black & white

This body of abstract work is a subversive take on black and white photography. There is, in fact, a range of colors available in these images. While they do basically conform to a similar palette, each image shows a lack of formality. What really is it? Why are we looking at it? The great formalist masters of photography who used large format black and white film, such as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, etc. showed us that making art with photography was possible using just the limited colors of black and white. They were exacting and meticulous in their framing and technique. This series might be a flippant response to such formal methods, taken with an iPhone, interrogating the concept of “art photography”. Naming this series “Black & White” aims to challenge our thinking, to show that there are many ways to accomplish photography, abstraction, and use of composition. Through the images, this duality breaks open to betray a wider spectrum of possibility.