Photography Tutorial · 2020-08-30

The Charm of Grayscale — Recommending 3 Black-and-White Photographers Worth Following

Thomas Chu Photo

Black-and-white photography strips away the world's colorful brilliance, yet retains the most wonderful light, shadow, texture, and grayscale, presenting the purest and most vivid frames.

In this edition's photographer appreciation and recommendation segment, I've selected 3 very famous black-and-white photographers from Instagram. Everyone can appreciate black-and-white photography's unique visual language from their works.

Hengki Koentjoro

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Hengki is a black-and-white photographer from Indonesia and one of Hasselblad's brand ambassadors.

His works have rich, delicate tones, and his rendering of light and shadow is extremely pictorial and immersive, making viewers feel sacred and serene.

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Alan Schaller

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Alan Schaller is from London, UK. He's a black-and-white photographer whose main creative subject is street photography, and one of Leica's brand ambassadors.

His works combine brilliant moments, refined composition, and dynamic frames. He's very skilled at using street structures and lines to construct frames, and using light to set off the fascinating contrast between black and white. Though his photos have only grayscale, they're full of spatial and depth sense.

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Michael Kenna

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Michael Kenna should be a photographer everyone knows well. His works are minimalist yet profound, full of Eastern Zen aesthetics.

Even the most ordinary subjects, like trees, are vividly rendered in his black-and-white depiction, with a unique style.

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"Dialogue with Landscape Photography Masters | Ryan Dyar: Artistic Creation Should Be Free"

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"Dialogue with Landscape Photography Masters | Nicholas Roemmelt: Recording Expeditions with Photography"

"Can You Shoot Masterpieces in Nearby Parks? This Photographer Martin Podt May Inspire You!"

If you want to learn about more photographers of various styles,

you can visit my Instagram homepage @thomaschuphoto and check my follow list~

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All images used in this article are cited from the photographers' homepages

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