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Mastering Black and White Portraiture: 32 Soulful Portraits That Teach You to Shoot Like a Pro

There’s something wildly powerful about black and white portraiture. Strip away the noise of color, and suddenly every wrinkle, shadow, stare, and tiny human emotion hits different...

black and white

Toronto. Around the time we entered the 20th century, much of camera manufacture changed from wood to metal. Cameras were all black or black with chrome or nickel trim (perhaps glo...

Make Mine Black and White: Learning to Convert to Digital When All My World Was Film

I am, by training and inclination, a black and white photographer. My very first exposure to black and white photography, as an artful medium, was a photograph that I saw when I wa...

Light, Shadow, Soul: 33 Award-Winning Black and White Photos Celebrated in 2026

Black and white photography hits different. No flashy colors, no distractions, just pure emotion, killer composition, and moments that punch you right in the chest. These award-win...

How to Know When a Portrait Belongs in Black and White

Shooting portraits in black and white is a genuine creative decision, not just a stylistic default. The difference between a black and white image that works and one that falls fla...

Through the Silent Streets: 30 Timeless Black and White Street Photos by Fernando Coelho

There’s something wildly hypnotic about black and white street photography when it’s done right. No flashy colors. No distractions. Just pure emotion, light, shadow, and those blin...

Finding Beauty in Simplicity: 33 Poetic Black and White Photos by Alan Schaller

Have you ever looked at a photograph and felt like it was saying something without using a single word? That’s exactly what happens when you step into the world of Alan Schaller. H...

Simple Calm

As They Roll By

Shadows and Silence: 30 Fine Art Black and White Photos by Renato D’Agostin

Imagine strolling through a city at dawn, when the streets lie silent and the gentle morning light gives every shadow a story of its own. That’s the atmosphere captured by Renato D...

How to make a photo black and white in Kittl

A weak product photo can hide behind color for a while. Take the color away, and the truth shows up quickly. Black and white strips an image down to the parts that can’t coast on a...

Blackfoot Thunder

The new station escalator in black and white

A little bit ago I showed the first of my photos from the new Metro Tunnel. I showed in colour, but I also did it in black and white. This is the image.

the autochrome and the diascope

Toronto. The early colour processes were usually additive and as such incredibly slow. In to the mid last century the alternative was to take a good B&W portrait and colour it...

Enrique Murciano: 500px Photographer Spotlight

Enrique Murciano believes that photography is inherently simple. For him, the art form is not about complex gear or heavy manipulation, but rather the patience required to wait for...

This 40-Year-Old Camera Still Shoots Stunning Black-and-White Landscapes

The Olympus XA2 is a 35mm clamshell camera from the mid-1980s with exactly three focus positions and zero manual exposure control. That sounds like a recipe for frustration, but St...

Ilford HP5, a 4x5 Camera, and a Ruined Victorian Quarry in North Wales

Shooting large format film in an abandoned Welsh slate quarry sounds like a niche pursuit, but the images that come out of locations like this are unlike anything a modern digital...

The Meeting At the T

The Front Rolls In

The Photographs that Shaped the Black Arts Movement in the Mid-20th Century

'Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985' features works by more than 100 artists, journalists, organizers, and more. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Bec...

Grey Sea, Grey Sky

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Film Friday: Ilford Delta 100 Perfectly Blends Contrast and Tonality

When we first conceived of our Film Friday series, we had a few different motives in mind. The first was that we had long noticed that some black and white films were more popular...

There’s a Little Left

The monochrome version of a structure to the Westgate Tunnel

A few weeks ago I showed the colour version of this image and today I want to show you the black and white image I did of it. If you want to compare you can […]