I have used this image in July, (in colour), but am considering it as another photojournalism image for camera club competition. I know that the judge won't like the man on the left, walking out of the frame of the shot….. Here's the link to the same image in colour http://365project.org/dide/365/2015-07-17
Amazing and a bit puzzling! Would love to see this in colour as I missed it. I think you could appease the judge in advance by cropping a thin slice left vertically, and to balance the shape, crop a thin slice top horizontally.
I loved the colour version, but the b&w looks very dramatic. Know what you mean about judges though. Either as suggested above you could crop it or would it be possible to clone him out. You could pick up some of the lines from the area just to the right of him.
Both are wonderful images,but I like the color version better!With street shots I'm always very reluctant to crop ,if it's there -it's there!If it was me,I would leave the man on the left and rely on the lady's orange shoes strongly enough to grab viewer's attention and ignore the corners.
My first impulse was to crop, but then you'd lose the light-colored wavy building behind him. But on further reflection (pun intended), that building draws attention to the side of the photo. Try cropping on the left to the second set of squares so the man and building are gone, then brightening the whole photo.
Publish and be damned I say, it is a street image and you can't control everything. I love the distortions in this shot. But I do prefer the colour version.
