"However it seems that Black & White film is the poor relative of colour film, its strength of expression represents something unrepeatable.
A photographer using it should have a different attitude than in colour photography when thinking of composition and light.
Absence of colour makes viewer to concentrate on such elements as texture, shape, light, tones. Colour objects are being shown as a set of greyscale tones and the way they are reproduced may differ depending on the type of B&W film, developing process or filter used during the act of taking photograph.
Some of them reproduce very subtle gradation of light and dark tones, other show it in less delicate way, sometimes even in a dramatic way. Heterogeneous tones give B&W photos a touch of subtlety and a character. It makes some to say that B&W photography is a noble technique. Therefore tones are very essential feature of B&W photography.
Value in fine arts is a gradation of paint intensity according to light disposition on the surface of an object shown. So that in B&W photography we understand value as the amount of gray in scale between black and white.
"Greyscale" - four authors in different age, and probably seeing the surrounding world and photography in a different way, showing their work on the exhibition. All connected to a photography association "Zamek" in Szczecin. Two of them candidates to national photography association "Fotoklub RP".
Photographs shown on the exhibition were created in contemplation using techniques that require large amount of knowledge. Authors are exposing works that are certainly a part of themselves."
Leszek Kurpiewski