Admission Free Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.

The Independent Image

(IPSE summer exhibition 2007)
Curated by Mick Williamson
Head of Photography, London Metropolitan
University

28 July - 18 August
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm

Admission free
The Independent Photographers Gallery,3 Old Brewery Yard,Battle,East Sussex
TN33 0AF

Tel: 01424 77650

The exhibition by Independent Photography in the South East of England (IPSE) which is a group of highly regarded, independent artists who this year celebrate their sixteenth anniversary.The group's work covers a wide range of contemporary photographic practice from traditional black and white prints to digital techniques. Notting Hill kids in the 60s, surrealism, colourful macro flower photography, environmental concerns and humour in corporate portraiture are some of the subjects represented in this show.

Exhibiting photographers are Ian Angus, Peter Baldwin, Martin Bowman, Nigel Collins, Robin Coutts, Dilys Goggins, Josephine Evans, Sue Fallon, Alan Gristwood, David Gurr, John Holloway, Jeff Hutchinson, Virginia Khuri, David Malarkey, Alan Mynett, Chris Morris, Lesley Parkinson, John Perrin, Mike Shanahan, Jill Staples, Paul Styles and Michael Vogt (shortlisted as a best newcomer at this year's Royal Academy summer exhibition).

"The success of groups like IPSE demonstrates how productive the outcomes can be when collaboration rather than competition is the preferred pathway. By making us view the world and photography through their eyes, these image makers enrich our lives - and their own." - Paul Hill MBE, FRPS, Professor of Photography, De Montfort University, Leicester.

IPSE arranges talks, residential weekends, evening meetings, a newsletter and periodic exhibitions - all within an atmosphere of encouragement and non-competitiveness. Speakers have included Paul Hill, John Blakemore, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Mark Haworth-Booth, Eamonn McCabe, Grace Robertson, Mari Mahr, Joy Gregory, Ori Gersht, Steve Pyke, Nicholas Sinclair and Hamish Fulton. Jem Southam and Anna Fox will be leading workshops in the Autumn. Past workshops have ranged over classic silver-gelatin photography, pinhole photography, alternative processes, hand-made books and the uses of digital photography.

For more information about IPSE, see their website (www.ipse.org.uk), contact Jill Staples (jill@ipse.org.uk) or visit the exhibition.

A catalogue of the exhibition, with an introduction by Paul Hill, is available through the gallery website (www.ipgbattle.com) at £3.00
plus p&p.

Image attached Remembrance Day 10:59 Jeff Hutchinson.