If you are already a keen mono shooter, you will have your favourite workers however, if you’re finding your way in the medium and need inspiration, now’s the time to get on the internet or to a bookshop. Google the names if they are unfamiliar to you. Their work continues to inspire me and no doubt many others. I grew up loving and being inspired by the work of many legends of photography including Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Duane Michals, Arnold Newman, Irving Penn and Sebastião Salgado, to name my magnificent seven. Not only that, but the pictures I saw in magazines and books that fired my imagination were in black & white. Going monochrome was the obvious route because as a schoolkid, it was the only affordable one. When I embarked on my photography journey, there was only film with the choice of colour print, colour slide or black & white. In very contrasty light an exposure bracket of several frames can be merged in software to produce a fully toned image.
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