Black & White Photography

For me, black and white is the fastest way I know to find out whether I actually saw something. A monochrome frame only holds what I made of the scene, and if I made nothing of it, there isn't much there to look at.

It started on a photowalk in December 2024. I had decided before I set out that I would shoot only in black and white that day, and somewhere on that walk I realised it was my calling. I shoot black and white in the camera itself, with no film simulation, and process the raw files afterwards.

What I look for is a contrast of light and shadow, and then texture and tones. When all of that lines up inside a good frame, I shoot. Most of what I photograph is events, portraits, the street, landscapes and architecture.

I've thrown away a lot more than I've kept, about one or two frames in a hundred stay, so what's here is only the photographs that stayed, and after them whatever I've written about taking them. I shoot for myself first and share the results with friends and family.