Oxford Dictionary Definition
inspiration
1. the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.
Featured Artist
George Digalakis
George Digalakis is an award winning Fine Art Photographer based in Athens, Greece. His passion for black and white minimalistic images convey the beauty of nature.
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Eddy Verloes
Eddy Verloes, a Belgian photographer, who has won numerous awards for his literary symbolic photography.He skillfully weaves visual narratives that blend realism and surrealism, capturing the essence of interiors, landscapes, and urban life.
Brief History of the first black & white image
View from
the Window at Le Gras
In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore exposed a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours and captured an image that would have seismic permutations. Entitled View from the Window at Le Gras, it is believed to be the first photograph ever captured, marking the inception of a medium that would dramatically impact the world at large.
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Dennis Stock
Stock is one of the most prolific photographers of the 20th Century. He is best known for his work with actor James Dean.
The majority of Dean's most iconic photographs were produced by Stock, including the famous image of the young star trudging through Times Square in the rain.
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Daido Moriyama
Daido Moriyama is a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational, black-and-white images depicting the contrast of traditional values and modern society in postwar Japan.
Quote
Paul
Outerbridge
"One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state."
Featured Artist
Lee Jeffries
A self-taught photographer who started out taking pictures of stock in a bike shop, his epiphany came in April 2008 when, on the eve of running the London Marathon, he snatched a long-lens image of a homeless girl huddling in a doorway, and felt compelled to apologize to her when she called him out for it. Their resulting conversation changed not only his approach to photography; it changed his life.
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Alan Schaller
His work is often abstract and incorporates elements of surrealism, geometry, high contrast and the realities and diversities of human life.
Quote
Robert
Frank
"Black and white are the colours of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
Featured Artist
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna’s mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures.
Featured Artist
Selaru Ovidiu
In Ovidiu's own words: "I like saying that beauty in photography cannot be limited by words. I do not narrow down my interests into strictly portrait or landscape niches, I just seek new perspectives, I play with angles and architectural geometry of space around me.
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