Michael Kenna, born in Widnes, England in 1953, is a renown photographer of black-and-white contemporary landscapes.
Kenna attended the Banbury School of Art in Oxfordshire from 1972 to 1973 to study photography and painting. In 1977, he moved to San Francisco, California and has remained in the United States since then.
Kenna's works have been exhibited in Princeton Art Museum, Robert Mann Gallery (New York), and Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco) among others, and are held in permanent collections of Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), The National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).