Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or … - Michael Kenna

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Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.

Michael Kenna

Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it becomes visually pleasing in a two-dimensional photographic print. I search for subject matter with visual patterns, interesting abstractions and graphic compositions.

Graphic, Interesting, Three, Two, Visually

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

Photography, Forever, Gone, Possibilities, Photographic

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.

Black And White, Copy, Everything, Interpretation, See, World

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.

Black And White, Firsts, Mysterious, White, Colour, Against

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.

Memories, Believe, Eye, Compete, Imagination

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

Art, Broken, Golden, Arts, Concerned