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 â proof that, like other once traditional photographic approaches, grayscale is experiencing something of a resurgence among artists today. As a book of the project, featuring work by 146 artists probing issues of gender, race and philosophy is published by Gnomic Book, Zelony-Mindell discusses the allure and ever shifting status of black-and-white image making. A: Why did you decide to curate a collection of contemporary black-and-white photography in the form of a publication?