More than half a century after the widespread adoption of color photography, black and white continues to assert a distinct and vital visual language—grounded in reduction, contrast, and form. Without color, the image is stripped to its essential elements. Light defines structure. Tone carries weight. Surface, texture, and gesture become primary. What remains is not absence, but focus—an image constructed through precision, clarity, and visual intent.

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This exhibition brings together photographic work that engages black & white and monochromatic practice as a deliberate act—where meaning is built through the interplay of light and shadow, form and contrast. The selected works demonstrate a range of approaches, unified by an attention to structure, tonal relationships, and the expressive potential of the medium. Curated by Sandrine Hermand-Grisele.