Black & White Magazine (2024)

29/11/2023

Get your work seen in Black & White magazine, like Tyler Vance’s “Mother and Bride” shown here. Submissions to our 2024 Portfolio Contest accepted through January 14. The top 24 entrants will have Spotlight features in regular issues in 2024-25. (bandwmag.com/contests)

28/11/2023

Also featured in the February 2024 issue: James Whitlow Delano's still relevant photo essay on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Japanese government's decision in August 2023 to release treated radioactive waste from the plant into the sea sparked widespread protest in Japan and Korea. (bandwmag.com)

25/11/2023

As the effects of climate change on the planet’s oceans become more profound, the efforts of photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier, co-founders of the ocean conservancy SeaLegacy, take on greater urgency. The couple apply their gift for visual storytelling to educate and advocate on behalf the world’s most important ecosystem.

20/11/2023

"Where are you now" is the title of this image by Lithuanian photographer Mindaugas Gabrenas, featured in our February 2024 issue. "I am fascinated by the ambiguous nature of photography, by its elusive implications, and the possibility of multiple interpretations," he says. (bandwmag.com/contests)

19/11/2023

Family stories animate the work of photographer Katherine Turczan, born in the US to Ukrainian parents. Between 1991 and 2008, she made numerous trips to Ukraine to document her family’s homeland during a period of calm and stability prior to the Russian invasion in 2022. Her work is featured in our February 2024 issue. (bandwmag.com/contests)

17/11/2023

For many years, native-born Columbian Juan Cristobal Cobo told stories as a cinematographer for films and documentaries , but when he felt he was losing touch with telling his own stories, he turned to still photography. His book, La Luz Opaca, documents the faded glory and resilient spirit of Bogota’s main thoroughfare in street portraits of astonishing power, empathy and insight. See the exclusive feature in the February 2024 issue of Black & White, on newsstands November 21! (bandwmag.com)

15/11/2023

Also featured in the February 2024 issue is Spotlight winner Michael Potts’ evocative series of underwater swimmers titled “Dreamtime,” which is by turns peaceful, chaotic, balanced, abstract and liberating. On sale November 21. (bandwmag.com)

14/11/2023

Here’s a sneak peek inside our February 2024 issue, on sale Nov. 21. Rashod Taylor’s series "Little Black Boy" explores themes of race, culture, identity and family in his ongoing documentation of his son. (bandwmag.com)

13/11/2023

Our February 2024 issue goes on sale November 21! Pick up a copy for in-depth articles on Rashod Taylor, Juan Cristobal Cobo, Katherine Turczan, James Whitlow Delano, Paul Nicklen & Cristina Mittermeier, Spotlight features, Pinhole/Plastic Camera winners, and much more. (bandwmag.com)

22/10/2023

Today’s image, “Untitled #10, San Mateo, CA, 2020,” by Bijan Mottahedeh, was created with long/multiple exposures and experimental tone curve settings. It was a Digital Manipulation contest winner in 2021. Current contest open through Oct. 31. (bandwmag.com/contests)

21/10/2023

Samuel Brown contributed to our 2018 Vintage Images contest with this 1970s-era photograph titled "Love of Country, Wall Street, New York City." (bandwmag.com/contests)

18/10/2023

“Waiting” is the title of this lith print by Katarzyna Derda (katarzynaderda.com). Taken from her Paper Dreams series, it was a winning entry in one of our Alternative Darkroom Processes contests. Submissions for the current contest accepted through October 31. (bandwmag.com/contests)

15/10/2023

Our Vintage Images contest provides another opportunity to see your work in Black & White. Here’s Rick Droz’s 1982 “Glue Sniffers on Shankill Rd., Belfast, Northern Ireland,” a winning entry from a past contest. Submissions for this competition accepted through October 31 at: bandwmagcom/contests.

11/10/2023

Another previous Alternative Digital Processes contest winner is Peter Zarkob’s surreal beach image in the Spanish port city Huelva, achieved with digital filters and blending. Submissions for the 2024 contest accepted through October 31. Information at: bandwmag.com/contests.

10/10/2023

CONTEST NOTICE: David Lancaster's wet plate collodion image "Man with Mask, Columbia, MO, USA, 2022" was a winning entry in our 2023 Alternative Processes contest. Submissions for the 2024 contest accepted through October 31. (bandwmag.com/contests)

09/10/2023

Black & White is currently accepting submissions to our Looking Back–Looking Forward contests (VINTAGE, ALT-DARKROOM, ALT-DIGITAL, PINHOLE) through October 31. Winners appear in regular issues of our magazine in special contest sections. Shown here is "My Curves" by Alternative Digital Processes winner Leanne Trivett S. Compete info at: bandwmag.com/contests

09/10/2023

From the Archvies: This image, "Vidal's Cain, Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France" was included in our April 2015 feature on Michael Kenna, who told our writer Joel Meadows: "I enjoy the patina of age, the passage of time, the footprints, traces and memories left in the landscape." (michaelkenna.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

06/10/2023

Judy Dater is one of America’s foremost figurative and portrait photographers, one who fearlessly challenges outmoded conceptions and judgments about the female body. Her imagery explores and celebrates feminism, self-identity, and a sensuous connection with nature. Featured in our June 2022 issue. (judydater.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

