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by Michael Kenna (Photographer), Pico Iyer (With)
This elegant collaboration pairs Michael Kenna's luminous black-and-white landscapes with Pico Iyer's contemplative prose, tracing the parallels of two lives lived in motion.
Though they didn't meet until they were both in their sixties, photographer Michael Kenna and writer Pico Iyer had been unknowingly following similar paths for decades. Both were born in England, studied near Oxford in the 1970s, moved to the U.S. West Coast, and fell in love with Japan.This book brings their work together in a profoundly personal collaboration: more than sixty of Kenna's prints, each accompanied by an essay both from Iyer and Kenna himself. Kenna's work--minimalist, often made in long exposure--captures fleeting moments of calm and clarity: a fog-bound canal in Venice, a deserted jetty in Mallorca, a line of trees dissolving into snow in Hokkaido.
Spanning fifty years and five continents, these photographs offer meditations shaped by light, shadow, and quiet transformation. In prose that mirrors the restraint and depth of the images, Iyer writes about travel, childhood, coincidence, and the invisible threads that connect us.
Beautifully printed and designed for slow reading and close looking, Same Sun Same Moon is a book for art lovers, writers, travelers, and anyone drawn to the subtle interplay of image and word, solitude and connection.
Author Biography
MICHAEL KENNA is an English photographer best known for his black & white and landscape photography. Based in Seattle, he has produced more than 60 books in his distinguished career including the bestselling Forms of Japan, Rouge, Holga, Beyond Architecture, Buddha, and Upholland, St. Joseph's College--all published by Prestel.
PICO IYER is the author of 15 books on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. They include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, The Open Road, and The Art of Stillness. Since 1992 Iyer has divided his time between a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California, and suburban Japan.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.8 x 10.4 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: April 14, 2026
