Ratcliffe Power Station DVD In the opaque windows—arguably a

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Ratcliffe Power Station DVD In the opaque windows—arguably aMichael 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