LensCulture’s editors revisit 26 of the most popular articles from our Archives that feature black-and-white photography – portfolios, essays, interviews, exhibitions and book reviews.

Munem Wasif has honed his monochromatic way of visually interpreting the world. This juror for LensCulture’s Black and White Awards reveals the details that affect him most through the language of photography.

Senior Photo Editor of TIME Magazine, Thea Traff has an empowering message for photographers. Drawing on her work as an editor and photographer, she shares her top tips for making work that gets noticed.

How can something beautiful provide evidence of the atrocious? This project grapples with the millions of Soviet Ukrainian deaths under Stalin’s policy of forced starvation in the early 1930s.

This elegant coming-of-age series follows a young woman with Down syndrome as she experiences love, friendship and the nurturing bonds with her mother and nature.

Through layers of mind-bending work, Brazilian artist Paulo Coqueiro weaves a photo-based approach to writing — revealing mysteries and mistruths surrounding the disappearance of photojournalist Tito Ferraz.

Ivorian artist Joana Choumali instinctively responded to a national tragedy four years ago by embroidering on a series of photographs she had made with her iPhone — the results are images of hope and healing.

The founder of the T3 International Photo Festival in Tokyo, and a juror for LensCulture’s Street Photography Awards, talks about creating opportunities for photographers around the globe.

Portrait photographer Laura Stevens has achieved a great level of success since winning an Emerging Talent Award in 2014—and she shares some pearls of wisdom for others embarking on a similar journey.

Steering away from often problematic, graphic imagery of war, these reflective ‘portraits’ of prosthetic limbs found in Afghanistan speak to the civilian experience of conflict.