Posts tagged Michael Kenna
Flesh of Stone

I have stated on numerous occasions that I do not include people in my photographs as I feel they gave away the scale and became the main focus of the viewer’s attention. Most of my photography relates to the presence of absence.

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Trees

The dense forests and their gaps of light as well as the tiny trees isolated within idyllic landscapes highlight the diversity of the photographed specimens as much as the plurality of the compositions.

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Kussharo Lake Tree

I have photographed countless trees, but this one had a special character, like an oversized bonzai – elegant, and graphically powerful. There was something quintessentially Japanese in its shape, reminiscent of a woodblock print…

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Hokkaido

Hokkaido is a precious treasure. I have found it to be highly intriguing, gently seductive, dangerously wild and hopelessly romantic.

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Japan

The landscapes are weightless and look like they are dancing buoyantly in midair, mountains are not solidly stable on the earth, they look insecure, as if they could be blown away by a single breath.

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