When I talked to DuVernay and the four other directors who made the miniseries-Sheldon Candis, Angel Kristi Williams, Robert Townsend, and Kenny Leon-we discussed how the media has historically portrayed Black men: as victims of police brutality as emotionally unavailable partners as sexual deviants as thugs. Colin in Black & White-co-created by Kaepernick and Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay-shows viewers the man behind the activism it explores Kaepernick's childhood, discovering his love of football while also navigating his identity as Black boy with white parents in a predominantly white town. Today, people know him as the American icon who lost his career for taking a knee. You’re just trying to make the team.”īut as he got older, Kaepernick learned how his identity fluctuated between the oppressive systems around him. “As a kid, you’re not thinking that you’re being groomed for a system," he says in the Netflix show. Growing up, Kaepernick didn't see the NFL as a modern-day slave auction. The owners shake on it, and the body- that Black body-is their property now. Coaches and team owners bid for them: “I’ll take this one for five hundred” “Six hundred” “One thousand. Before you can make it to the tryouts, there's the Combine, where players-most of whom are Black-are assessed like cattle to determine if they have any defects that might alter their performance. Whereas color will simply distract the viewer and prevent them from seeing what the photo is all about.īlack and white can also eliminate distracting color casts that would otherwise subtly shift the viewer’s attention away from what matters.THERE'S A SEQUENCE in the first episode of Colin Kaepernick's new miniseries, Colin in Black & White, that shows the road to playing in the NFL. If you’re photographing a weathered man with a face full of wrinkles, black and white will highlight the texture of the wrinkles, the intensity of the man’s age. Plus, color itself can take away emphasis on contrast, texture, lighting, shape, and form. And a distracting red rock in the foreground of a seascape might turn a nice neutral gray following a black and white conversion.
Specifically, there are plenty of distractions that exist in color that simply disappear when converted to black and white.įor instance, a rainbow shirt in a color portrait may draw the eye, but is essentially unnoticeable in B&W.
The world in color is great, but sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming. Ultimately, this emphasis on tone and light over colorful hues will help you see the world differently – and may even result in a brand-new photographic style.
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