Edmonton Commercial Photographer Photographs Coal Miners in Alberta

For those who know my work, its pretty obvious that I prefer black and white photographs over color.

So when a client allows me to photograph industrial works in black and white I am like a kid in a candy store. Why? Because any photographer or designer will tell you that colors evoke emotions, by using or manipulating certain colors we can lead your eyes, cause you to think a certain way, even indirectly lead you to prejudge the image you are looking at.

So I feel that by removing the color, I am in fact removing a distraction, there by leaving the viewer with an image in its most basic form. I inadvertently force you to really look at the image. Im not leading you with a color scheme, over saturated colors or any other color trick, but forcing you to really see what I have presented to you in the image.

I feel my work as a whole should be classified as dignified portraits, and thus this should reveal an inner strength of my subject, and black and white work allows me to do this in the most basic form.

Here are a few photographs I shot of coal mining for the Canadian industrial archives. I am proud of this series.
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