Black & White Awards: Discover First Week Editors' Picks, and Enter Today

Plus: Cut Flowers & Climate Change New // New B&W Photobook // Japanese Self-Portraiture   %2F%2Fsendy.lensculture.com%2Fl%2Fsl2ftBAWEkJn3feYTX38GA%2FFNbdwkqk0yf892prB9B6IkOQ%2FRYok2uiNkm8bj0RZkuU1pg/1/0101018ab33a947a-9e316b8c-0972-428c-9a36-7b4efc38f4c2-000000/y_BQLt_guZXGxTh_BE6IQSIED_s=341 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY MONTH %2F%2Fsendy.lensculture.com%2Fl%2Fsl2ftBAWEkJn3feYTX38GA%2FFNbdwkqk0yf892prB9B6IkOQ%2FRYok2uiNkm8bj0RZkuU1pg/2/0101018ab33a947a-9e316b8c-0972-428c-9a36-7b4efc38f4c2-000000/LaaLeZmuXhsTYKfCuOqWCtiu_sA=341 LENSCULTURE B&W PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2023   Celebrate Black and White Photography We’re on the lookout for stunning B&W images for an amazing group exhibition in New York Spring 2024. In addition to the group show, benefits include immediate online exposure for hundreds of photographers, solo features on LensCulture, cash prizes, and more. Every entry will be immediately considered for features on Instagram and Facebook and the online Competition Gallery — so enter today! [PARTICIPATE TODAY](%2F%2Fsendy.lensculture.com%2Fl%2Fsl2ftBAWEkJn3feYTX38GA%2FFNbdwkqk0yf892prB9B6IkOQ%2FRYok2uiNkm8bj0RZkuU1pg/3/0101018ab33a947a-9e316b8c-0972-428c-9a36-7b4efc38f4c2-000000/cL7MfH7nMBVvr7ojtsGZYIOqoZE=341) Images shown above are early Editors’ Picks from recent entries. See them all in the online gallery! Clockewise from top left: © Ellis Moore, Marcel Mellema, Ryszard Zembrzuski, David Cohen, Natalie Arber, Patricia Cançado Winning the LensCulture B&W Photography Award was an experience like no other. Both personally and professionally. I was invited for gallery shows, festivals and publications. But as importantly, I began to trust the inner voice that allows me to create and show what I love to do. — Aarón González González, B&W Photography Awards 2019 Winner [Article image](%2F%2Fsendy.lensculture.com%2Fl%2Fsl2ftBAWEkJn3feYTX38GA%2FIPQ3f5xQh5M2NxWGfqhZJA%2FRYok2uiNkm8bj0RZkuU1pg/1/0101018ab33a947a-9e316b8c-0972-428c-9a36-7b4efc38f4c2-000000/yFs87q_N3cYeOThTGvA_nycf2ws=341) BOOK REVIEW   Devil's Rib Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity. Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik. Book review by Erik Vroons. 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