Abbey Hepner

Abbey Hepner is an artist and educator based near St. Louis, Missouri. Hepner’s work explores health, technology, and place through a combination of nineteenth-century analog photography and twenty-first-century technology. Hepner is originally from Utah, where her ancestors were downwinders who suffered in the aftermath of the United State’s nuclear testing. Her work has been widely exhibited in venues such as the Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival and SITE Santa Fe. Hepner’s monograph, The Light at the End of History, was published in 2021 and focuses on nuclear issues.