A Little Something For Michael Kenna Fans

PhotoEye gallery is in Santa Fe, NM, but it also has an online exhibition space. Currently featured, among others, is Michael Kenna’s Il Fiume Po (The River Po) series. If you enjoy his long exposure method for creating an “etherial light” effect in his black and white images, spend some time here.

About the series, Mr. Kenna wrote, “"The Po is ancient and I am only a fleeting visitor. I have always loved the Heraclitus quote that says No man has ever stepped in the same river twice; it is not the same river and he is not the same man. I like to apply these concepts to photography. Nothing, myself included, is ever the same. The river flows whether I am there or not, but I think there is some sort of energy exchange in every encounter. The Po has certainly influenced and changed me. I'm not so sure how I changed the Po, other than photographing it and exhibiting the works.”

Huanshang Mountains, Study 42, Anhui, China, 2010 (detail) from M97 Gallery announcement of an exhibition