Today, most photographers shoot black-and-white images on color sensors because cameras equipped with monochrome sensors are exceedingly rare. They do exist, though: I recently had a chance to use ...

With tap water no longer safe ... eyes removed after a border guard shot him in the head. Alipoor’s black-and-white images reveal a perilous world.

But LUTs can’t add grain, vignettes or image borders, all of which can bring black and white images to life, and camera makers (except OM System) seem reluctant to take this properly on board.

Our great-grandmothers — and everything else — were in color, of course, but monochromatic images seem to take us back, perhaps because we're aware that black-and-white photographs preceded ...