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Monochrome Moods

Black and white photography, at its best.

Monochrome Moods is black and white photography at its best — it plays between the contrasts of light and dark, finds the farthest edges between them, and puts them in one image. Not only stripping a photo to its essence, but finding a new truth.

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Upward view through a curved steel-and-glass curtain wall ceiling, with a multi-storey white interior facade visible behind the mullion grid and a circular oculus at the top of the frame.
Partially demolished concrete tower and tall green crane rising above an ADEX construction hoarding in a Rotterdam park, summer blue sky above, shadowed grass in the foreground.
Black and white close-up of a dark brick church facade in The Hague. A street sign reading Rond de Grote Kerk is mounted above a gothic arch. Leaded windows, an iron cross wall bracket, and red painted doors fill the frame.
Upward perspective on a modernist office building facade in Amsterdam Zuid, clad in large panels of dark veined stone with recessed aluminium-framed window grids repeating across multiple floors.
Monochrome view of the World Trade Center Amsterdam entrance. A tall glass curtain wall carries the building logo above a revolving door. A bronze figurative sculpture stands in the right foreground, casting a sharp shadow on the plaza pavement.
Large brick industrial complex on the bank of the river Maas in Maastricht, with an active steam plume rising from the chimney tower and the full building reflected in the calm river below, under a dramatic clouded sky.
Low-angle upward view of a Dutch brick courtyard in Haarlem, showing a slate-clad historic tower with pagoda cornice and weather vane, an arched gateway, flanking facades, and a turbulent overcast sky.
A narrow Dutch alley in Haarlem, brick walls close on both sides, a parked car to the left, graffiti on the right wall, a church tower visible at the far end under a heavy overcast sky.
Monochrome view looking up at a curved concrete canopy soffit and steel column above a gabion wire-cage stone retaining wall, golden-hour light catching panel cladding, The Hague.
Upward view into an urban canyon in The Hague: a dark glazed facade with large pale letterforms on the left, a tall pale residential tower with grid windows and balconies on the right, narrow strip of clear blue sky above.
Upward view of a split exterior staircase flanked by glass balustrades at a limestone-clad residential building in Amsterdam Zuid, with planted terraces and steel-framed glazing above.
Elevated view of two green football training pitches in Amsterdam Zuidas, with the EY tower's diamond-lattice glass curtain wall rising against a partly cloudy blue sky in the background.
Monochrome view of the Loods 5 brick warehouse gable in Maastricht, a large Fabrique billboard mounted on the facade, dramatic storm clouds building overhead, parked cars in the foreground.
Low-angle worm's-eye view of a concrete viaduct edge in Maastricht, with steel guardrails along the top, a single pigeon perched on the corner, and a heavy overcast sky filling the frame. A Frontenpad street sign is visible at lower right.
Multi-storey office building with white diamond-pattern expanded metal cladding alternating with horizontal bands of dark reflective curtain-wall glazing; angled glazed section on the right under a deep blue sky.
Low-angle monochrome view of the bronze Coster statue on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, right arm raised, with the Gothic nave and buttresses of Sint-Bavokerk filling the right frame against a dramatic overcast sky.
Side elevation of the Rijksmuseum rear wing in Amsterdam, showing dark brick facade with ornamental medallion, steep slate rooflines with finials, a clock tower, and a pale limestone modern annex at right, behind an ornamental iron fence.
Low-angle silhouette of a Dutch windmill in Amstel Park, Amsterdam. The diagonal sail lattice crosses a starburst sun flare against a clear dark sky, shot contre-jour.
Two tall yellow tower cranes rise above a treeline in Amsterdam Zuid. An NS yellow-and-blue train passes on the rail corridor below, with a motorway, canal, and football pitch in the foreground under a dramatic cumulus sky.
Interior of a concrete road tunnel in Pijnacker, Netherlands. A tiled wall with aged yellow and grey tiles recedes sharply into compressed perspective on the left; the tunnel ceiling cuts diagonally overhead. A two-lane road with white striping leads toward a bright tree-lined exit.
Low-angle monochrome view looking up an empty escalator inside a glass-fronted multi-storey atrium in The Hague, with converging handrail diagonals and upper floors visible.
Looking up at a tall pointed-arch gothic window inside a Breda church. Intricate stone tracery fills the upper arch; leaded glass panes glow against a clear sky. The interior walls and lower shutter panels fall into near-total shadow.
Low upward angle on a mid-century glazed facade at Amsterdam Science Park. White-framed curtain wall grid fills the frame; a decorative round clock is mounted centrally. A canopy overhang is visible at the bottom, deep blue sky and a single cloud above.
Maastricht waterfront viewed across the Maas river: white modernist building, brick brutalist tower, and grain silo under a heavy dramatic cloud sky, with graffiti along the quayside walls.
Low-angle view of a tall yellow tower crane with extended diagonal jib against a deep clear blue sky, prefab site office and street trees below, Netherlands.

Only the photographs that work better without colour show up in Monochrome Moods. The frame holds itself up — by form, by light, by contrast, by the weight of what's in it — and colour would be in the way.

The work runs heavy on architecture and industrial register. Modernist glass facades from below where the grid becomes the photograph. Brutalist concrete — stairs, walls, the texture of poured surfaces. Old facades against dramatic sky, civic and institutional buildings read as graphic form, factories and cranes at the working edges of cities. Landscape and water make it in too — coast, polder, fog over a field — but black and white tends to reward subjects that already think in form. The Netherlands is a country built in brick and reclaimed land, with civic buildings as graphic anchors and weather doing dramatic work on a flat horizon. The collection draws on all of it.

Light does heavy lifting here. Stark sun for the deepest blacks, heavy overcast for the flattest tonal range, fog and weather for the dramatic register, a sky doing graphic work behind a facade. Black and white rewards conditions that already think in it — high contrast or even contrast, never decorative middle.

Camera is a Nikon D3500. Prime and wide-angle both, used however the subject calls for it. Full kit on My Gear.

Monochrome Moods is photography at its strongest in black and white. The frame stands without colour because it never needed it.

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