Visited the exhibition which is being held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich until 15th March. As expected there was a wide range of talents and ability although less than I have seen at other Camera Club exhibitions. In part this was due to the method of selection that tends to favour the best photographers within the Club. The effect of this was to allow one member to dominate the exhibition and comments were made that perhaps the exhibition should have been named after him. In other Club exhibitions that I have visited the norm is for all members who wish to exhibit their images have at least one entry and this provides the visitor with some idea as to the range of talents within the Club. Personally I prefer the latter system.
It is always difficult at the time to know what it is that we get from visiting exhibitions. Where the exhibition is of one person's work, particularly where it is in the form of a retrospective, it is possible to see the development over time and the way that different subjects are handled. It allows for a more general approach and an appreciation of the skills and talents of the individual. Where the exhibition is of a large number of people's work there is inevitably a conflict between images adjacent to each other with the risk that the judgement is made as to whether one is better than the other. Study and contemplation of individual images is difficult and I find myself tending to skip glance until I come across something that grabs my interest.
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