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In the second chapter of Michael Kenna's Darkroom Diaries, Michael invites you into his personal darkroom in Seattle, USA and explains how he interprets each negative. But first Luke Whitaker, owner of the Bosham Gallery, sheds further light on Michael's printing process.

"Michael Kenna has been photographing on film and making silver gelatin prints in his own darkroom for over 50 years. In the first of a series of five chapters sharing extracts from Kenna's Darkroom Diaries, we are reminded why prints made in the traditional analogue process, printed from original film negatives by hand in the darkroom, are so special.  Michael will discuss his process of photographing on film and will explain the patient and painstaking work of making prints by hand in his darkroom which has allowed him to produce the distinct images that are celebrated for their rich blacks, luminous highlights and a grainy aesthetic that compliments the ethereal lighting his work is best known for."  Luke Whitaker