Thank you for reading our 2022 Newsletter.
We had a busy year releasing two books, The Healing Power of Water and Martha’s Vineyard; creating a portfolio of photographs from the coast of Maine for an upcoming book, signing prints, teaching a week long course at the WoodenBoat School and more!

 

We had a fantastic time with this group of students exploring the boats, coast, water and land around WoodenBoat School in Brooklin Maine.
Please join us for the next class, September 10-16th. Click here to learn more and to register.

 

 

Racing Down the Reach

This course coincides with the annual Schooner Sail In at WoodenBoat, where the students will have multiple opportunities to photograph these historic windjammers from land and from a boat.

 

Preparing and shipping out new releases. Which was your favorite?

 

Michael signing a set of custom sailing prints.

 

Michael on location in Martha’s Vineyard

We hope that you enjoy the below selection of new photographs taken in 2022.

 

Blue Hill Bay, Maine

Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny, precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go.

Anita Krizzan

 

Aquinnah, Martha’s Vineyard

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.

Rumi

 

Naskeag Point, Maine

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

 

Blue Hill Bay, Maine

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Acadia National Park, Maine

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

 

Michael and Christine on the infamous ‘Crush’, Brooklin Maine

Thank you for reading. Fair winds and following seas,
Michael and Christine

 

 

Custom sizes and new framing options are available including borderless aluminium mounted photographs. Contact us or stop by one of the fine art galleries that carry Michael’s work to learn more.

 

We are very excited to announce our third year teaching the Marine & Seascape Photography week long course at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine. Click here to learn more.

 

Students explore Babson Island on a foggy morning.

 

Students explore the WoodenBoat School campus.

 

Photographing the Deer Isle bridge on one of our many outings.

 

 

We are very excited to share the pre-release of two new books, The Healing Power of Water and Martha’s Vineyard. Both books are available for pre-purchase in our store by clicking here.

 

The Healing Power of Water

 

The most precious natural resource on our planet, water has the power to soothe, hydrate, and heal. World-renowned film photographer Michael Kahn invites us into this meditative realm with more than 60 black-and-white images of pristine waters in North America, Italy, and England, capturing the mists, movement, and quiet depths. He collects his images on traditional black-and-white film and produces luminous silver gelatin prints in his darkroom. The warmly toned photographs, printed in tritone, are interspersed with inspirational quotes that reveal the deep spiritual connection we have with water, and its restorative power.

 

8×8”, 104 pages, $24.99 signed, March 2022 Release

 

Martha’s Vineyard

 

In over 60 handmade, black-and-white photographs, renowned film photographer Michael Kahn renders Martha’s Vineyard beachscapes in exquisite detail. Produced in his darkroom, these masterful, curated images depict the diversity and intense beauty of this enchanting island. Scenes of Edgartown, South Beach, Zack’s Cliffs, and other locations are interspersed with inspirational quotes and poetry. The warm, tritone-printed images represent the artist’s 22 years of work using a 1950s camera to capture the area’s sculpted beaches on traditional film, and producing the images as luminous silver gelatin prints.

 

8×8”, 112 pages, $24.99 signed, March 2022 Release

 

Michael is working on a new series of glacial erratic photographs. We hope that you enjoy these new photographs from the beautiful coast of Maine.

 

Life is a series of a thousand of tiny miracles. Notice them.

Unknown

 

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with people the same happiness.

Khalil Gibran

 

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is an adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

 

More isn’t always better. Sometimes it’s just more.

Sabrina Fairchild

 

Thank you for reading. Fair winds and following seas,
Michael and Christine

 

We are incredibly grateful for the world class galleries that carry Michael’s photography. Please visit one this summer.

Winter Dune

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course.

Jacque Yves-Cousteau

 

Dory in the Mist

When everything is stripped away, the essential is revealed.

BKS Iyengar

 

Early Morning

I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

 

Goose Rocks Beach

Wherever you are, it is always at the beginning. That’s why life is so beautiful, so young, so fresh.

Osho

 

Aquinnah

these mountains
that you are carrying,
you were only
supposed to climb.

Najwa Zebian

 

Island Beach

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

Paulo Coelho

 

Passage

Next Time
 
Next time what I’d do is look at
the earth before saying anything. I’d stop
just before going into a house
and be an emperor for a minute
and listen better to the wind
or to the air being still.
When anyone talked to me, whether
blame or praise or just passing time,
I’d watch the face, how the mouth
has to work, and see any strain, any
sign of what lifted the voice.
 
And for all, I’d know more — the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light.

