![]() A lot of my work involves a sense of timelessness and I believe black and white film encompasses that feeling. As a visual explorer, I am always learning and studying, usually, through collecting photo books and prints I find new inspiration and new ways of seeing. I found I was able to develop my skill and technique really quickly and naturally, I’m red green color blind so black and white film is much more versatile for me and lends itself well to my work. For him, black and white photography possesses a sense of timelessness, which is essential to his work. “A lot of my work involves a sense of timelessness and I believe black and white film encompasses that feeling.”īen discovered that he has a natural affinity to black and white photography. My decision to shoot in black and white never changed my style as a photographer, in fact it allowed it to have a clearer voice and point of view in my photographs as with the absence of color the subject of the image is the focus of attention. I still process and develop myself as it gives me total control over how my film comes out as I can work with the exact developer needed to bring out the contrast that is desired. I found the whole photographic process, from shooting to developing and printing to be an incredible creative output. I had a really great instructor there and it was my first time working in a darkroom. I started shooting with black and white film seventeen years ago back when I was in high school. He’s still exploring with his camera and is nowadays equipped with his treasured Leica rangefinders, which are the perfect fit for his shooting style.He is currently working on several projects at the moment that are in the final stages of being completed, one of which he is most excited about is a series based on a rodeo. Philadelphia based photographer Ben MacMaster grew up around film photography and you could always find him traveling and shooting film. Regarding the future of B&W film photography, I'm very uncertain of what will happen so I take this as a good reason to concentrate on the present moment. Such photographs are also in my grandmother’s photo archive and this serves as true evidence that the craft of B&W photography is rooted in the past. I love how in many family photo collections you can find old black and white hand prints that have stood the test of time and survived from the beginning or middle of the twentieth century. I then print my scanned negatives in the lab once a month but in the future, my dream is to do my own hand prints. I’ve been developing my own film at home for the last three years and I like this process because I have complete control over the result of the negatives and I get to see the final product in a much shorter time. I seriously considered finding my style in color but during a few years of experimenting with color film I completely lost interest in it. It was a time of endless searching, searching for myself, my taste. In the past I went through a period of working with color photography, but now I look back on it as a nightmare. She also plans to soon make her own handmade prints. When asked if she considered shooting color photography, Vika loves that she has complete control over the result of the negatives. “I’ve never felt that shooting in black and white has ever limited my photography, on the contrary, it makes it possible to give a photograph a secret.” ![]() I’ve never felt that shooting in black and white has ever limited my photography, on the contrary, it makes it possible to give a photograph a secret. I found it’s much easier to focus on such things with the absence of color. I started using black and white film, as well as color in my first ever year of shooting film and if I’m honest, there wasn’t too much thought behind it! My attention turned to shooting only in B&W as I found it not only changed my style as a photographer, but also has changed my way of thinking and my way of seeing the world around me.When I shoot, I mostly focus my attention on the lighthing, on the human body, the emotions, on the lines, on the texture of the skin, on contrasts, on my feelings. After testing countless cameras she’s settled on a Pentax 6x7 and Pentax ME and at present, she is working on two different upcoming projects, one about strangers in her neighborhood and one documenting her growing son. While studying journalism at university her course encorporated the basics of developing film and printing photographs which helped to enrich her craft. On New Year’s Eve in 2003, she was gifted a simple Soviet Zenit Camera and from there, her passion for film photography has flourished. Photographer Vika Bykovskaya was born in a small town of Tuapse on the Black Sea and now lives and works in St.
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