"I don’t think that I would express my “finding” photography as the thing I was supposed to be doing. There was a lot I wanted to know about the world, and even more that I did not know about myself. Photography was a way of expression which touched certain subjective, deep sensibilities within myself and definitely was a way for me to engage with a world about which I knew very little." - Sheron Rupp
Sheron Rupp was born in 1943 in Mansfield, Ohio where she spent her formative years. After graduating in 1965 with degrees in sociology and psychology from Denison University, she moved to the east coast and developed a career in university press publishing.
She considers herself a self-taught photographer, having taken a course in beginning photography at a local arts center in Cambridge, Ma. when she acquired her first camera around 1970. For a short time, Sheron was enrolled in evening classes in drawing and design at the Boston Museum School.
In 1980, Sheron was accepted into a new MFA program in photography between the University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College. It was at this time that she began photographing with color film. At almost forty, Sheron received her MFA degree in photography in 1982.
Today Sheron Rupp is best known for her color photographs of people, especially children, living in rural, small towns in America. Her photographs often include the rough and tumble of back yards and the quotidian moments in family interactions.