A Portrait of My Children | Black and White Portraiture

© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Seven Year Old HaiQal

© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of Three Year Old Raphael

© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Portrait of One Year Old Arianna Wearing Russian Ushanka

It’s been quite awhile since I posted a black and white portraiture of my children. Lately I like colour photography more than black and white, maybe I want to remember the colours of their clothing and the colours of their environment.

Famous Canadian photographer Ted Grant once said that “When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”. I couldn’t agree more but there is a situation where colours also express something about the person, about their belief, religion and maybe their character or personality.

Anyway I don’t have much time to discuss about that, in fact lately I rarely have time on my own. The photograph above were taken with 50 mm fixed prime lens. All of the photographs above were taken with natural light as usual under the shade, to get even lighting on their face. It seems so simple but the truth is, it never get easier to photograph them.

Some of you might notice that the black and white is not really “black,” yes you are right but then, lately I think this kind of greyscale of lighter version of black and white seems quite popular and I like to experiment.