ABOUT ME

Rip McAfee is a California fine-art photographer making large-scale photographs from the point where a familiar landscape begins to feel like something else.

Working across the West, he photographs coastlines, forests, weather, water, volcanic terrain, and the smaller details that can transform a place through light, texture, scale, and atmosphere.  Some images remain close to the visible world.  Others move toward abstraction, where smoke, bark, stone, or water begin to read as something unexpected.

Each work begins in the field and is developed slowly in the studio.  McAfee refines color, contrast, composition, and scale through multiple rounds of sample printing, building photographs for physical presence rather than for a screen.  The finished pieces are made to hold a room and reward a longer look.

Based in Sonoma County, McAfee creates contemporary photographic work for collectors, galleries, and design projects.  For inquiries, use the form below or email photography@ripmcafee.com.

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