Inspiring Black And White Captions For Instagram

If you’re posting black and white photos, you’re going to need some black and white captions for Instagram!

There’s something timeless about black and white photos, and they aren’t something you often see on the social media platform.

This means they can help you stand out in a sea of color photos on the Instagram feed.

So here are some ideas for black and white captions for Instagram!

Black and White Pic Captions

These captions are perfect for capturing the mood of black and white photos!

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1. Life is better in black and white.
2. A world without color.
3. Black and white mode.
4. Everything looks better in black and white.
5. Beauty in a monochrome landscape.
6. The world in black and white.
7. In the shadows.
8. Black and white transforms a photo into something beautiful.
9. The world doesn’t need color.
10. Black and white vibes.
11. The world through a black and white lens.
12. Think in monochrome.
13. See things differently.
14. Collecting monochrome memories.
15. Don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like.
16. Black and white dreams.
17. Capture moments in black and white.

Related: Dark Captions for Instagram

Short Black And White Captions For Instagram

Keep your captions short with these black and white captions for Instagram.

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1. Monochrome stories.
2. Light + dark.
3. 🖤🤍
4. ♥♡
5. ⚪⚫
6. Hints of gray.
7. Less noise.
8. Monochrome moments.
9. Monochrome memories.
10. Subtract color.
11. Black | White.
12. Black + White.

Related: Two word captions for Instagram

One Word Caption for Black and White Pics

Let your black and white photographs do the talking with these one word captions.

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1. B+W
2. Monochrome.
3. Timeless.
4. Classic.
5. Contrast.
6. Simplicity.
7. Colorless.
8. Vibes.
9. Shadows.
10. Clarity.
11. Experimenting.
12. Nostalgia.

Cute Black And White Captions For Instagram

If you’ve still not found the perfect black and white caption for Instagram, here are some more!

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1. Capture memories not color.
2. Today’s aesthetic: black and white.
3. Black and white mood.
4. Life in black and white.
5. Black and white magic.
6. Walking in a black and white land.
7. Take more black and white photos.
8. Finding meaning in black and white.
9. Less color is more.
10. Sometimes a photo just needs to be in black and white.
11. Black and white calls me.
12. Black, white and shades of gray.
13. In a world of color, be gray.
14. Ridding the world of all color.
15. Black and white makes you see differently.
16. When you take the color out of photos beautiful things happen.

Related: Classy captions for Instagram

Funny Black and White Captions

Add some humor to your Instagram feed with these funny black and white captions.

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1. 50 shades of grey.
2. Sometimes things ARE just black and white.
3. Who turned the color off?
4. Not everything is black and white, but this photo is.
5. #FFFFFF #000000
6. What’s black and white and all over Instagram? It’s me.
7. Accidently turned the color on my camera off.
8. Color: Off.

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Black And White Selfie Instagram Captions

Portraits can look great in black and white, so why not share a monochrome selfie!

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1. I see the world in black and white.
2. She’s a classic.
3. Let’s take a (black and white) selfie.
4. My black and white girl era.
5. You don’t need color to be bold.
6. Find me in black and white.
7. A soul without color.
8. A timeless classic.
9. Black and white beauty.
10. A girl made of light and dark.
11. Everybody looks good in black and white.
12. Pure light. Pure darkness.

Black and White Outfit Captions

These captions are perfect for showing off black and white outfits!

You can also check out my post on black dress captions too!

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1. Life isn’t black and white, but my outfit can be.
2. I’ll stop wearing black when they come up with a darker color.
3. There’s a reason black and white is timeless.
4. Black and white is my favorite color.
5. A little black (and white) dress.
6. Black and white. Classy. Like me.
7. On Wednesdays, we wear black and white.
8. You’re the yin to my yang.
9. Black and white looks good on me.
10. Black and white is always right.

Quotes For Black and White Photos

These quotes about black and white photography would make the perfect Instagram captions!

