• BIOGRAPHY

    Michael Kenna’s mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. With long time-exposures, which might last throughout the night, his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive. 
     
    Kenna is particularly well-known for the intimate scale of his photography and his meticulous personal printing style. He works in the traditional, non-digital, silver photographic medium. His exquisitely hand crafted black and white prints, which he  makes in his own darkroom, reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. 
     
    During Kenna’s fifty year career, his photographs have been shown in almost a thousand one-person gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world, and are included in over a hundred permanent institutional collections, including; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 
     
    Ninety monographs and exhibition catalogs have been so far published on Kenna’s work, including; Michael Kenna - A Twenty Year Retrospective (Treville, 1994 and Nazraeli Press, 2000); Impossible to Forget (Marval and Nazraeli Press, 2001); Japan (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2003); Michael Kenna – A Retrospective (BnF, 2009); Immagini del Settimo Giorno (Skira, 2010); China (Posts and Telecom Press, 2014); France (Nazraeli Press, 2014); Forms of Japan (Prestel, 2015); Rafu (Nazraeli Press and Shuppan Kyodosha, 2018); Beyond Architecture - Michael Kenna (Prestel, 2019) and Michael Kenna - Photographs and Stories (Nazraeli Press, 2023).
     
    Born in Widnes, Lancashire, England in 1953, Kenna currently lives with his family in Seattle, Washington, USA, and continues to photograph throughout the world.
     
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    Sponsored and presented by Nikkei and the Financial Times
    Curated by Peter Fetterman, organised and produced by Peter Fetterman Gallery
    Exhibition & Tour Director - Kate Stevens

    Art Direction:
    Tokyo - Office RAM, Gallery Art Unlimited
    Los Angeles and London  - Ethos Fine Arts
    Hong Kong  - Design for Culture

    贊助及呈獻 日本經濟新聞及英國《金融時報》

    主辦及製作 Peter Fetterman Gallery 策劃人 Peter Fetterman 

    展覽總監 Kate Stevens

     

    美術指導：

    東京 - Office RAM, Gallery Art Unlimited
    洛杉磯及倫敦 -Ethos Fine Arts

    香港 - Design for Culture


    主催 日本経済新聞社、Financial Times

    企画 Peter Fetterman Gallery

    展覧会・ツアーディレクター Kate Stevens


    アートディレクション：

    東京 - RAM, Gallery Art Unlimited

    ロサンゼルス、ロンドン - Ethos Fine Arts

    香港 -  Design for Culture