If you’ve looked at my website you’ll see that I really love monochrome photography.
This isn’t anything new to me, black and white is where I started all those years ago as a kid, developing Ilford HP5 and FP4 films and printing images on an old enlarger up in my parent’s loft.
Is monochrome photography still relevant in this day and age? I believe it is.
There’s something special with monochrome, a drama, a graphic quality. An image in monochrome has to have great composition because it hasn’t got colour to carry it and it needs to contain emotion to work well.
Colour photography is great and I’ll always take colour images for commercial purposes and where colour it’s needed. But, when I really want to express myself and have the time to go into that deep creative concentration zone, monochrome is the medium I choose.
I’ve been looking through my cuttings archive and found this nice spread that Pure Cheshire Magazine did of my black and white work back in 2007. Thank you, Louise Taylor, the editor at the time, for going against the grain and publishing a monochrome spread.
Do you like using mono images? Let me know what you think.
