Black and White Photography Stories

David Clark retired three years ago and bought his first serious camera. Since then he has been making up for lost time. A week in Havana on a portrait workshop led by legendary photographer Peter Turnley changed how he thinks about photographing people. Here is the story.

For the past several months Joe Moro has been returning two or three times a week to the same corner in Melbourne. The same stretch of footpath. The same light. The same cast of strangers who are slowly becoming familiar. This is what it looks like when a photographer decides to go deep instead of wide.

Every December in the Moldavian region of Romania, men wrap themselves in real bear skins and march through the streets to the sound of drums. Armin traveled from Germany to document it. He did not expect to find himself there too.

Oxford, Mississippi is a town in the middle of remaking itself. Dason Pettit has spent years watching it happen, and somewhere along the way realized the project was also about him.

Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show up.

For over a century, Milwaukeeans have started their new year the hard way. André Saint Louis has spent the last four years documenting the chaos, the cold, and the characters who keep coming back.

There is a particular kind of photograph that does not reveal itself immediately. You make it, file it away, move on. Years pass. Then one day you return to it and something has changed, not in the image, but in you. Flora van Wageningen returned to her Faroe Islands photographs seven years after making them. In black and white, they told a different story.

Ten days. Ten images. One singular pursuit of light. This series explores the quiet drama of Mexico’s streets and the power of finding the "main character" within the shadows.

In a frozen power station on the Baltic Sea, Bernhard Brause and his partner Brigitte capture a timeless story of light, shadow, and industrial isolation.

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.