TITLE: Pro Forma

When you photograph flowers in color you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph flowers in black and white, you photograph their souls!
Ted Grant (1913—2006)

How often do we talk or hear about the much-vaunted 'colorful flowering'. But is it really so attractive? Aren't we attracted to those areas in gardens and parks whose discreet, sparing use of color is impressive? In which colorful blossoms do not steal each other's thunder, but rather direct our gaze through their form, seduce our eye?

And how much they seduce our eye only when you take away their color! When they are allowed to unfold their beauty in the black space. A beauty that reveals its uniqueness down to the most delicate gray, but also reveals surprising similarities. A beauty that shows its power in strong contrasts, but also its vulnerability in the filigree form.

AUTHOR: Wolfgang Wiesen (Germany)

Freelance photographer.