A million grey areas..

There’s a fairly famous quote out there, ‘Life’s not all black and white, it’s a million grey areas’

Now this quote speaks to me in the world of photography. I’m a profound lover of black and white images, although I mostly dabble in colour photography and portraits, monochrome images have a special meaning to me in the way of art. I’d have a whole house full of huge black and white prints if it was up to me.

Now why Black and white? Well it’s simple, I enjoy the ‘million grey areas’, the layers of an image really come to life when you take the distraction of colour out of the picture, pure contrast, depth, shadows and highlights, in a way it’s a way of stripping an image to a nakedness that shows every vulnerable details it contains, and to me, it’s art. Here’s a couple of my own personal images from my black and white archive.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!