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[capture] sep_oct.19

MAIN: Growing Pains #2.

“Following my wife’s stroke

last year, I feel a renewed

urgency to freeze moments as

our two boys grow up. Alex,

my oldest son, pointed out

some beautiful light, softened

by a bushfire. We frequently

collaborate like this. This image

is from a wider body of work,

Growing Pains, and follows

moments of recovery, tension,

and love within our family.”

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256 shades of

Black and white is called monochrome. The mono part is

misleading. Removing colours simply allows other aspects of an

image – emotion, tone, and contrast, among them – to come

into play. It’s a storytelling powerpack, if you will. Once the only

choice, it is becoming, for growing number of photographers,

the first choice again. Candide McDonald reports.