Fine Art Prints

Three signature collections, each plate finished at full resolution and printed to order — framed, canvas and other formats via Fine Art America. Every sale helps fund my conservation fieldwork.

The Sentinel, framed black-and-white print of a Cape buffalo hanging above a sofa
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Collection 01 · Black & White

Wild Africa

Low-key monochrome studies of Africa's great animals, made face to face.

Printed to order — framed, canvas and other formats.

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Collection 02 · High Key

Africa in Light

A new high-key series from southern Africa — animals emerging from bright, white light.

Further plates will be added over time.

Printed to order — framed, canvas and other formats.

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Collection 03 · Abstract

Africa in Form

Abstract studies of pattern, texture and movement from Africa's animals.

Further plates will be added over time.

Printed to order — framed, canvas and other formats.

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The Book

My first book, in print.

Reading the Sea — cover, James Kenning

Reading the Sea

Learning to Photograph a Life Afloat

Hardback — 10 × 8.4 in — Full colour
£35 + £8 UK postage & packing
In stock — signed copies available

Most sailing photographs promise the same thing: a heeled hull, spray off the bow, a perfect sky. This book is interested in everything that idea leaves out.

Reading the Sea follows Arkyla, a 45-foot Swedish-built bluewater cruiser, and the years of learning that led to her captain crossing an ocean in her — through the Mediterranean, the Canaries, and Cape Verde to the Caribbean, and home again by way of the Azores. Along the way: an electrical storm off Salcombe with the camera left below, because some moments are worth surviving rather than shooting; a mid-Atlantic whale strike and eight hundred improvised miles to landfall; a becalmed afternoon four kilometres above the seafloor and six hundred miles from anywhere; and the long, unphotogenic stretches in between that make up most of what a passage actually is.

Told through story rather than settings, and organised by theme rather than itinerary, this is a book about learning to see — and about the discipline of choosing, afterward, which photographs actually deserve to survive the edit.

James Kenning is a Royal Air Force veteran turned RYA Yachtmaster Offshore, whose photography and writing have appeared widely in the yachting press, including Yachting World and Yachting Monthly.

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See inside
Reading the Sea — Contents page
Reading the Sea — Preface page
Reading the Sea — interior spread, dolphin alongside the bow
Reading the Sea — chapter opener, Reading Weather and Light
Reading the Sea — interior spread, the boat in motion
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