MY JOURNEY WITH MONOCHROME

MICK WILLIS 

Photography has always been a fascination for me going back many years when I watched my father producing black and white images in our makeshift darkroom. He would have been amazed at the ease that we produce images these days. He used to photograph in the Lake District in the 1920's and carry a heavy plate camera, a wooden tripod and a large quantity of glass plates. I was always impressed with the graphic quality that could be achieved with black and white and was influenced by photographers like Eugene Atget, Henri Cartier Bresson, Leonard Misonne, and Robert Doisneau. Most of the images here were taken in France and a few in Italy. Sue and I spent much of our time abroad searching out shots that could be used in competitions. I still find the UK an amazing place though for landscapes. This website is a new one and starts off with more recent work but also includes some images I have been putting together for many years called 'Timeless France'. These images of old buildings .were influenced greatly by an exhibition I went to in London in 1984 by Eugene Atget. An amazing photographer who lived in Paris and spent his time recording people and buildings up to about 1910.An amazing add your own text.

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