Meghann Riepenhoff

Meghann Riepenhoff (born 1979) is an American photographer, living in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and San Francisco, California, who makes camera-less cyanotypes. She has produced the books Littoral Drift + Ecotone 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.

Life and work Riepenhoff is from Atlanta, GA. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Georgia, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. "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".

Publications Littoral Drift + Ecotone. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius; New York City: Yossi Milo, 2018. . Ice. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius; New York City: Yossi Milo, 2022. Photography by Riepenhoff, text by Rebecca Solnit. .

Group exhibitions Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 2016 New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 2018

Awards 2018: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation