About the Artist

All the photography on this site is the work of me, Chris Shepherd. I am based in Epping Forest, Essex.

I am Location Editor and Moderator for the UK's leading photography website PHOTOzine. I am also a member of The Painting with Light Society - a group of top landscape photographers from across East Anglia.

Photography first interested me when I received the gift of a small "point and shoot" camera that started a love affair with photography which continues to this day.
For me the challenge of photography to be one of reducing an image to its essentials, where a painter starts with a blank canvas and adds to it to get the final image, a photographer starts with an image and frames and crops till he/she gets to the image that they seek. The challenge I enjoy most is to reduce the beauty,history and atmosphere of a place down to a single frame.

All of the images on the site were captured digitally. Although I occasionally allow myself "flights of fancy" in PhotoShop, nearly all the images are the result of in-camera capture and processing to mimic traditional darkroom techniques. To me photography is more about capturing the moment, rather than constructing that moment later in a computer.

I am available for commissions - please use contacts to get in touch with your requirements.

Where to See My Images

There are load of images in the gallery and exhibitions sections of this site.
Both Images of Essex and Painters With Light websites.

I hold various exhibitions throughout the UK - check my blog or the front page for the latest news.

Permanent Galleries and Exhibitions

A selection of images are available for viewing at:

The Gallery
The Craft Village
View Garden Centre, Old Chelmsford Road
Rawath, Wickford,Essex
SS11 8SJ

In conjunction with The Painting with Light Society, I have images hanging in:
The Virgina Court Hotel
Cliff Avenue
Comer
Norfolk
NR27 0AN

Chris on Temple Field, Upshire - Epping Forest. April 2009

Interviews

• The Turkish web based photography magazine Fotoritim have a feature on me.
  If you don't read Turkish the English translation is further down the page.
• I was also Blab Pictures photographer of the week - 20th January 2009.

Published Work

I have had pictures and articles featured in both Essex Life Magazine & Outdoor Photography.