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LIP Annual Exhibition 1998

Hardly news, but LIP had another successful annual show, this year at a new venue in Mayfair, the , International House Danan Gallery. There were favourable comments and a picture in both the British Journal of Photography (including the fine picture by Roberto Arendse on the cover of this issue) and Amateur Photographer as well as mentions in print elsewhere.

As always the work was varied in subject and approach, but overall the quality seemed very high, and the show certainly made a favourable impression on a number of people I talked to.

Unfortunately the review commissioned for this magazine has not materialised - together with another piece promised. So there is more work in this issue by the editor than I would have liked!

Jim Barron on show

One of the stars of the LIP annual show with a superb portrait of a man holding a dog, Jim was offered his own show at the gallery on the basis of this work. Several of his prints were on show in the Foyer of the Photographers' Gallery in May, and he was the runner-up in the one of the major photo competitions (Samaratians -I think for the second year running) with a picture of a saxophone player and his dog entertaining on a Soho pavement.

Responses to the Visual World

From 7-21 June work by Virginia Khuri, Jill Staples, Rosemary Cockayne, Willima Bishop and Gunnel Rosengard was on show at the Gallery, Town Hall, Bampton, Oxfordshire.

The Invisible Man/Lies, damn lies and photographs

Proof of the editor's incorporeality was provided recently by one of the local free rags. The sheet which is heavily dependent on advertising from Heathrow carried a report of a meeting of our local town society with a front page picture of the near empty hall and headline about lack of interest and apathy at a meeting about various developments, including Heathrow's proposed T5.

The seat I occupied throughout this meeting was empty. In fairness I should report that there were also perhaps almost 50 other people missing from the section of audience shown at what was in fact a fairly well-attended and at times lively meeting. Taking your photo sufficiently long before the start can make a hall look empty!

Contributions to LipService

If you've had a show or been in one or have one coming up and there is nothing about it in LipService then it probably means you haven't told the editor! Please send a picture with your press release, statement or comments etc. Prints (b/w or colour) should be between postcard and A4 size; 35mm slides are fine. If you want pictures returned it helps a lot to enclose either a sae or a stamped label.

If you'd like to share your thoughts on anything photographic - perhaps review a book or show or photographic event of any kind - send them to LipService. Don't worry if you think you can't write, everybody can - though some do need more editorial help than others when it comes to punctuation! It helps if text is typed (or computer printout), and if you can, send the file on a floppy as well - it save time. PC or Mac format.

Share your pictures with LIP members - preferably with a little text explaining what you are doing. LipService is your magazine. If you don't send, it won't get printed.

Send work to: Peter Marshall, 31 Budebury Rd, Staines, Middx, TW18 2AZ. Deadline for the November issue: Oct 17.

Scanner Problems

Readers will hopefully have noticed some improvement already in the standard of reproduction of photographs in LipService over recent issues. Having upgraded the printer, the main loss in quality now appears in the final reproduction from the half toned master copy. he improved quality of the master print has also meant that problems - dark and light lines - caused by the scanner are more visible; this should also have been upgraded for the next issue.

Following the AGM we did investigate the possibility of using a higher quality printing process, but the cost was prohibitive. We are still considering a special issue as a part of the Millenium Project as well as a CD-ROM.

One way to see the pictures rather better is of course to read the online version at http://www.spelthorne.ac.uk/pm/lip/ this generally appears at about the same time as the print version and often contains some extra pictures. The new scanner will allow work submitted in colour print form to be shown in colour on the web site - but still only in black and white in print.

Shows to see

Sarah's Gardens

Sarah Thelwall has a show of her colour pictures of gardens at the International House Danan Gallery, 1-4 Yarmouth Place (just off Picadilly) from 12 Oct - 27 Nov 1998. (This is the same venue as our 1998 annual show earlier in the year.) More details.

IPSE

The IPSE annual show is enjoying a three month run at the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (until 24th of October) so why not pick up that bucket and spade and head south for sunny Worthing? Closed Sundays, otherwise 10-6.
IPSE continue their usual meetings - at Windmill House, Bolney (Jill Staples 01444 881891) and Inner Light at St John's Vicarage Purbrook, nr Portsmouth (Robin Coutts 01705 262307) - both meet on 30 Sept, 28 Oct & 25 Nov. Inner Light have the special treat of a Virginia Khuri workshop on 19 Sep.

Pond

Jill Staples' exhibition Pond will be on show at the Hereford City Art Gallery as a part of the Hereford Photography Festival from 12 Sep until 10 Oct. No doubt copies of her splendid book Pond are still available for sale (Jill Staples 01444 881891)

Urban Landscapes

Islington Arts Factory 2 Parkhurst Rd, N7

Photographs by Rosa Bardot and Josep Esclusa, 18 Sep-23 Oct. (Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 2-5.30pm)

Bardot & Esclusa's eerie photoworks show the city as if viewed by post-cataclysm archaeologists in a thousand years time. Through strange distortions and dreamy cityscapes buildings populate their own city in a surreal fascination that ultimately tells of humanity's desire for power and control.

Rosa Bardot and Josep Esclusa founded Photo Works in 1996 to develop 'a photographic style far away from today's commercial pressures - Their work deals with issues of urbanisation and the changing influence this has on our lives. At the end of the millennium, much of humanity lives concentrated in metropoli - people and cities evolving in tandem. Does the big city mirror its inhabitants - or vice versa?

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