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‘The work, building on themes developed over fifty years, tries to find the awe-inspiring in that which is easily passed by. It contains issues of fragility, beauty and transience in the landscape: marks and scars left by man and the potential threat to the few remaining areas of wilderness. Looking at the micro and thinking about the macro, I aim for each print to be a beautiful, irresistible, thought provoking object.’ – Paul Kenny
"Constantly evolving and adapting with successive technologies, he has honed his craft and themes for over fifty years. The pictures created throughout his career convey a sense of both the awe and fragility that is intertwined with our relationship to the natural world." - Martin Barnes
"What you see is not what Kenny saw as he walked: it is whathe wants you to see after the hard staring, the endless trial and error of his alchemy, and after throwing away the recalcitrant or the banal ones. In the end, that’s what makes him such a very fine photographer. He transcends the facts in his eye without betraying them. Every picture is an invitation to dream, yet every one is a faithful account of what was there, drying in his damp studio in the north east of England." - Francis Hodgson
"Constantly evolving and adapting with successive technologies, he has honed his craft and themes for over fifty years. The pictures created throughout his career convey a sense of both the awe and fragility that is intertwined with our relationship to the natural world." - Martin Barnes
"What you see is not what Kenny saw as he walked: it is whathe wants you to see after the hard staring, the endless trial and error of his alchemy, and after throwing away the recalcitrant or the banal ones. In the end, that’s what makes him such a very fine photographer. He transcends the facts in his eye without betraying them. Every picture is an invitation to dream, yet every one is a faithful account of what was there, drying in his damp studio in the north east of England." - Francis Hodgson
I’ve been working for almost two years developing my work into moving images. They are not exactly animation and not exactly movies. They are like slowly evolving versions of my still work. Martin Barnes at the V&A coined the term “moving stills”, which I quite like.
Early pieces can be seen HERE
The most finished piece Bun na Sphéire (The Bottom of the Sky) is 15.5 minutes and was so successful I commissioned the composer Richard J Birkin to write and record an original soundtrack . Now the two are combined I think it’s the most assured, lovely piece of work I’ve ever made.
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