Black and White Portraits

 Jeremy Keeney

Ann Bennet

Dylan Desamory

While the three photos above are all different in many ways, they have some similarities that are important. When you put a photo in black and white you add a level of mystery and when you do it to portraits it leaves a lot to the imagination. In the first image the man is slumped over looking at the camera, why is he doing that, is he sad? We don't know why he looks the way he does and that is open to interpretation which is the best thing about art. The same is for the other two, we don't know their real emotions from the moment but we imagine and create a character for our selves from the images more than you could from a full color piece.