My fascination for monochromatic images are beyond what my mind can comprehend, so I try to deliver it through my photographs. If I am lucky, my photographs surprise me. It is not that I do not think of composition and all that technical stuff, but I think I am more of a sentimental shooter. I don't know if such thing exist, but I'd like to label myself as one.
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” ― Ted Grant
“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.” ― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.” ― Paul Outerbridge
Now let me share to you the rest of the photographs I was able to capture in that one fateful afternoon in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Enjoy!
“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” ― Vikrmn, 10 Alone
“Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast.” ― Leonard Nimoy
