Special envoy to Chaumont-sur-Loire (Loir-et-Cher)
Smiling like the good giant of the legends, curled like a putti that would have grown up, Michael Kenna releases this quiet authority which testifies to an aptitude for happiness.
Was it his British upbringing, born in 1953 in Widnes, Lancashire, who considered the priesthood and kept a healthy distance from fashion and honours?
Is it the fruit of his thousands of hours in the heart of this silent nature, haloed by the light of a church, that his silver photography magnifies in small, precious, refined formats, obtained by long exposure times, drawn by his care, disseminated with science as Dürer's engravings were once?
He came with his family to the domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire (Loir-et-Cher), which exhibits at the castle 88 of his photos of trees, a delicate series of blacks and whites, bark and silhouettes, snow and mist, imperious trunks and outstretched branches like arms, which give the landscape…
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