Mary Oliver

 

Bolero

Every day
is a good day.

Ummon

 

Three Dories

The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness.

Paulo Coelho

 

Wave Study

The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

 

Wild Rose

The world is an echoing place. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back.

Osho

 

Off Shore

The essence of nature is change, a never-ending expression and re-expression of itself.

BKS Iyengar

 

Thank you for reading, we hope you enjoyed this gift. We wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy new year!
Michael and Christine

Dory in the Marsh

This new stunning image is being offered as a 14×14″ and 19×19″ toned, handmade silver gelatin photograph.

 

Vela, at the WoodenBoat School.

Michael is very excited to announce that he will be teaching a week-long course titled “Marine and Seascape Photography, how to “see” in black and white” September 6-12th at the WoodenBoat School in Brooklin Maine.

Click here for more info and to register.

Below are a few pictures from the class last year! We had a great time exploring the beautiful coast of Maine. This class sells out quickly, so sign up now!

 

A student photographing the Blue Hill Reversing Falls

 

The WoodenBoat waterfront staff takes Michael and his students out to photograph their fleet of wooden boats.

 

Michael and his students exploring Babson Island Preserve, a beautiful island full of ferns with a lovely walking trail.

 

The students head over to Brooklin Boat Yard and Center Harbor Yacht club to photograph the boats.

 

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Did you know that Michael uses film cameras, processes his own negatives, and makes handmade silver gelatin photographs in the darkroom?

 

Learn more about Michael’s process, and keep up to date about his upcoming exhibitions here:

 

 

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Dory in the Mist was our best seller last year! Shown here as a 30×30″ fine art pigment print framed in white at the Focus Gallery, Chatham MA.

 

 

Michael reviewing proofs with Schiffer Publishing for two new books, “Sailing” and “East Coast Atlantic Beaches” to be released this spring!

 

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We are excited to share the following new images that Michael captured from the beautiful state of Maine this past year! These images and more are available for purchase, warmly toned, signed, numbered in limited edition and finished to museum standards. These unique photographs have exceptional collector value that will last for generations.

 

Maine Island

 

Around the island in search of a good story.

 

Marsh Study I

 

The wisest thing you can do is be present in the present, gratefully.
Maya Angelou

 

 

Marsh Study II

 

These two new marsh images are now showing at MassoniArt in Chestertown, Maryland.

 

   

Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

 

Michael has been photographing the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta for over twenty years. Check out our boat page to see more sailing images:

 

 

 

Maine Morning

 

Late Afternoon Sailing

 

Portland Light

 

Blue Hill Reversing Falls

 

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, were none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and the music and it’s roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

 

Naskeag Point

 

boketto: The act of gazing vacantly into the distance without a thought; simply be

 

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Did you know that we offer custom crops and custom sets? Please email us with your space requirements and we will help find the perfect sizes!

 

 

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Michael kept busy this year making photographs in his darkroom, signing fine art pigment prints, giving talks, photographing seascapes and regattas, being published in magazines and showing his work throughout the galleries that represent him! See some of the highlights below, and please follow us on Instagram.

 

 

 

Michael signing a fine art pigment print of Velsehda.

 

Michael’s work on display at Stanhope and Spencer Gallery in Rockland, Maine.

 

Michael gave a presentation to the photography students at the Kent School, CT this year!

 

 

Michael’s photograph “Off Season” on display at Sheldon Fine Art in Newport, RI.

 

 

Michael’s work was featured in N Magazine, Nantucket this summer.

 

 

Thank you for a wonderful year!

 

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Photographs by Michael Kahn are warmly toned, signed, numbered in limited edition and finished to museum standards. These unique photographs have exceptional collector value that will last for generations. If you are interested in purchasing Michael’s fine art photography, learn more about the galleries that represent his work here.

 

 

Michael Kahn’s fine art photography coffee-table books include Spirit of Sailing and Over the Dunes.

 

Visit Sheldon Fine Art, 59 America’s Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840. to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit MassoniArt, 203 High Street, Chestertown Maryland to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the True North Gallery, 31 Dock Square Kennebunkport Maine to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the Chatham Gallery, 595 Main Street Chatham MA to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin photograph and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the North Water Gallery at 27 North Water Street Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin, 30×30″ fine art pigment print and 40×40″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!
 

Visit the Cavalier Ebanks Gallery at 10 Federal Street Nantucket this summer to see these sailing and seascape images! Sizes are 14×14″ handmade silver gelatin, 19×19″ handmade silver gelatin and 30×30″ fine art pigment print, all signed and numbered in limited edition. Read more here!