Michael Kenna | Featured in The Guardian

Sakura and Full Moon, Study 2, Urakawa, Hokkaido, 2015, Silver Gelatin Print, Courtesy of the artist

We are pleased to share that The Guardian has recently featured a series of images from Michael Kenna's extensive travels to Japan! Click here to view the feature.

The publication writes: "Celebrated as one of the world’s most prominent landscape photographers, Kenna is known for his poetic black-and-white images from locations around the globe." 

Since first traveling to Japan in 1987, Michael has returned on numerous occasions, extensively photographic a country that has had a profound effect on his practice - shaping his vision of elegant minimalism. The artist still continues to develop photographs in his own darkroom using the silver gelatin process, creating images that have an enormous amount of depth and intimacy.

Kindly visit the artist's page on our website for various works from his Japan series, as well as a myriad of other locations he has documented over his extensive career, which spans four decades, over four-hundred and fifty solo exhibitions, and has work included in more than a hundred permanent collections.