Michael Kenna (Widnes, UK, 1953) Michael Kenna's eerie photographs, often taken at dawn or in the dark hours of night, focus primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and man-made structures. Kenna is both a daytime and nighttime photographer, fascinated by light when it is most docile. With long exposures, which can last all night, photographs of him can record details that the human eye is not able to perceive.
Kenna is particularly known for the intimate scale of his photography and the meticulous personal printing style of his. He works in the traditional silver photographic medium, not digital. His exquisitely hand-crafted black and white prints, which he makes in his own darkroom, reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history and complete originality.
During Kenna's fifty-year career, his photographic prints have been shown in nearly five hundred solo exhibitions and more than four hundred group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. They are also included in more than one hundred permanent institutional collections. Eighty-five monographs and exhibition catalogs of Kenna's work have been published to date.
Michael Kenna currently lives and works in Seattle, USA.
Kenna is particularly known for the intimate scale of his photography and the meticulous personal printing style of his. He works in the traditional silver photographic medium, not digital. His exquisitely hand-crafted black and white prints, which he makes in his own darkroom, reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history and complete originality.
During Kenna's fifty-year career, his photographic prints have been shown in nearly five hundred solo exhibitions and more than four hundred group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. They are also included in more than one hundred permanent institutional collections. Eighty-five monographs and exhibition catalogs of Kenna's work have been published to date.
Michael Kenna currently lives and works in Seattle, USA.
