Photography, for me, has been an instrument to push myself out of my comfort zone in the past few years.

Starting it at an early age, you grow used to your surroundings: find your go‑to camera, occasionally buy new lenses, and keep taking pictures anywhere you go because it’s digital and why not (!). As I started finding my own style and way, I realized I was taking too many pictures and not even going back and looking at all of them. My mirrorless camera, the Fuji XT‑3, had become a literal extension of my hand and I simply loved it ‑ still one of the best cameras I ever used. But, it had also become a burden to me. I wanted to slow down my process, which is why I eventually decided to sell it and switch completely to film. Luckily it was still cheap back then :)

In the last few months of 2022, I had another of these moments, where I was craving for a change. I realized I had barely been shooting in B&W, and decided that I wanted to spend the last few months of 2022 only shooting in B&W. This was a timely move as Kodak Portra prices were getting a bit out of hand as well!

I’ve come to really love shooting B&W over the past few months, which is why I kept loading it in my camera and decided that a few months were just not enough. I’ve seen how complex, yet simplistic, it is to visualize a picture in the grey scale before even shooting it. Going back and looking at the masters of their craft, Elliott Erwitt, Ansel Adams or Vivian Maier, I have seen that a monochromatic image truly conveys the personality of the artist. It conveys tone, more than colors; there is no nice hues of the day to rely on. This has been one of the main reasons that keeps drawing me into taking B&W pictures ‑ truly showing how I see the world without any distractions.

Here, I’ll be sharing my work in B&W film for the next 365 days.