Series · 25 works
The Monochrome Work
The intentional black-and-white practice across subjects and locations
Series note
The Monochrome Work gathers the intentional black-and-white practice across subjects, locations, and categories — work where the decision to remove colour is itself the primary compositional act.
Monochrome is not nostalgia and it is not default. Each image here was made, or selected, because the stripping of colour reveals something that colour would have concealed: the tonal structure of alpine peaks, the geometry of a fisherman's silhouette against flat water, the way fog equalises a Dutch field and a solitary tree into something close to the absolute minimum. The pivot point is always the same: colour would have competed; monochrome allows the subject to hold the frame alone.
The series crosses subjects and geographies deliberately. A Ugandan fisherman and a foggy Belgian railway corridor have nothing in common except a quality of tonal compression that makes them neighbours. A giraffe and an alpine ridge share a common silhouette grammar. The Monochrome Work is the series that shows most directly what a coherent visual practice looks like — the same sensibility applied across entirely different circumstances.
