A bride is helped by her mother before the wedding for a destination wedding
at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Jimmy Jeong.

Traditionally, the bride wears white and the groom is in black. Really, what
more do you need. Everything else is just an added garnish. In fact, they
may prove distracting. Well, at least when it comes to the photographs.

Look at the photo above. Where is your eye drawn to?

In the original scene, the mother is wearing a colourful traditional Korean
dress. If you saw this photograph in colour, then that would be the first
thing your eye would probably pop to. But in this B&W version, you might
instead start at the bride. You would notice the contrast of her eyebrows,
eyelashes and her hair with the surrounding white. Your eyes would spend
extra time noticing the transparency and texture of the veil and the cross
patterns of her dress. Then you might notice the forms in the photos. The
way her head is tilted forward balanced by her reaching arms and the
extension of the veil leading to the helping hands of her mother.

You would see the connections and the shades of grey in the revealing light.
You would see the emotions, the story.

—Jimmy