Some things really are black and white.

Over the past few years, I've found my work boiling down and simplifying. What I'm drawn to is clarity and focus in my portraits, those that have a clear answer to the question, "what is the point of this photograph?" The ones I like best, of mine anyways, are unambiguous. One way to reduce a photograph to this essence that I'm after is to convert it to black and white.

Here are a handful of black and white photographs from this past month.