WePhoto B&W Vol. 8 by Mario Buncuga

WEPHOTO B&W 2021 - VOL 8 Dear all, I am very proud to present this collection of some of the best works in Black and White under our banner that is fondly called - The Series. Since 2014, when WePhoto Group was founded, we have come all this long out of our sheer passion for photography. Over the time, thanks to the continuous help and support of some of our likeminded colleagues - who the group draws its strength from - that today we have created multiple platforms and thematic pages to represent the various genres in photography. Today WePhoto group has the widest presence across Facebook representing almost every possible genre of photography. As of date there are 12 thematic pages, with picture boards on Pinterest, a dedicated web portal and more than 100 books published on issuu.com. The volume will also be published on Apple Books store. This annual collection called - The Series - is made of eBooks each belonging to a specific photographic genre, and includes the artwork of several great authors from Italy and abroad. The one in your hands is the eighth thematic book dedicated to Black & White Photography. Apart from the e-versions these publications are available in the form of coffee table books as well Editorial Board Mario Bunčuga: Editor & Art Director Germana De Chellis: Chief Graphic Designer Pankaj Anand: Review Associate Priyanka Agrawal: Review Associate

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We are very excited and happy to feature these beautiful images and most of all, to be able to share them with a wide span of people of common interests Please spread a word around by sharing, and recommend to as many as you can to visit these eBooks from our webpages and links given ahead. Do leave your positive feedback on the eStores if you care. This is how you may help us grow and share our passion for photography! In this Book you can also find the links to our Facebook Group - WePhoto. Come and join the group, invite your friends to share their work in there and enjoy some of the best images from around the world.

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Gratitude Special thanks to Germana De Chellis, Chief of WePhoto Black & White Page, who helped me select the images, contact the authors and collect material from them. She is always occupied coordinating things in the back office. Thanks to all the authors who have made this volume such a great collection with their valuable contributions. I also wish to thank Germana De Chellis for her impeccable layout and cover designs and to Pankaj Anand and Priyanka Agrawal, who ensure meticulous translations, proofreading of drafts, and content development. I owe my thanks to our admin colleagues too, who are constantly managing and taking care of the group as well as its 12 thematic pages and online magazines and are ardently bringing forth the best photographers from across the globe. I have no words to express my gratitude to the wonderful work they do every day with great passion and dedication. WePhoto Network the Founder Mario Bunčuga

The Authors

Adolfo Carli

Amit Vakil

Leonardo Ricci

Fabrizio Fontana

Antonio Sanchez Marcos

Germana De Chellis

Roberto Rampinelli

Copyright & Disclaimer All rights are reserved to WePhoto and Mario Bunčuga for this entire eBook and to each author for their individual photographs as included in their related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as a whole. The images and text are exclusive property of the authors, the use of which is at their discretion, if being contacted beforehand personally. You may also order a print version coffee table book from our link through Peecho online print service. Any misuse or otherwise will be prosecuted through the prevalent rules on the subject of copyright.

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Black & White Introduction Black and White (B&W) Photography belongs to an altogether different era and the interesting part is that the art form has not only survived all this long, it is thriving with innovations taking place every next time. Seems as if man is finding it difficult to come out of its spell. B&W comes with a rich heritage in the form of works of Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston etc, who created masterpieces out of the constraints of equipment, tools and above all - color. But absence of the latter evidently came to their advantage and helped them see what would not be visible in a colored world. Colors dominate frame, its aspects and elements; and so a B&W photographer will rather focus on the potentials of placement, shape, pattern, texture, tonal contrast and above all flow and quality of light. B&W photography is way beyond mere conversion of a color photo to grayscale. It is about creation of fine art objects from the scene around us. B&W is inspiring, ethereal and will remain forever.

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ADOLFO CARLI Milano, Italia

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I've traveled around the world for the past 48 years and inevitably been a great fan of photography. The photos I usually shoot belong to photojournalism, quite obviously known as street-photo. Like me, many other photographers over the age of 50 should have started their journeys with black and white photography and were delighted to switch to color photography when it was eventually introduced.

