In any case I do love black & white and, yes, film too! My recent ventures into black & white have, however, turned out to be quite challenging, as I think it's really hard to take great black & white pictures which underline the very charm of not being in colour.
There is one guy who, in my opinion, is an absolute genius of black & white and on top of that, he shoots medium format! Here's one of my favourites:

His Flickr name is just great too: Maxim Chelak. I haven't worked out yet whether this is made up or his real name, he is Russian after all. No offense, but for my ears both sounds reasonable.
Here is another one which is really fantastic (and an absolutely beautiful model, lucky blizzard!):

If you find these pictures inspiring too, here are some more links to his photos and his website:
Website
Photograph
Edina Tokodi (her website)
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