Black and White: How I See It

During my early years in photography, I was committed to the notion that if I could master the black and white idiom, it would enhance my proficiency and technique with respect to producing images in color. Black and white images have a timeless quality that works well for fine art style purposes. To this end, I believed that an understanding of the greyscale would better inform my ability to expose work both in color and black and white more accurately and enhance my primary style choice of shooting images more abstractly.

This Gallery provides some samples of my early-to-mid period (mid-70’s to mid-90’s) work in black and white. I chose subjects of interest randomly. There was no intention of creating specific themes or points of view. I simply wanted to understand how to expose black and white film accurately in a variety of lighting situations and contexts. Over the years, my work in color photography has benefitted from these efforts.