Vailancio Rodrigues

About The Author

Vailancio Rodrigues Vailancio Rodrigues is a web ninja who bakes semantic muffins. Apart from that he is also interested in Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, Photography and knows little bit of Physics due to his college education . He is from Goa - a beautiful tropical paradise in India.

Beautiful Black and White Photography

Today, in the era of digital technology black and white often awake nostalgic feelings of the 20th century, the good old times when the television was just invented, when people read colorless printed newspapers and when people were just imagining cell phones equipped with photo cameras. But still, dozens of years later, many artists use black and white photography for artistic purposes. It is...

Today, in the era of digital technology black and white often awake nostalgic feelings of the 20th century, the good old times when the television was just invented, when people read colorless printed newspapers and when people were just imagining cell phones equipped with photo cameras. But still, dozens of years later, many artists still use black and white photography for artistic purposes. It is one of the best and cheapest types of photography for the beginners to test their creativity. This showcase is a tribute to this often forgotten and underrated art of photography.

In this post we present beautiful examples of black and white photography — an update to previously featured showcase of black and white photography. The showcase below focuses more on art and creative mind of photographers. Of course, it's not the ultimate collection. There were many more which we could not cover in a single post. All the photographs are linked to photographer’s website. Please do visit their sites to explore the skills and craft of these artists.

Beautiful Examples of Black and White Photography

Milo Alterio

Emir Ozsahin

danielsantiagosalguero

Philipp Klinger

Simon Pais-Thomas

Aneta Kowalczyk

Running Nowhere
by Julien Legrand

MustafaDedeogLu

Elliott Erwitt

MisterKey

Andrey Vahrushew

Let it Snow
by WWWest

Codrin Lupei

Lucian Olteanu

Drooper

Stefano Orazzini

LimpidD

latoday

Screenshot

onabibano

soleildame

Txema Rodriguez

Paused in Motion
by Dusty Wall

Yanire

Yanire

borissov

Window of Happiness
by Monique

Damien Vassart

Nick

navid j

strømbërg

Freedom
by Wolfram Schubert

softspokenmc

Mikael Stålsäter

Remembrance
by Zivko Risteski

raaych1

RamonaG

etrusia_uk

Claudio.Ar

Jenna Herman

David J. Nightingale

lolla_sig

Agnès Lapin

gullevek

Jordi Troguet

cocoip

bennipi

wazari

Majordomo

Iris

Noisy Paradise

Catriona67

gilad

Keith Foster

opportunistatlarge

Mariusz Jankowski

Tim Corbeel

Amsterdamned

tainted dream

I See a Darkness
by Harald Bildner

Love Birds
by b-photo

Max

One Shoot
by fotouczniak

FilipO

tomaskaspar

Ben Heine

Unknown

Last Click

Unknown

Should SM publish more photography showcases?


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