The beauty of monochrome: Black + White Photographer of the Year 2018 winners and finalists

The romance of Parisian streets in black and white photographs of a photographer in love with this city

Shop windows, an embankment, sheets on clotheslines, hidden faces, merry-go-rounds, people who have fallen asleep on the streets - in the lens of a photographer a whole life. Isis Biedermanas used to say about Paris in his photographs: “This is not modern Paris and not old, but just mine.” The city that could fall in love with itself

Philosophical black and white landscapes from a Canadian photographer

Derek Toye is a photographer from Ontario, Canada, author of a series of black and white photographs, in which an atmosphere of calm and desolation reigns. Most often, in the frame you can see lonely trees, roads that snake away beyond the horizon, or houses that look abandoned. Contemplation, mystery and meditativeness are what characterizes the work of Derek Toje in general

Faces, looking at which the heart contracts: Photographer-retoucher painted black and white pictures of prisoners of Auschwitz

According to the most conservative estimates, from 1940 to 1945, 1.1 million people died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This is more than a million destinies, each of which is worthy of a separate story. So that we, the descendants, can more sharply feel the horror of those events, photographer Marina Amaral from Brazil, in collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, gives color to the preserved black and white photographs of concentration camp prisoners

White on white. Monochrome photography by Anil Akkus

Outside the window is white white! But it was not snow covered, and not poplar fluff, and even feathers from the pillow covered everything around in an even layer. These are the impressions from the unusual photography of a young Turkish photographer named Anil Akkus. His favorite color is white, which is why you will see other shades in the photographs of this author in exceptional cases, and only to shade one white object from another, and both objects from the background. They say that a black cat cannot be found in a dark room. Welcome to sv

Black and white friendship of a girl with a cat by photographer Andy Prokh

Photographer Andy Prokh definitely loves cats. But he loves his daughter Katherine even more. It was these feelings that prompted him to create a collection of photographs "Friendship of a girl with a cat." A whole scenario from the life of a child and an animal unfolds on them. By the way, the cat's name is longer than that of the girl - LiLu Royal Blue Lada. What is it for?