Michael Kenna

A bit of a tribute today to one of the world's great landscape photographers, Michael Kenna.

I was fortnate to find time to see an exhibition of his prints at Chris Beetles Gallery near Picadilly Circus. For those of you who don't know Kenna's work, it has a number of characteristics. It is shot on film and hand printed. It is in black and white. Many are shot before dawn or after dusk. And he has a remarkable ability to simplify and rationalise the elements in a landscape that produce compositions that are quite exquisite. His prints are very collectable and of course very expensive. To indulge in that I would require the services of a divorce lawyer.

Kenna's own web site

This less than perfect example of street photography is of the gallery in Swallow Street off Picadilly, taken on an iPhone with the Hipstamatic app.