Paul Kenny
The incredible work of Paul Kenny.
Ribblehead. I was here yesterday, a mad man huddled in a mossy hole, in the dark, waiting to take a picture of a train soaked, I took those pictures, in a flurry of wind and driving moorland rain. I’m tired. Sleep deprived after 3 days of early mornings and late nights… been busy chasing…
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Three very special days in February, when scheduled main line steam-hauled passenger services were organised to run on the historic Settle to Carlisle Railway line. A ‘Plandampf’ service.
The new Northern timetables for the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle railway line and the Leeds-Morecambe railway line through Bentham are now available. Dec 2016 – May 2017. Both feature my work. A snap on the beach at Morecambe’s brilliant Catch The Wind Kite Festival last year, and a walk by the weir on the River Eden in Armathwaite. Nice to share…
DetailsI’m reading this at the moment – ‘Winter Count’ by Barry Lopez. Short stories written with a purity and sparseness of language. And something stunning happens. Every time. – Picture driving by a prairie farm, seeing a man brushing a bare field with a broom. Years later you pass again, and he’s still there, sweeping.…
DetailsThere is, not far from Ribblehead station, a hidden, abandoned hamlet – identified only by the cluster of trees which surrounds it.
‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.’ ~ John Muir
What photographers perceive as ‘The North’ seems to be land devoid of all people, if the images at this show are anything to go by…
‘no man ever steps in the same river twice, because it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.’ ~ Heraclitus. Words that came to me via both musician Kris Drever and writer Katharine Norbury this week. A sweet coincidence.
DetailsGrisedale I’ve wanted to explore Grisedale for a long time. A three mile long cul-de-sac dale, which sits over the other side of Low Moor ridge at Garsdale Head, beneath Baugh Fell. Garsdale, Sedbergh, Ravenstonedale, and Mallerstang are its closest neighbouring dales. My first attempt to explore had been thwarted by water
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