Michael Kenna is an English photographer, who is known for his landscape photography. Kenna has attended Upholland College in Lancashire, the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire, and the London College of Printing. His work has been displayed in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Michael Kenna’s photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light by photographing at dawn or at night with very long exposures some lasting up to 10 hours. Kenna prefers to use Hasselblad cameras because of their durability and dependability.
I think the reason why I like Kenna’s work is because I am drawn to the same photographical components. He tends to stay away from photographing people or places where there are people. He waits for everyone to leave and then shows the after effects. He tends to photograph in an atmosphere that’s absence; where everything is quite and tranquil. I too enjoy walking around in the silence and just looking around at the surroundings and trying to see what other people overlook. For me finding that one thing brings it out of hiding so that everyone can see. I tend to photograph in places where lots of people walk or drive by and never stop to look at the whole picture. I remember driving down a nearby road and looking through the trees and something caught my eye. I stopped the car and took a walk to check it out. When I got closer, I noticed that it was a fort and then just behind that fort was a stream. I ended up developing those pictures and I remember someone had come up to me and asked where that picture was taken and they took me that they lived right down the road and never knew that anything was there.
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