Black and White
Black and White
When I am out on location, get back to base (home), and view my selection of images, I often ask myself why black and white when you can photograph in colour?
The answer is simple: the absence of colour takes you back to the basics; it blends mood, light, contrast, drama, and, of course, visual appeal.
Having a dialogue with pixels emboldens a measured composure from seeing to be seen. It invites debate through two parallelisms, thereby departing from tangibility. People inspect black-and-white imagery with a sense of hypermnesia, the powers of recollection that, by some means or other, betake oneself back in time.
There is a rawness that sometimes colour can’t impersonate: a sense of disposition, romance, jamboree, chiselled into the creative thought, creating a sense of mystique.
In parallel with black-and-white photography, exiguous is actually complementary every now and then.
