Who Is Paul Storer?
I work exclusively digitally but the love of seeing and feeling the image appear, as if by magic, is still with me ,the developing tray has now been replaced by a printer.
The wealth of different papers available to the modern photographer allows me to search out the perfect surface, the perfect weight, the perfect feel of paper to complement the image and the subject. Imagine, if you can, a portrait of a baby printed on a silk smooth paper or the granite feel of Peak District millstones on textured paper and tell me that an image is just a collection of pixels on a monitor.
Why Black and White?
What draws me to this genre is its truthfulness. You can’t hide behind colour. Take for instance a red carnation. Have you really studied it? Really looked at the how it’s constructed? Take away the “confusion of colour” and you see what is underneath, the underlying structure, the texture, the complicated patterns of the petals shown beautifully in shades of black and white.
