Black Creek, Cutler Bay, Florida
Discover Miami Without Color
Miami is a city of color.
Neon against the night. Turquoise water. Pastel buildings. Tropical greens. Sun-Bleached streets. Bright cars. Bright clothes. Bright lives.
But remove the color, and another Miami emerges.
Monochrome Miami Commenced in June of 2026 upon receiving my new Q3 Monochrom from the Leica Store Miami and is an ongoing photographic journey into that other city, a study of light, shadow, architecture, movement, and the people who give Miami its restless energy.
Photographed entirely in black and white with the Leica Q3 Monochrom, the project strips away the distraction of color to reveal the details beneath it: the geometry of a street corner, the texture of an aging wall, a fleeting expression, a figure disappearing into a shadow, or a moment that exist for only a second, never to be duplicated.
This is Miami seen differently.
Not as a postcard.
As a place.
As a mood.
As a living, breathing city that is constantly reinventing itself.
Water Lilies West Lincoln Road Mall, Miami Beach.
THE JOURNEY
My relationship with photography began in the mid-1970's with a Canon AE-1, a gift from my parents, and a roll of black and white film.
Before digital photography made the process almost instantaneous, making a photograph required patience. Film had to be loaded. Light had to be measured. Moments had to be anticipated. And eventually, the photographs came to life in the darkroom.
I built a darkroom at home and learned to develop my own black and white film and make my own prints.
There was something profound about watching an image slowly emerge from a blank sheet of photographic paper.
Those early experiences shaped the way I see photography today.
Decades later I returned to black and white with the Leica Q3 Monochrom. The technology has changed dramatically.
The fascination has not.
WHY BLACK & WHITE ?
Silos in Wynwood area of Miami
Miami may be one of the most colorful cities in the world, but color can sometimes conceal as much as it reveals.
Black and white removes that distraction.
It draws the eye toward light and shadow, form and texture, contrast and expression.
It creates ambiguity.
It slows the moment down.
A person becomes a silhouette. A familiar building becomes something almost abstract. A shadow becomes part of the architecture, A passing stranger becomes a character in an unfinished story.
Without color, Miami feels both immediate and timeless.
And perhaps that is the real fascination.
Miami is constantly changing, yet somehow remains unmistakably Miami.
THE STREETS
Wynwood area of Miami
The street is where this project lives.
From South Beach to Little Havana, from Downtown to Wynwood, from Brickell to the neighborhoods and streets beyond the familiar Miami Postcard, I am looking for moments that might otherwise disappear unnoticed.
The people.
The architecture.
The contrasts.
The solitude.
The energy.
The unexpected.
Sometimes the photograph is obvious.
More often, it isn't.
A shadow falls across a sidewalk. Someone pauses beneath a doorway. Two strangers cross paths without ever knowing they have shared the same frame. A building catches the last light of the afternoon.
These are the moments I am searching for.
Photography, at its best, is not simply about recording what is there.
It is about noticing what most people pass by.
MIAMI, REDISCOVERED
There is no single Miami.
There are countless versions of it, layered on top of one another.
The Miami of the tourist.
The Miami of the local.
The Miami of the immigrant.
The Miami of architecture and design.
The Miami of nightlife.
The Miami of quiet neighborhoods and early mornings.
The Miami of memories.
And the Miami that exists for only a fraction of a second when light, place and person come together.
Monochrome Miami is an attempt to discover and rediscover those versions of the city.
A city that never seems to sleep.
A city that is always changing.
A city that is often ahead of the trend.
And a city whose visual character becomes surprisingly timeless when seen in black and white.
THE
CAMERA
The Leica Q3 Monochrom is the instrument through which this project is being created.
A dedicated monochrome full sensor camera changes the way you approach a scene. Without the possibility of color, the photograph begins with a different question.
Where is the light?
The Q3 Monochrom allows me to work intuitively on the streets of Miami, responding to moments as they happen rather than staging them.
The camera is my tool.
The city is the subject.
The photograph is the conversation between the two.
New York Street Lifeguard Station, Hollywood Beach, Florida
We Only Have One HOME
Let's Preserve It!
Black Point Jetty, Cutler Bay, Florida
THE COLLECTION
The images created through Monochrome Miami are available as limited-edition fine art photographs.
Each photograph is intended to exist beyond the screen, to become an object that can live on a wall, in a home, office, commercial space, restaurants, gallery, or collection.
The prints are produced with archival materials and produced and processed at WHITEWALL award-winning photo lab. All photo prints, mountings and frames are of gallery quality and are available in carefully selected sizes and editions.
Whether you have a connection to Miami, a love of street photography, or simply respond to the language of black and white, these photographs are meant to invite a second look.
Explore the collection.
Collect a piece of Miami.
