Michael Kenna, born in 1953 in Widnes, is a British landscape photographer. He currently lives in Seattle, USA.
At a very young age, he became passionate about the Arts and enrolled at the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire in 1972 and at the London College of Printing where he studied photography. He graduated in 1976.
Michael Kenna is one of** the most important landscape photographers of his generation**. For forty years, Michael Kenna has sublimates his subject, the landscape.
His photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of the night, in mist or fog, focus mainly on the interaction between natural landscapes and landscapes where man has left traces.
Kenna is a photographer at the same time diurnal and nocturnal, fascinated by the moments of the day when the light is the most moving.
Thanks to the very long exposure openings, which can last up to 10 hours, his photographs often include details that the eye can not see.
