Gallery of Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Modern Black & White Photos

This gallery is for modern and contemporary photography from the year 2000 or later (until digital photography took over), except for Historical events.
For older black and white photographs, please use the Historical or Historical Portraits galleries.

Modern Black and White Photos (year 2000—)

Animals

011 Plains zebra eye close-up in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent
CH.LU.Rothenburg 2009-04-12 Toni's-Zoo 348c 3x2-R 4K
Ovis aries
(Domestic sheep)

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Objects

Cristo Redentor São Cristóvão Sergipe 2022-4944
Сава центар конгресна соба (Sava Center, convention room)
Defunct Chestnut Hill pumping station in the Waterworks Museum, Boston
Drop impact
Groove and needle in close embrace from beginning to end
Sink and taps in the men's locker room 3 BW
Clay Pots-BW-IMG 7303
Calaveras – skulls typical of Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico
Plastic- and Nylonzipper
Waterworks Museum (85472)bw
Spiralbinderücken -- 2022 -- 9739 (bw)
Schachfiguren, Bauern -- 2022 -- 0022 (bw)
Черные чулки
Buda de Ibiraçu
Küchenhelfer
Steam locomotive gear (JŽ 06-018; Slovenia)
Tinnen maatbekers 18-02-2025. (actm.) 02
The built in flash of a SLR camera, Pentax MZ-30, firing 1
DC3 Skå June 2017 05
Trier, 08-12-2023 (actm.) 38

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People

2005. Necesidade de atención dun neno galego. Galicia (Spain)
Departing subway at Dundas, Toronto
Algerian man with turban and musket
Man talking on phone in Montréal airport
Boy wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, Egypt
Recife, the Brazilian capital of social inequality
A girl resting in shade during the summer heat
Runners in tunnel, Portugal
The Photographer
Allegory of communist press censorship, 1989
Nude recumbent woman
Nude study
Homeless - American Flag
Commuting by bicycle
Cycling Amsterdam
Bicycle reflections
Walking reflection

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Events

Ballet shoes (Russian ballet school М. Исаева)
Asaro Mud Man Kabiufa
Procession during Easter Friday in Santa Ana Guanajuato
Caretos Lazarim, Portugal

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Groups

Human shields greeted crossing border into Iraq
Arrested refugees immigrants in Fylakio detention center, Thrace Evros, Greece
Falling rain in Mexico

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People at work

Man playing an acoustic brazilian guitar (Violão) on Marco Zero Square, Refice, Pernambuco, Brazil
Patti Smith performing in Finland, 2007
Graeme Allwright en concert le 28 juillet 2012
19º International Jazz Festival of Punta del Este
Zara Larsson @ The Observatory OC 05 02 2019 (48498569766)
Play with a wheel
Worker in São Paulo city
Street Craftsman in Olinda
Sky Garden - Workmen
Construction workers in Mexico
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters Margaret Hamilton 1973
Cobbler repairing shoes in old workshop (Bazaar in Bitola, Macedonia, 2025)

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Portraits

Elderly man in Rhodes, Greece
The History of Apple Pie - Kelly Lee Owens
Portrait of a woman in traditional Algerian Berber dress
Billie Eilish at Pukkelpop Festival
Elisabetha Drum (b. Scherer), Austria
Man with his grandson in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Khairdeen urf Pritam, Black and White
Fishmonger smiling, Maracaibo street market, Venezuela
Bearded man with long hair1
Bearded man smoking pipe
Bruno Doucey
Tomi Ungerer, 2014
Jessica Meir official portrait in an EMU (B&W)
Model Rosie on a bed - In Black and White
Dallos-Nyers Boglárka 2013

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Plants

File:MagnoliaBlossom1925.jpgMagnoliaBlossom1925
File:Vrouwenmantel_(Alchemilla_mollis)_d.j.b_04.jpgVrouwenmantel (Alchemilla mollis) d.j.b 04
File:Entzia_-_Espino_albar_01.jpgEntzia - Espino albar 01
File:Entzia_-_Paisaje_-BT-_01.jpgEntzia - Paisaje -BT- 01
File:Antiguo_Puerto_de_Vitoria_-_Quejigos_01.jpgQuercus faginea (Portuguese Oak)
File:Dülmen,_Leuste,_Bäume_im_Nebel_--_2020_--_5042_(bw).jpgDülmen, Leuste, Bäume im Nebel -- 2020 -- 5042 (bw)
File:Große_Linde_bei_Teuchatz_P1320563-PS.jpgGroße Linde bei Teuchatz P1320563-PS
File:Pepper_No._30.jpgPepper No. 30 by Edward Weston
File:Ansel_Adams_-_National_Archives_79-AA-E23.jpgAnsel Adams - National Archives 79-AA-E23 levels adj
File:Abstract_pattern_on_a_tree_stump.jpgAbstract pattern on a tree stump

