Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna is well known for his use of black-and-white landscape photography. What is landscape photography? Landscape photography focuses on capturing the true beauty of nature, anything naturalistic such as trees, mountains, or sand dunes can be considered a landscape. Michael Kenna is one of the most unique landscape photographers because he’s seen as an anomaly. As a contemporary photographer, he uses black and white in his work which is more traditional than what other contemporary photographers work it. Torii, Study 2, Takaishima, Biwa Lake, Honshu, Japan, 2007 What makes Michael Kenna’s work so different is his certain perspective of nature. Nature is colorful and beautiful but Michael Kenna shows a different aspect of nature through landscape photography by illustrating a more mysterious side of what we see daily. Kenna has a unique vision of nature, and with traditional aspects throughout his wo...