Black and White Jewish Wedding Photography

Black and white is not a filter applied at the end. It is a decision made while shooting, because a frame that will be printed in monochrome is composed for shape and light rather than for colour, and a colour photograph desaturated afterwards almost always looks like exactly that.

It earns its place in specific situations at a Jewish wedding. The tisch, where the room is warm and cluttered and colour is doing nothing but adding noise. The badeken, where the emotion is entirely in faces and hands. Older relatives, always. And the mitzvah tantz, shot in almost no light, where monochrome turns grain from a defect into the texture of the thing. The rest of the night stays in colour, because a kallah's dress and a room full of flowers are not improved by having their colour removed on principle.