Paul Phung
Paul Phung is an artist I found through Flickr and has changed my view on black and white photography completely. A lot of the black and white photography I'd seen before was quite bad, there'd often be really deep blacks and really brights white and there were no mid tones. I also often felt people just turned there photo into black and white in the editing process just because the colours didn't match very well. I really like how Phung uses light and geometry in architecture to compliment the models in his shots. A lot of Phung's shots are very dramatic, minimalist and use a lot of hard lines to create impact.
I love the way Phung has managed to turn what I believe to be part of a staircase from the previous shot and turn it into a more abstract shape. Due to the top of the image being completely white, it takes away the context of setting and allows it to be something complete different. As the concrete is the only subject, there's no scale to compare it to. If you don't think of it in a practical sense, i.e Phung wouldn't be able to take a photo of a large concrete maze, even if it was one, then it makes you think of it more fictionally. I personally think it would be cool if someone did illustrations of really small people walking along the top the concrete to turn it into a fictional landscape and show the large scale of it.
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