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Places

File:Potsdam_Park_bw_amk.jpgPotsdam Park

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Landscapes

Forest road Slavne 2017 BW G9
Ilha da Trindade - 2022 (52550616522)
Sankt Georgen am Laengsee Taggenbrunn: Burgruine mit Weinberg
Ski lines
Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Power lines during Blue Hour LR
Borkum, Hauptstrand -- 2020 -- 2691 (bw)
Elvillar - Chabola de la Hechicera 01
Sorlada - San Gregorio Ostiense 02
Vitoria - Parque de Olárizu - Niebla y cencellada -BT- 01
Egileta - Camino GR25 01.jpg/2
Pesona Kabut Bromo
Beach "Oststrand" of Norderney

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Natural scenes

Deathvalleysky
Mountain Peak, Alaska (1999)
Seal ämblikud magavad
Alberi Alpe di Siusi
Mont Blanc du Tacul depuis l’Aiguille du Midi
Iturrieta - Fagus sylvatica
Forested hills in Lysekil in fog
Vlychada Beach in Exomitis, Santorin
Embalse de Puente Nuevo in Cordoba
Dead tree on the trail to Forau de Aigualluts, Huesca.
Benasque - Aigualluts - Pico de la Mina 02
Camp Creek State Park - Campbell Falls WV 4bw
Dülmen, Kirchspiel, Bauerschaft Börnste -- 2021 -- 4406 (bw)
Ocean beach at low tide
California
Stubai - Ruetz -BT- 01
Untere Stuhllochscharte

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Towns and cities

The Scoop at More London

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Structures

Laçador statue illuminated by the supermoon, Porto Alegre
Monumento Supercuia em preto e branco
Roundabout interchange
Zernez, Unterengadin, Graubünden
Concrete fence of Nagai Botanical Garden (B&W)
Wavy fence and a wall BW version
Benches at Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada
Müga Wasserspiele
Inside 118 inch HDPE pipe
Pont de Ceps
Pulaski Skyway full view
San Francisco (CA, USA), Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Vasco da Gama Bridge B&W (crop)
Ludwigstadt, Trogenbachbrücke
Palace Pier, March 2017
Kokerei Zollverein Essen - Kühltürme

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Buildings

Building exteriors

Windows of the Frost Building (Toronto, Canada)
Teatro Juarez Columns
Iglesia de San Francisco
Bikini-Haus-Berlin-schwarz-weiss-2023
Bonn, Post-Tower -- 2017 -- 2128 (bw)
Kearny Generating Station September 2020 BW
Vancouver (BC, Canada), Canada Place -- 2022 -- 1906 (bw)
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie -- 2023 -- 6610 (bw)
Dülmen, Kirchspiel, ehem. Sondermunitionslager Visbeck, Laufgang -- 2023 -- 6796 (bw)
Kopenhagen (DK), Bahnhof -- 2017 -- 1672 (bw)
Nine steps stair in Lysekil
Abstract spiral pattern (Unsplash)
1 Mercado do Bolhão
House facade in Île d'Orléans, Quebec city, Quebec, Canada202204-23

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Building interiors

Claro - BIT
Dülmen, St.-Viktor-Kirche, Aufgang zum Kirchturm -- 2021 -- 6700-2 (bw, crop)
Heiligengrabe, Kloster Stift zum Heiligengrabe, Abtei, Dachgeschoss -- 2017 -- 9918-24 (bw)
Heiligengrabe, Kloster Stift zum Heiligengrabe, Abtei, Dachgeschoss -- 2017 -- 9904-10 (bw)
Leeds Corn Exchange
Antwerp Central Station
Sao Paulo Railway
Ana rosa metro station, São Paulo, Brazil
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum skylight
City Hall, London, Spiral Staircase
Spiral stairs (Art Deco, Nebotičnik, Ljubljana)
The Crypte
Dülmen, Kirchspiel, ehem. Sondermunitionslager Visbeck, Beobachtungsturm der US Army -- 2022 -- 4452 (bw)
Palácio Anchieta Vitória Espírito Santo Interior 2019-2957

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Others

Würfelzucker -- 2018 -- 3564

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