If you walked into the International Center of Photography in New York City to see an exhibition of the work of Meghann Riepenhoff, you might think you were in the wrong building.

For you would be looking at images that look more like abstract expressionist paintings than photographs. Perhaps they were intended to hang at The Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim Museum? 

 Indeed, the center would be the right place, and you would have taken your first step into the artistic matrix that is Meghann Riepenhoff. Her work provokes questions about the process of photography, the relationship between the photographer and the subject matter (which is always the natural world), the chemical process that creates the image, the dynamic between the viewer and the art itself, how the images continue to evolve over time depending upon their exposure to light.