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Michael Kenna

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Michael Kenna

Photographer
British·b. 1953·Website ↗
Known for:
long-exposure medium format landscapes
Education:
Banbury School of Art; London College of Printing (photography, 1976)

Michael Kenna has spent more than forty years making long-exposure black-and-white photographs of landscapes across Japan, France, the American Midwest, and elsewhere, typically before sunrise or after sunset. He works with medium format cameras and ILFORD film, printing his own photographs. His photographs of Hokkaido, Japan - taken over more than twenty years - are among the most sustained photographic investigations of a single landscape.

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Hasselblad 500C/M
Hasselblad 500C/M

Hasselblad

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Kenna has discussed using the Hasselblad 500C/M extensively in interviews about his long-exposure landscape practice.

Product description

Produced from 1970 to 1994, the 500C/M is a modular medium format SLR using 120 or 220 film. Its interchangeable magazines, focusing screens, and Carl Zeiss lenses made it the standard camera in professional studio and location photography for three decades.

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