I've always enjoyed playing with black and white images. I grew up watching a lot of old black and white movies and always scoffed at people who refused to watch anything but color films. I had a teacher who talked about color as intention. Why shoot in color if the colors weren't going to be used to help tell the story? This definitely isn't the logic that defines modern filmmaking, but it's an interesting way to frame choice as a cinematographer/photographer.... Really thinking about how color, or the lack there of, serves as a tool for communication. I love how black and white drives me to focus on lighting- the elements of contrast, tonality, quality/quantity. All these images were shot on my phone, so they were converted to black and white after being taken (which brings up the whole discussion regarding intention of the look or color of an image in the production vs. post production stage of an image...)
