Ratcliffe Power Station Magazines are obsolete and useless

are obsolete and useless

historical threads intersect

each in their own words

but didn´t we have that already

distance between the telling and the watching

Ratcliffe Power Station Magazines are obsolete and uselessMichael Kenna first began photographing the Ratcliffe power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern