Join us at ICP for a conversation between ICP Creative Director David Campany and photographer Michael Kenna, whose exhibition, Japan / A Love Story, is on view through September 28. Following the conversation, Kenna will be signing copies of Michael Kenna: Photographs and Stories in the ICP shop.
About the Speakers
Michael Kenna (he/him) is a British photographer based in the United States, best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs that capture quiet, atmospheric moments often made with long exposures at dawn or night.
In addition to his personal work, Michael’s photographs have been exhibited widely in galleries and museums across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and are held in major public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous monographs and continues to influence generations of photographers with his minimalist and meditative style.
David Campany is Creative Director of the International Center of Photography, New York. He has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.
Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan, 2005. © Michael Kenna/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery
