A Reflection of Everyday Life in Monochromatic
Lens Magazine|September 2022
My preference for black and white as a means of photographic expression has many edges... I remember reading in an interview with French photographer Giorgia Fiorio for Réponses photo magazine in 2004, she said that color photography would be the equivalent of writing prose, and black and white would be like writing in verse, which I agree with her point of view. I couldn't agree more. - Yosvaný Martínez
By Yosvany Martinez
A Reflection of Everyday Life in Monochromatic

"I am passionate about drawing, and I see that monochrome photography has a great relationship with graphite and charcoal. I have often heard the phrase "taking photography is drawing with light," I believe photography with black and white reaches its maximum expression.

When one has been doing this exercise for a while, one begins to see the shapes and how the light falls on them; everything else is unimportant; it is a way to learn to know the essence of shapes and the moments in which the light produces a unique scene.

Much of my work is documentary, the daily life of my people, and the energy that I perceive every day; I aim to express the tough and challenging life. Black and white is also a reflection of this; it has helped me to transmit the drama. I think we live in monochrome now, and it couldn't be any other way. - Yosvany Martínez

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