Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna is an English photographer known for small, quiet black and white landscapes, often taken at dawn or at night with exposures of up to ten hours. Born in Widnes, he trained at Banbury School of Art and the London College of Printing before moving to San Francisco in 1977. His work is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the V&A and the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris. France made him an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2022, the year he gave his archive to the French state.