05/10/2023

From the April 2022 issue: In 2009, Jason Langer made the first of multiple photographic trips to Berlin to try and “remember, confront and unwind my attitudes about Germans, Germany, Berlin, and my Jewish inheritance.” The resulting body of work is an artfully composed, psychologically probing portrait of the German capital, one that evokes the Weimar era, the twelve-year period under N**i rule, and the postwar era inclusive of present-day Germany. Focusing on surviving architectural remnants of the past and the faces of contemporary Berliners, Langer’s opus is a triumph of subjective documentary. (jasonanger.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

03/10/2023

From the Archives: Rebecca Moseman’s series on the Mississippi Delta and its residents, featured in our Jan. 2023 issue, resonate with a deep sense of place and lived experience. Her images show the resilience and pride of those who call the region home, despite its social, economic and spiritual challenges. (mosemanstudios.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

02/10/2023

From the Archives: Rocky Schenck, featured in the April 2022 issue, offers dark, dreamlike visions inspired by silent film era directors and cinematographers. His images beckon with disorienting yet beguiling visual narratives. (rockyschenck.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

01/10/2023

From the Archives: January 2023 issue — Native Glaswegian Simon Murphy’s widely acclaimed street portrait series on the Govanhill section of Glasgow offers a deeply empathetic and illuminating look at this vibrant and ethnically diverse community. A former photographer for the city’s The Herald newspaper, Murphy doesn’t impose a subjective viewpoint on his subjects, but allows them to express their sense of self in a true collaborative effort. (instagram.com/smurph77) (bandwmag.com/contests)

30/09/2023

From the Archives: Sage Sohier (sagesohier.com) is renowned for her photographs of people in context of their natural environments, achieved through a mutual if undeclared trust. Cognizant of the openness that strangers have always offered her, she responds with revealing yet nonjudgmental images of unique complexity, empathy, and presence. (bandwmag.com/contests)

29/09/2023

“Le Sens, Braine l'alleud, Brabant, Belgium” is the title of this wet-collodion process photograph by Florence D’elle, one of the winning entries in our 2022 Alternative Processes contest. There’s still time to submit to our 2024 contest at: bandwmag.com/contests

20/09/2023

"Up in the Clouds, Transalpina, Romania" is the title of this photograph by Sorin Costache, one of the winning entries in our Single Image Contest that was featured in our June 2023 issue. Costache grew up in Bucharest, and retraced his family memories during a family vacation in 2019. (sorincostachephotography.com) (bandwmag.com/contests)

19/09/2023

Also featured in the April 2023 issue is Hank O’Neal (hankoneal.com), who has one heck of an impressive CV: jazz connoisseur, record producer, entrepreneur, raconteur and photographer extraordinaire specializing in celebrity and artist portraiture. Founder of the independent jazz label Chiaroscuro Records, he has known, befriended and recorded countless jazz icons. With more than 20 books of his photographs, many of them classics, O’Neal is still going strong in his eighth decade. Here’s his great photo of legendary jazz pianist Joe Turner, taken in New York City in 1978. (bandwmag.com)

19/09/2023

Here’s a peek back at our April 2023 issue, which featured work by the wonderful Meryl Meisler. (merylmeisler.com) It’s hard to think of another photographer with a body of work as effortlessly and organically idiosyncratic, outré, off-the-wall, outrageous, kinky, surreal, twisted, manic, and yet instantly relatable and universal as this native New Yorker. Meisler made her name with indelible Seventies photographs of discos, punk clubs, celebrities, friends and members of her own uninhibited and quirky family. Seen here is the photo “The Way We Were, The Mystery Club, North Woodmere, NY, January 1979.” (bandwmag.com)

26/08/2023

From the Archives: Today’s image is a fantastic street portrait by Barbara Ramos, who we featured in the October 2022 issue. Ramos documented the gritty streets of San Francisco in the 1970s with a power and poetry that put her in the company of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Then she put her negatives away for decades before emerging several years ago with new work that’s every bit as powerful as her earlier work. (bandwmag.com)

17/08/2023

One of our most popular recurring departments presents recollections from former assistants to Ansel Adams who went on to have prominent careers of their own. We call it All the King’s Men or All the King’s Women, depending on the individual. In the October 2024 issue we featured Mary Alinder, whose husband, Jim Alinder, is another notable fine art photographer. Mary had an especially warm connection with the legendary Adams and his wife, Virginia. Mary greatly appreciated Adams’ non-sexist attitude. “He treated me with respect at all times,” she says. “He listened to me, and he didn’t listen to a lot of people. He always interacted so generously with me, and was basically a very humble man.” (bandwag.com)

14/08/2023

From the archives, April 2022 issue: A decade before W. Eugene Smith produced his famous photo essay, Japanese photojournalist Shisei Kuwabara (kuwabarashisei.com) documented the effects of mercury poisoning on the populace of Minamata. Kuwabara’s 1965 book Minamata Disease brought the subject to Smith’s attention, and Kuwabara provided vital assistance that enabled Smith to be able to photograph there. (bandwmag.com/contests)

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