During the past few years I have discovered that B&W still has a lot to say. Apart from the unlimited scope in fine art subjects we majorly see its use in portraiture, street, reportage etc in many interesting ways. I bet I should not be the one worrying about B&W in art as I see more and more photographers publishing their photos in B&W. 10

AMIT VAKIL Chamba, India

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Amit is a dedicated and dynamic photographer having more than seven years of extensive experience in customized photography. His work has won numerous accolades at national and international levels, including several representing India at Lonely Planet, Asian Photography, Nat Geo Traveler etc.

With an eye for detail his work shows orientation to task, sophisticated competencies in artistry and his ability to keep calm in stressful situations. He is equally conversed with various genres of photography including landscapes, travel, street, fine art and abstract. He loves to work on thematic self-assignments that gives him liberty to experiment with new concepts and learn through mistakes. He aspires to become the best in business. 22

ANTONIO SANCHEZ MARCOS Sevilla, Spain

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The magic of black and white is in the fact that the observer is free to interpret and elaborately plan to create an image in the absence of colour. This forced attention to the image makes our brains stop to decipher it, as if it were a mystery.. For instance having to imagine the colors of a landscape and sometimes trying to guess what the author wanted to underline. It always forces us to take a second look, placing it at a higher level of consciousness.

My name is Antonio Sanchez Marcos and I have been pursuing this mystery and its enchantment, since I began to get into the world of photography. Black and white makes it possible to highlight the object against the background in the photographic rendering with a greater precision than colour, since there are no distractions allowed within the confines of the scene intended to be presented. These results fascinate me and drive my passion. 34

FABRIZIO FONTANA Chiasso, Svizzera

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After a basic training in economics and a short period of work in this sector, I got a chance to go on a hitchhiking trip that somehow lasted several months. I visited France, Spain, Morocco and Portugal, the countries that became my muses after my visit to them. Coming back, I saw a radical change in my life. I left my job, my family, and place of origin and started devoting myself to several cultural and social activities. From these circles, I got my first opportunity to become an amateur actor. The acclamation made me undertake this path professionally, by first going to Milan and then to Paris where I was introduced to various formative experiences.

In Paris, I continued my training with the great masters Decroux, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq. Eventually destiny took me to Rome and there, I started working in the world of entertainment and cinematography. During the entire journey of my life, photography has stayed with me, thanks to my brother Silvano, who was a professional photographer at the time. This passion has always belonged to me although my approach remains amateur. Black and white is a choice that implies a certain amount of imagination, as we are used to seeing and thinking the world in color. This aspect fascinates me and is the reason why I chose this as a preferred artistic route, although, in terms of color, I feel like the fox who, unable to reach the grapes, chooses to ignore it. 46

GERMANA DE CHELLIS Roma, Italia

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There is no artistic photography. In photography there are, as in all things, people who know how to see and others who can't even look. - Nadar (Gaspard FÈlix Tournachon)

My concept of photography is contained in this thought of Nadar. I don't think we need to add anything else. 58

LEONARDO RICCI Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Italia

I am a 57 year old amateur photographer with great passion for black and white.

I love photography for my fascination for being able to seize the moments of time forever. I firmly believe that every moment is filled with eternal light and it must be responsibility as humans to capture them in the frame of time to be remembered in future. I join long photography walks and eventually find myself reviving them in my own shots later. I have participated in several photographic exhibitions related to the Marche landscapes. I want to give face to the emotions through my photographs. 70

ROBERTO RAMPINELLI Bergamo, Italia

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I live in Bergamo, where I was born in the year 1959. I have loved photography since I was a child, when I used to watch photographers at work and was always fascinated by the works of those geniuses who could transform the clicks of their "magic boxes" into so realistic pictures. I have cultivated this passion over the years, initially only dreaming about it and then starting with the first technical rudiment, learning from a dear friend, with a small camera given to me by my father - a man with little money and a lot of love.

The camera’s unique but fundamental quality was that it was completely manual and equipped with an exposure meter. From there I continued to refine my technique, but above all I discovered little by little the subjects that I was most passionate about and the common thread that united them - the humanity of people: in work, sport, art (especially dance), religion, and also in the simplest moments of everyday life when men and women become the human beings. My desire today is to be able to represent their humanity. I have indulged in underwater photography in the past and have many fond memories of it. I am not a professional photographer. I am a Human Resources Director in a company. I like my job for many reasons, and some of them are probably the same why I love photography. 82

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