Yousuf Karsh (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. Yousuf or Josuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep) Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He…
Intense and strong patterns of human stories encrypted in the shapes of various faces. Brett Walker has his unique style of portraying the lives of people, what has inspired him to capture these daunting portraits must be really spectacular. All these unique and bold faces, resemble each other and keep chanting…
Faces, strong emotions with stark stories. A Portrait should more or less convey the character and mood of the person and a good portrait will always make you deliberately look at it again. In this post of ours, I wanted to carefully pick an elegant list of mind-blowing photographs which…
Magda Andrzejewska is a Polish Photographer based in Warsaw. Her genre of photography deals with fine-art portraits with peculiar characters with beautiful emotions. Magda believes in capturing the uniqueness of her subjects through this wonderful trait of lighting them naturally without any extra lights. Photo By: Mariusz Janiszewski This very much…
“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.” – Yousuf Karsh Here we have collected some amazing soulful and intense black and white portraits from inspiring photographers. All photos are linked and lead to the sources…
There is this specific and peculiar reason to produce a black and white photograph. The mood and essence of the capture remains intact since there is no external disturbances inside the photograph for you to move away from the poignant and looping silence within, here the same applies for a…
In our previous post, we have announced the Winner and 5 Honorable Mentions. In this post we have selected 25 Best Entries out of 526 pictures in The Black and White Portrait Photography Contest. Pictures are displayed by Alphabetical Order. Thank you all for your participation. Photographer Name : Akash…
Dear Photographers, The Black & White Portrait Contest, We announced this month had some tremendous response! Yes Out of 532 Entries to select a winner with 5 Honorable mentions would have definitely been a Hard job for Our Respectable Jury Yuro Kurnosov ! We a team in 121clicks thank our…
Photo Credits : Yura Kurnosov, Jeroen Oosterhof We are happy to inform you, The 121 Clicks Photo Contest for April 2012 in the category of “Black and White Portrait Photography”. Please check the below guidelines and submit your photos. Submission Guidelines Send your Original Black and White Portrait Photograph. The…
