Between 2 Worlds
This unique series of images combines my 30 years as a black and white photographer with more recent ventures into color digital photography. Black and white photography is generally more compositionally based, and more subtle in its use of light and tone. Color digital work is more vibrant, more “real world”, at times superior for narrative work. I often feel that I am caught between these 2 different ways of seeing the world. These images combine both elements, and while each image may work as either a color or BW image these in-between prints are superior artistically to either one. I also find that these images have an optical illusion effect where the brain sometimes fills in color details while viewing. On another level, as the primary paradigm in photography, particularly in the fine art world, has evolved from black and white to color image making following developments in technology, the use of black and white image making I believe is becoming a convention, in the same way that depth of field is used now not only in photography but in painting. These in-between prints that combine black & white and color, as well as sometimes de-saturating or saturating the color imagery, become another convention, another method of using the mechanical tools of photography to further artistic expression