A retired rabbi turned street photographer stumbled onto a Brooklyn Chabad camp trip on a ferry to Governors Island. What he found
Rob Sutherland is a commercial and landscape photographer who has shot a photo a day for sixteen years. On a family trip
Ty Nelson picked up a camera because he loved wrestling, and started shooting the action the way most beginners do. What he
Kenneth Nelson had one goal on June 26, 2004. Document the Mermaid Parade. Then the music found him first, and it never
Andre Vallgren spent a day photographing a Swedish luthier who has built guitars for Keith Richards and Ryan Adams. What he found
Andrés Gonzalez started asking questions about Portugal's wildfires in 2023 and has not stopped since. He rides hundreds of kilometers on a
Neil McShane made this photograph from a bench in his front garden in 2022, while recovering from sepsis with a Fuji X-T20
A figure appears in the mist at the Osaka Expo, caught on a Leica M3 loaded with Ilford Delta 3200. Jasper Bancroft
Mark Archibald had long kept a quarter mile gravel road in mind as a good sunset vantage point over an Amish farm
Michael Houghton and his wife fell in love with the Isle of Harris on their first visit in 2015 and have returned
Flora van Wageningen took a solo weekend to the mountains during a genuinely low point in her life, expecting nothing more than
Mark Archibald bought six acres of fallow farmland twenty five years ago and spent decades planting trees, scattering acorns on walks, and
Kayleigh Morin started as an artist frustrated that drawing could not capture light the way she wanted. Self portraits led to photographing
Leighton Phillips describes his work as Urban Still Life, drawn to the mundane, the ignored, and the visually familiar rather than anything
Flora van Wageningen picked up a camera in her late thirties, restless and bored with the city she had settled in, and
Damian Ward is drawn to woodland and solitary trees, especially in winter when the branches are bare, in a landscape he describes
Edward Boches was pulled into photography by John Filo's 1970 image of a woman kneeling over Jeffrey Miller at Kent State, the
Andrew Griffiths has been photographing since he was four or five years old, carrying a bakelite Brownie camera through the Pennine hills
Is it better to be an invisible observer or an active participant? We explore the two defining philosophies of street photography, candid vs. interactive and how both shape the monochrome experience.
One of the biggest strengths of monochrome photography is the way it emphasizes contrast. Bold blacks and brilliant whites
You don’t need a shutter to practice your craft. Discover three simple, camera free ways to sharpen your composition, master light, and transform your photographic eye.
From the viral “Andrew” car snap that defined the news cycle to Getty’s experimental thermal imaging at the Winter Olympics, this week’s roundup explores the cutting edge of photojournalism and the “wildly retro” resurgence of monochrome only cameras.
What if the goal of photography isn’t to “win,” but to simply keep the play alive? Today, we compare the craft of monochrome to the “Infinite Game” of surfing. From the unpredictability of the elements to the beauty of the “wipeout,” we explore why the best part of being a photographer is knowing that the…
From the tech hubs of Porto to the historic cobblestones of Lisbon, Pedro Belo’s journey is one of “wandering and waiting.” In this photo story he explores why he strips away the “distraction of color” to capture the pure, unscripted essence of Lisbon’s most iconic neighborhoods.
Stop taking “gray” photos. Learn how Ansel Adams used the 0-10 Zone scale to create legendary landscapes and how you can too.
Lenses aren’t just pieces of glass, they are storytellers with unique signatures. Explore the “lens as a voice” analogy and discover how to choose the right tone for your monochrome work.
In each edition of Photographer Spotlight, The Monochrome Collective sits down with a featured artist to uncover their story how they see, what inspires them, and the creative choices that define their black and white work.
Stop wasting your focus on the empty sky. Learn the “Blanket” trick to keep your foreground and background sharp, and how to use those “secret” markings on your manual lenses.
