Memberships

Ypsilanti Fine Arts Club

Detroit Artists Market

Wedding Portrait Photographers International (past)

Exhibitions

Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition 2026 - (Juried), Scarab Club, Detroit, April-May 2026

"Exposures 2026 Exhibit" - (Juried) Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, Mich, April 2026
People's Choice Award for Fire Hydrant Kids (Summer Fun)

"Renewal: Spring" - (Juried) Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, April 2026

2026 Teresa Lousias Juried Photography Exhibition - (Juried) February 2026

"Lovin' Feelin'" - (Juried) Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, January 2026

Farmington City Hall Two-Year Public Art Exhibit (Juried) - December 2026 - Ongoing

"Faces, Faces Art Exhibit" - (Juried), PARC Art Gallery, Plymouth, Mich., Fall 2025
Runner Up for Fire Hydrant Kids

"Wisdom Eye: Detroit Jazz" art exhibit, Vesey Lane Home Goods, Detroit, Mich., Summer-Fall 2025

"Good Mourning Art Exhibit" (Juried), Office Space Art Gallery, Detroit, Mich., Summer 2025

54nd Scarab Club Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography 2025 (Juried), Summer 2025

Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition (Juried), Scarab Club, Detroit, March 2025

"My Masterpiece Exhibition" (Juried), Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Fall 2024

"Black and White" (Juried), Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Summer 2024
(Honorable Mention)

Faculty Art Exhibit (Juried), Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti, fall of 2024.

Northville Art House (Juried) - Small Works art exhibit - fall of 2023

Farmington City Hall Two-Year Public Art Exhibit (Juried) - fall of 2023

Plymouth Coffee Bean Co. – Two-month solo exhibition of 20 images. Summer 2023

52nd Scarab Club Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Photography 2023 (Juried) – Two images

Faculty Art Exhibit (Juried) , Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fall 2022

Focus Exhibition (Juried), Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Grosse Pointe War Memorial, Summer 2022

Spain 2018 Photography Exhibit – Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor. November 2018

Artist Statement

My long career as a journalist, including several years as a crime reporter, is reflected in my street and fine art photography, which documents everyday life by capturing special moments that range from gritty to the sublime. Though I have spent much of my career on the word side in journalism, first as a reporter and later as an editor, my true passion for the past couple of decades has been photography. For years, I ran a successful side business doing wedding and portrait and occasional commercial photography, but my real love is being out on the streets looking for what famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called "The Decisive Moment." Much of my work is centered around Detroit and Ann Arbor, but my travels have included Italy (2007) and Spain (2018) as part of my photography education. For the past several years, I have been a part-time photography instructor at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor. Photography Owner-operator of Steve Pepple Photography. My photographs have appeared in newspapers, magazines, catalogs, advertisements, book covers and more.

Websites/Social Media

Instagram.com/stevenpepple/

Blue Sky Social: steve-pepple.bsky.social

Teaching

Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, part-time photography instructor, 2020-present

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., part-time instructor, digital journalism, 2012-2018

Journalism

Detroit Free Press – Regional Editor, 2012-2020; Assistant News Editor 2022-present (part-time)

Chalkbeat magazine – Freelance Editor – summer 2021

Arbor News – Metro Editor 1997-2009

AnnArbor.com – News production director, 2009-2012

Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Herald-Palladium – Managing Editor

List of recent newspaper articles (Muck Rack)

Education

Eastern Michigan University, BA – Literature, journalism, political science

Washtenaw Community College – Photography, including study abroad in Italy (2007) and Spain (2018)

Metro Detroit • Ann Arbor