Cities in black & white

There are a thousand and one ways of paying tribute to Paris, the City of Light. One of the most beautiful is immortalizing it in photographs. Photographers Dennis Ramos and Serge Ramelli as well as the Gamma Agency collective chose to sublimate the French capital by bathing it in black and white. Timeless symbols of the City of Light, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre, are poetically transformed through plays of light and surprising perspectives. Through this selection of photographs, YellowKorner invites you to lose yourself in the streets of a rarely seen Paris, magnified through a black-and-white prism.

Eiffel Tower: the symbol of Paris. You feel tiny under her skirt! Serge Ramelli ’s dream of photographing Paris like in films has come true. His passion for photography and cinema respectively, led him to capture the iconic sites of Paris as well as the poetry emanating from the city’s architecture. Through lighting and framing effects, he succeeds in obtaining powerful, contrasting, and dramatic images that allow him to showcase the aesthetic and graphic qualities of his subjects. For this photograph, he applied a black-and-white technique to the digital format once used by American photographer Ansel Adams – the "zone system" – which allows photography to match the visual reality perceived by the artist as closely as possible.

Of all the cities in Italy, Venice is no doubt the most fascinating. Could it be thanks to the water all around it ? To its architectural treasures ? Or its fabulous islands, which appear suspended between earth and sky ? It’s hard to pin it down. However, YellowKorner’s photographers have been able to enhance many aspects of the City of Bridges. Artist Jonathan Chritchley wanted to convey an atypical image of this floating city. Through monochrome work, the photographer reveals rare, almost intimate images of this city living ‘down by the waterside’.