Concrete – raw and minimal black and white photography by Bastien Pons
Concrete is often overlooked — too ordinary, too grey, too hard. But in this black and white photography series, Bastien Pons reveals concrete as a living surface: full of scars, pores, cracks, and silent tension.
Through tight framing and abstraction, these images turn sidewalks, walls, and brutalist fragments into poetic textures. The emphasis is not on architecture, but on materiality — what concrete feels like, how it breaks, how it absorbs time.
Stripped of color, these minimalist compositions highlight contrasts between smooth planes and fractured lines, dense shadows and diffuse light. Some images are almost silent. Others seem to hum with invisible weight. Every frame invites slowness, attention, and physical response.
Rooted in his background in electroacoustic sound, Pons treats concrete like a waveform — a textured memory of impact, erosion, repetition. He captures what we usually walk past without seeing: the quiet drama of surfaces that endure.
This series is a meditation on brutal beauty, perfect for those who love abstract black and white photography, urban minimalism, and textural fine art. Here, concrete becomes more than a material — it becomes a skin, a trace, a presence.