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by Jason Evans The American photographer Lipper is a great speaker. Candid and expansive in her lecture style, she presents us with an engaging ball of emphatic energy potentially at odds with her little books of photographs. In 1998, on a commission from Photoworks, her tenacity was let loose on an unsuspecting West Sussex. The resulting document. Bed and Breakast, oozes claustrophobia amid synthetic, pastel respectability. Which is nice. Hemmed in by petty-mindedness in peach, this testament to curtain twitching reverberates with tongue tutting and tradftion-lite. Lipper's alien perspective reveals to us South East England's idiosyncracy and disintegration with all the poise of shopping channel nonentities selling daytime crud. In between the porcelain figurines and mock tudor placemats, her landscapes implore you to turn on your heel; to get the hell out before the heritage damn breaks. In her two previous books, Grapevine and trip. Lipper's experiments with documentary authenticity flipped convention beyond credibility. Here there is no reprieve for the respectable and the bovine. Pass the fancies, wont you dear? Jason Evans is a multi-disciplinary photographer with a diverse range of outputs, typified by an experimental approach to image-making. Known for his work in different media, he has enjoyed a career that engages with the fashion, music,
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