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I had the amazing opportunity to work for Michael Kenna during 2001 and 2002. He was definitely not the photographer mentioned in the earlier post. As beautiful as his images are, they’re nothing compared to the man who takes them. Michael is an amazing person and if you subscribe to the adage that good things happen to good people, Michael is the only proof you’ll need to state your case.

I mostly worked on Michael’s prints, getting them ready for sale or exhibition. Michael does all his own printing. And it is his fine art black and white prints that have brought him world wide recognition. And I can’t say this enough, deservedly so.

But occasionally, Michael has been know to take on a commercial job, mostly for the auto industry. And as it so happened, he was doing a job for Mercedes-Benz and needed a second assistant. Here’s where the story gets better, his first assistant was one of my dearest and closest friends, Rolfe Horn. So I’m working with Rolfe for Michael shooting a Benz out in the middle of the Tehachapi Desert. One day we finish pretty early and Rolfe makes the suggestion we take the cameras out and take some of our own images. I was all in until I remembered I left my camera bag back at the hotel.

Michael reaches into his camera bag, pulls out one of his Hassey’s and says, “Need some film?”

This was taken that night, with Michael’s camera.