Pip Shepley
Treasurer
Pip Shepley is a lens-based artist who is fascinated by the interplay of the artistic and technical sides of photography. Shepley frequently captures using infrared, his imagination piqued by capturing a subject which the eye cannot perceive. His photographs explores the unseeable feeling of a place or object by paring it down to a simpler level.
Currently he is exploring the capabilities of a camera obscura which he designed and built. The process merges tremendous digital control with the unpredictability and mystery of analog processes. It touches his passion for science and creativity.
Pip started photography while at Milton Academy, completing the offered courses as well as an independent study project in photography. He ran lab sessions and was photo editor of the yearbook and newspaper. He has since studied art and photography at many venues including Maine Media Workshops + College, New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography and MassArt. His teachers include Brenton Hamilton, Tillman Crane, Michael A. Smith, Jon Cone, Stephen Tourlentes, and David H. Wells. He continues to work with photographers John Paul Caponigro, Vincent Versace and Ron Rosenstock. Pip was a member of the Griffin’s Atelier 20 and 38.
Shepley’s photographs have been in over 60 exhibits, including the Griffin Museum of Photography, Center for Photographic Arts in California, A Smith Gallery in Texas, PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, Black Box Gallery in Oregon, and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. He is a Board member of the BCA Photo Group in Bedford, MA, where he invites renowned photographers to present to the organization.
Shepley’s 32 year career at Mass. Electric Construction Co. was in the cradle-to-grave financial management of the design and building electrical mega-projects, primarily the signals, traction power and communications systems for rail systems throughout the US. He retired in 2013 after 17 years as Vice President.
Pip holds a BA in Romance Languages from Colorado College. He enjoys sailing, skiing, and hiking with his wife, artist Martha Wakefield. They live in Belmont, MA.
