Complex sentence: Our work owes compositional and palette debts to some modernist painters but "neo-modernism" would be a tautology and besides photographic modernism mandated black and white prints and we all love working in colour.
Split into simpler sentences: Our work owes compositional and palette debts to some modernist painters but "neo-modernism" would be a tautology. Moreover photographic modernism mandated black and white prints and we all love working in colour.