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Monochrome Visionaries Primal Sight began in 2018 as a portfolio of images curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell for the magazine Dear Dave. A year later, on the invitation of In the In-Between, Zelony-Mindell ran an open call for an online exhibition of contemporary black-and-white photography. More than 200 people applied – proof that, like other once traditional photographic approaches, grayscale is experiencing something of a resurgence among artists today. As a book of the project, featur...

The first question is for Efrem: why did you edit a book about black-and-white photography? Efrem Zelony-Mindell: I’m not sure it was all that complicated when this all began, by which I mean, there wasn’t a huge conceptual basis when I first started collecting images for Primal Sight. It was in 2016 that I first started noticing black-and-white images that felt very much like they were breaking out of a canonical and modernist lens that has come to be so expected of black-and-white ...