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 ePHOTOzine. I am also a member of The Painting with Light Society - a group of top landscape photographers from accross 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. An increasingly common request is for the reconstruction/ reprinting of treasured family photos. Being familiar with digital techniques I can repair and enhance these pictures and professionally print these treasured memories. Current projects can be found here.
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.