Primarily / Primary colors?

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Written By John Hendrick || Staff Photojournalist Pepper magazine || UTSA Photography Instructor

Why primary colors? Why primarily colors?

These are the two questions I have been asked the last week.

Well, I'll explain it, if you don't mind. First, let me say I love Black and White photography as well; as a matter of fact, I owned the Leica monochrome for a while. I did a whole piece on NYC (link above) in Black and White. So why the shift?

I reached out for some mentorship (I’ll post something on that later this month), and the result was to work on my color work which is pretty good at the moment.

So I looked through all my images, did some art history homework, and came across the whole Bauhaus movement of 1919. It was fitting as it all started in Germany, and I knew I had a link with the tool I was working with (Leica cameras). As I dove deeper into the rabbit hole, I noticed it focused primarily on primary colors.

So here we are at the brink of my color movement, taking everything I know about art history, design, and photography and owning my space as the color street photographer.

I have some of my best shoots for purchase in my shop.

Thanks for all the support,

John

John Hendrick || Staff Photojournalist Pepper magazine || UTSA Photography Instructor

Born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens.

John grew up skateboarding in the mid-’80s and into the late ’90s when NYC was the melting pot of pop culture. He worked as a messenger and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For the past 23 years, John has traveled worldwide and lived abroad in Italy, Spain, and Japan.

https://www.johnhendrick.com
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