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Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2009 – It’s A Small World

Café Wall, Quay Arts

QuayArtsLogoweb Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2009

Thu 11 Mar – Mon 10 May 2010

Exhibition Opening Reception:

Thu 11 Mar, 6 – 8pm All Welcome

The Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year (IWPOY) 2009 returns to the Café Wall, displaying a breath-taking 50 shortlisted images from last years entries. This years theme; ‘It’s a small world’ is fairly open and includes; macros, close-ups, travel landscapes and locations (small world distances), small objects, flowers, animals or anything that a photographer would consider relates to this theme.

Once again, the many hundreds of entries have allowed IWPOY to view the diverse range of both amateur and professional photographers we have here on the Isle of Wight. Wildlife TV Presenter Chris Packham and former Fleet Street photographer and freelance writer Bob Aylott kindly agreed to assist with the judging.

Three winning entries selected by the judges in November 2009 were; David Vennings from Wellow scooping the Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year 2009 Award with ‘Hey Good Looking’. Second place went to Ian Scovell with ‘Solitude in a small world’ and third place secured by Jason Swain with ‘Rise Above Plastics – it all ends up somewhere’.

There were some great wildlife-themed prizes up for grabs kindly donated by the National Trust, Wildlife Trust and Gift to Nature. The winners received large Canvas Prints of their winning images. In addition, the overall winner received a copy of Bob Aylott’s new book “Six Days That Rocked the World” – a story in photographs of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

Following the success of previous IWPOY Competitions, the Isle of Wight Biodiversity Partnership this year came on-board to support an extra competition category encouraging budding photographers to get intimate with wildlife and bring the natural world that little bit closer to home. The theme was ‘It’s a very small world – Go Wild on Wight’ which aimed to inspire photographers to get out and about across the Isle of Wight, the emphasis being to know your home patch.

The ‘It’s a very small world – Go Wild on Wight’ category winner was Gay Farmer for her exquisite study of a ‘Drangonfly’. This was closely followed by Stuart Shore with ‘Red Squirrel’ and Paul Blackley with ‘Male Barn Owl’.

Along with these winning images, all of the fifty shortlisted entries from the main IWPOY category and Go Wild on Wight winners will be exhibited at Quay Arts and touring to other venues throughout 2010. This will further enable more people to recognise the quality and the skills of Island Photographers.

http://www.iwpoy.org/

IWPOY 2009 – It’s A Small World runs from: Thu 11 Mar – Mon 10 May,

Café Wall, Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight PO30 5BD

For further information and images please contact Cheryl Soutar or Georgia Newman

01983 824164 c.soutar@quayarts.org www.quayarts.org

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