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1. “Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.” — Doris Lessing.
2. “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” — Vikrmn.
3. “The special factor about black and white photography is that it doesn’t just copy the reality, but it represents it with its own language.” — Gian Marco Marano.
4. “Although humans see reality in color, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.” — Peter Lindbergh.
5. “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.” — Jack Antonoff.
6.  In black and white, it’s the person who is important.” — Harry Gruyaert.
7. “The more I learn color the more I love black and white.” — Sajal Sazzad.
8. “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” — Elliott Erwitt.
9. “Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let color destroy this image.” — Patrick Summerfield.
10. “Black and white photography has the potential to make any photographer a better photographer.” — Rob Sheppard.
11. “In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.” — Anders Petersen.
12. “Life is like a good black and white photograph, there’s black, there’s white, and lots of shades in between.” — Karl Heiner.
13. “I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” — Mary Ellen Mark.
14. “Black and white can transform a scene into something magical.” — Rob Sheppard.
15. “In black and white, you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but the statement demands certainty.” — Paul Outerbridge Jr.
16. “In the beginning it was all black and white.” — Maureen O’Hara.
17. “Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?” — Ridley Scott.
18. “I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.” — Henri Matisse

Black and White Photography Quotes

There are so many great quotes about black and white photos that would make the perfect Instagram captions, so here are some more!

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1. “Color is everything, black and white is more.” — Dominic Rouse.
2. “A good color picture is usually a good black and white too.” — John Beardsworth.
3. “I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.” — Ruth Bernhard.
4.  “Black and white has an unsurpassed ability to convey character.” — David Prakel.
5. “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” — Jason Peterson.
6. “What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.” — Jennifer Price.
7. “With black and white photography, what you have to say counts more than the way you say it.” — Gian Marco Marano.
8. “To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” — Andri Cauldwell.
9. “Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” — Robert Frank.
10. “Emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” — Kim Hunter.
11. “There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.” — Stefan Kanfer.
12. “Good and bad times are like black and white color, incomplete without each other.” — Vikrmn.
13. “What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.” — Ruth Bernhard.
14. “Black and white images take you beyond what most people photograph.” — Rob Sheppard.
15. “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” — Ted Grant.
16. “Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.” — Joel Sternfeld.
17.  “I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.” – Benicio Del Toro.

Inspiring Photography Quotes

If you want some inspiring photography quotes that don’t mention black and white specifically, here are aome that would make great captions!

1. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” — Elliott Erwitt
2. “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” — Robert Frank
3. “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” — Ralph Hattersley
4. “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.” — Gilles Peress
5. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” — Elliott Erwitt
6. “Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.” — Helen Levitt
7. “Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” — Sally Mann
8. “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” — Ambrose Bierce
9. “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” — Destin Sparks
10. “Wherever there is light, one can photograph.” — Alfred Stieglitz
11. “Photography helps people to see.” — Berenice Abbott
12. “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.” — Kim Edwards
13. “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” — Steve McCurry
14. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” — Peter Adams
15. “Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.” — Andre Kertesz

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Black and White Photography Tips

Here are some tips for your black and white photographs!

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1. Increase contrast. When taking photos, look for dark and light areas to create contrast in your image. You can also increase the contrast using a photo editing app or the Instagram app itself.
2. Use filters. Use filters to edit your photos and to make color photos black and white.
3. Experiment with exposure. Over or under exposing your black and white photographs can change the mood of your photos. Try both and see what works best! This can also be done on Instagram or in a photo editing app.
4. Look for shadows. Shadows add contrast and can also add interesting shapes and patterns to black and white photos.
5. Use negative space. Negative space is an empty space in a photo such as a blank wall or a clear sky, and can work well in the simplicity of black and white photos.

Check out more tips at Amateur Photographer here!

Black and White Captions & Photography FAQ

Conclusion

Black and white is a great way to experiment on Instagram!

I hope you found the perfect black and white caption for your Instagram photos!