Meghann Riepenhoff (born 1979) [1] is an American photographer, living in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and San Francisco, California, who makes camera-less cyanotypes. [2] [3] She has produced the books Littoral Drift + Ecotone (2018) and Ice (2022). Her work is held in the collections of the High Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [1] [4] [5]
Riepenhoff is from Atlanta, GA. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Georgia, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. [2] She lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and San Francisco, California. [2]
She makes camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the landscape and the ocean. [6] "Riepenhoff utilises waves, rain, wind and sediment in her process, creating physical inscriptions through the direct contact of these natural phenomena with her photographic materials". [7]
Riepenhoff's work is held in the following permanent collections: