Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Nature / Flowers

Botanicals in Black and White

  • Photographer
    Jack Curran

I love the way light and shadows play against the complex textures of the plants. One of the biggest challenges I've found is how do I interpret such complex subjects that have varied texture and form and deliver this in a simple yet powerful way to the viewer. The answer for me is to eliminate many distractions as possible. Which is the reason I prefer black and white as the primary approach. This allows me to concentrate on how the light and shadows work together wiht the form of the subject in a raw and beautiful way.

You might say there was a natural collision of circumstances between Jack’s nearly lifelong love of nature, and that of photography. His wondrous journey into nature began when he attended an Outward Bound month-long wilderness course at age 16. At 18, (just over 40 years ago) he picked up his first camera, developed his first B&W print in the darkroom and quickly put his two passions together. In recent years Jack’s photography has been exhibited in Paris, Athens, Berlin, Moscow, and Malaga Spain and domestically in the US and published internationally.