total 222 photographers from 22 countries. After that 100 photographers were flew to Bali Island to join the PSA PG 6 days extended tour.
As the name of the event suggests, the main focus of the PSA-PG is the interaction with people. PSA-PG brings together many people of different backgrounds to learn about the culture of the host country of PSA-PG.