I often get asked why I don’t photograph in black and white, as though it’s a more prestigious or respected form, colour by inference more common or prosaic. In this digital age, with no processing costs or limits on treatment, black and white often seems restrictive, a denial of the ocular carnival of life; at worst an artifice, a way to give average images an air. Thailand is a geographic manifestation of that dichotomy. Turn up your nose at this visual feast to your own impoverishment.
I often get asked why I don’t photograph in black and white, as though it’s a more prestigious or respected form, colour by inference more common or prosaic. In this digital age, with no processing costs or limits on treatment, black and white often seems restrictive, a denial of the ocular carnival of life; at worst an artifice, a way to give average images an air. Thailand is a geographic manifestation of that dichotomy. Turn up your nose at this visual feast to your own impoverishment.
Thailand