A Black & White Gallery

Who needs color to capture skiing? Gallery

[Introducing a collection of black and white images by Utah-based photographer Scott Markewitz. This gallery features skiers Bobby Brown, Julian Carr, Jamie Pierre, Henrik Windstedt and more, and was shot all over Utah and as far as Portillo, Chile. Below are Markewitz's words.]

I really like black and white because it changes the way you look at an image and gives it a completely different feel than a color image. It's not so much that it's photography in its most basic form, but by removing color from the image you strip it down to its most basic elements -- light and shadow, where everything becomes shapes and textures that you use to balance off each other.

I think black and white doesn't get used much because skiing is such a dynamic, colorful sport that it's easy to overlook the possibilities of capturing it in black and white.