The Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year (IWPOY) Exhibition of 2008 was launched at the Quay Arts Centre, on Thursday and runs through to Monday 28th April on the Cafe Wall.

The fifty shortlisted images from the 2007 competition are being exhibited from those photographers lucky enough to be selected for the ‘IWPOY Wall of Fame’ by a panel of judges. 

The IWPOY judges commented that it was a difficult task in deciding on the final 50 as there was once again such a high standard of entries.

The Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year competition, was the initial concept of Amanda Johnson ( Editor of Island Pulse and founder of the Isle of Wight Digital Imaging Group)  who said,

“It’s great to see how much interest the Isle of Wight Photographer of The Year competition has generated since its inception in 2006.  There are clearly a lot of talented people out there with a real passion for both photography and the Isle of Wight.

I am grateful for the time and effort that all the entrants have put into their submissions. Whilst there are the obvious top three winners of the IWPOY, I feel all of the 50 chosen images including the 47 runners up, are representative of winners too!”

Over 40 photographers and guests attended the exhibition launch and commented on the quality of the images and new approach to the exhibition itself.

A special thanks to both the Island Photo Centre and Essential for providing such high quality prints and special thanks to Jo Hummel-Newell (pictured below), Quay Arts Exhibition co-ordinator, for her hard work in setting the exhibition up.

 

Hopefully, a visit to the Quay Arts to view this exhibition and recognise the talented photographers we have here on the Island, will inspire you to enter the IWPOY competition yourself, the organisers look forward to seeing your images.

Please Note: IWPOY material is copyrightand not provided for open source, anyone wishing to use any of the materials displayed, whether for public, private or commercial use must first contact IWPOY organisers direct for permission or licence of use, click HERE: IWPOY

Related Link: Jo Blogs @ Quay Arts 

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