In many ways Kenna is an anachronistic contemporary to the Pictorialists, the pioneer pre-Modernist movement of photographers that saw the atmosphere of teh photograph as central to it emotive force.

Kenna's photography places an emotional hold over its viewer through the atmospheric effects of photographing at night, in crepuscular light or in mist, fog and snow.

Kenna does not seek to present an accurate copy of the world, but to extract something original and emotive from it.

Kenna prints all his own work in the darkroom, ensuring that the tonality of his small, black and white images is evocative rather than informative, interpretive rather than documentary.

Directing his lens towards overlooked corners, unlikely angles and forgotten structures, Kenna allows the footprints and shadows left by departed occupants to install his photographs with memory. These memories show sometimes harmonious, but often disjunctive, connection between the environment and its inhabitants.

Flora La Thangue