Michael Kenna is an English photographer best known for his black & white landscapes. Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. Since about 1986 he has mainly used Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras and this accounts for the square format of most of his photographs. The main exception was for the photographs in Monique's Kindergarten for which a 4x5' large format camera was employed.
I really like Kenna's photographs, so much so I will try using similar techniques (such as the long exposures and composition) in my landscape work. As well as this, I think Kenna has done a fantastic job of printing from his negatives to make smooth, yet high contrast black and white prints. The detail retained from using medium and large format film is great, I don't think the photographs would be anywhere near as interesting if the scenes were shot digitally, or even on 35mm film.
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