If I had to give advice to other photographers, I would first suggest quickly getting over the camera … - Michael Kenna

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Michael Kenna

If I had to give advice to other photographers, I would first suggest quickly getting over the camera equipment questions. In my humble opinion, the make and format of a camera is ultimately low on the priority scale when it comes to making pictures.

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Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

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We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

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I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

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For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.

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The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

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