About
Summer Shepherd (Sheps) is a Manchester-based photographer and artist whose practice focuses on the documentary of her surroundings, relationships and in-between moments of the mundane. Her practice, primarily analogue, experiments with discontinued formats and techniques with a preference for hands-on making and tactile results.

Pushing the bounds of the photographic image, Sheps’ work combines process with narrative, often using the technique of making to tell the story. Her love for tactility of construction influences her ideas towards what a photograph can be, often leading to publications and prints that encourage the viewer to come close to the work. In a digitally enhanced world, her fascination remains with older process, analogue forms of making, and bookbinding in hopes of keeping the craft to hand. 

Alongside explorations of photography as a medium, she loves printmaking, painting and writing, all of which contribute to her process as an artist, exploring feeling as opposed to visuals. Demonstrating emotion visually without emphasis on the visual quality feels paradoxical, yet inspires her practice as an artist and allows for storytelling in a subtle yet experimental way. 


Publications / Features
Issue #2, Visual Poetry Journal, May 2025
Issue 18, Al-Tiba 9, May 2025
Land Matters 2025, June 2025, self-published
Topographical Driftwood, March 2025, self-published
Can I Keep You?, December 2024, self-published

Exhibitions
Land Matters, The Salutation, Manchester, June 2025
Work Unity No.1 ‘Open Network’, Imc5533, Istanbul, May 2025
Hippocampus Collective, The Bridge Tavern, Manchester, May 2025
Distortion of the Surroundings, Parkside Cullingworth, May 2023

                         Summer Shepherd (Sheps)
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