About Us

Jeremy Butler set up a darkroom in his parents' utility room while in high school in Phoenix, around 1970. He pestered his friends relentlessly and ruthlessly throughout the 1970s--constantly thrusting the camera in their faces.

In the 1980s, Jeremy began shooting more color film. He had no access to a black-and-white darkroom and so the impetus to shoot B&W gradually faded. And he was an early convert to digital photography as the 20th century came to a close. As time went by, life took him away from still photography as he became a professor of film and television at the University of Alabama.

In the 2010s, as a retired professor emeritus, his interest in still photography reignited. He started taking online classes in digital photography and created a gallery for his early work at bw1970s.com. This gallery initially contained only black-and-white images from the 1970s, but it is now also the home for his most recent efforts.