Allora Gallery invites photographers from around the world to submit work for our international photography competition, “Black & White.”
Colour draws the eye, but black and white photography reveals something deeper — the underlying structure of the world, stripped of distraction. Without colour, light becomes the subject itself: the way it falls across a face, sculpts a landscape, or catches the edge of an object in motion. Shadows gain weight. Textures become tactile. Contrast tells stories that colour sometimes obscures. Black and white photography is not an absence — it is a different kind of seeing.
We seek photographs that use the full range of tone and light to reveal what colour might conceal. How does removing colour change the mood of a portrait? What does a landscape become when reduced to light and shadow? Can the absence of colour make an image feel more immediate, more timeless, more true? We’re looking for images where the choice to shoot in black and white is not a stylistic habit but a considered decision — one that makes the photograph stronger.
We welcome portraits that use tone and shadow to reveal character, landscapes transformed by the absence of colour, street photography where contrast defines the moment, architectural images that emphasise form and geometry, abstract work exploring light, texture, and pattern, long exposures that turn movement into atmosphere, and any photograph where black and white is not simply a filter but the foundation of the image.
What does the world look like when you remove colour from the equation? How does working in black and white change what you notice, what you photograph, and how you see? We’re looking for images that demonstrate the power and discipline of monochrome — photographs that prove some visions are strongest when rendered in light and shadow alone.
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