Black and white portrait photography

Alan Schaller, an iconic figure in black and white photography, is a British photographer.

Alan Schalle is a famous British street photographer and the founder of Street Photography International (SPI), an international street photography organization. He focuses on black and white photography, combining surrealism, geometry and high contrast. He is very good at revealing various cities with imaginative composition and emotional tension.

In his works, the two basic colors of black and white, in the harmony of light and shadow and characters in the picture, constitute a meaningful and well-defined strong-eyed work, which is very enjoyable for viewers.

Alan Schaller really picked up the camera for only five years, and he quickly attracted the attention of photographers all over the world with his unique black-and-white narrative technique. Last year, he also participated in the Shanghai Leica Street Photography Festival, which won high praise from the media and accumulated many fans in Asia. Metropolis, exhibited at Leica Pavilion in Taipei, takes the international metropolis as the story stage and presents various life forms.

Alan Schaller spent a lot of time exploring, shooting and feeling, and then gradually developed a simple and atmospheric composition beauty and a picture full of emotional tension.

And he also has his own cognition: he only uses Leica M Monochrom(Typ 246) and M 10 Monochrom to create black and white works, sometimes limiting himself to keep the shooting distance of 1.2 meters. He believes that "restriction" is particularly important for inspiring his own style, especially in choosing an endless generation. It is not easy to focus only on certain things, such as self-concept.

Dare to refuse all other shooting attempts, so I studied deeply in the black and white field and gradually became proficient. In just five years, he relied on pure black-and-white photography and had more than 600,000 fans in the community.

Allen Schaller also took portraits and orthodox street photography before he created the Metropolis series, but he hoped that his works could express a deeper concept, so he took the daily life of the city as the background, combined with the theme, light and shadow, perspective and interpersonal interaction, showing a strong and unique view of the city. Everything that people are familiar with in the city has become a symbol, and some abstract changes have been constructed in the picture. Between the virtual and the real, it reflects the alienation between people and the urban space where they live.

No matter which city the viewer appreciates in the metropolitan series, the sharp contrast between light and shade in the picture, the relationship between characters and a dramatic sense of loneliness naturally flow out, which also forces people to reflect on where every soul should go under the mode of getting along with modern life.

Alan Schaller transformed the world's major cities into their own metropolitan ecology through black-and-white photography, and also let the public see different urban features. Alan Schaller also said that "passion" is the best way to describe how to keep a passion for photography. "You just don't want to do anything with the teacher, but one thing will make you run away from home and want to finish it anyway. Bed work is an award-winning creativity and personal attitude presented in its own style, so as to find its own way of photography. 」